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Re:Why history is always political by kazinator on Friday December 27, 2024 @03:38PM (#42525825)
Bias is often just a product of human cognition: i.e. one of the cognitive biases. Your environment is political, so your cognitive biases are tinged with politics.
Re:Why history is always political by johnnyanmac on Friday December 27, 2024 @05:38PM (#42526725)
It's also just as simple as experiences. even if we could remove all bias, we don't know what we don't know. aspects like language barriers don't help either in terms of properly sharing such histories either.
Re:Why history is always political by tremon on Saturday December 28, 2024 @09:38AM (#42531310)
That's just stretching the meaning of the word "political" so broad that it ceases to have meaning at all. For an act to be political, it needs to engage with the environment with an intention to change or entrench it. If you include in your definition actions that are the result of a certain political climate, you have simply nullified the word.