Zombie History
Zombie History Fake history is not a harmless mistake of fact or interpretation. Fake history is like the Zombies we see in mass media, for the fake fact, like the fictional Zombie, lives by turning…
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Zombie History
Fake history is not a harmless mistake of fact or interpretation. Fake history is like the Zombies we see in mass media, for the fake fact, like the fictional Zombie, lives by turning real events and people into monstrous perversions of fact and interpretation. It is a mistake that conceals prejudice; a mistake that discriminates against certain kinds of people; a mistake held despite a preponderance of evidence; a mistake that harms us.
Its effect is insidious, because we cannot or will not destroy those mischievous lies. Its pervasiveness reveals that prejudice remains its chief appeal to those who believe it. Zombie history is almost impossible to kill.
Some Zombie history was and is political, a genre of what Hannah Arendt called "organizational lying" about the past. Its makers designed the Zombie to create a basis in the false past for particular discriminatory policies. Other