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Historical Criticism Quotes

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"Despite using coercive methods to extract wealth from the Congo, Leopold retained his international reputation as a philanthropist and an opponent of the slave trade."
"The deliberate scrubbing of the elements of fascism that make it so vile and horrible."
"The white moderate being a stumbling block against the emancipation of African-Americans."
"The power of the British Monarchy is derived from imperialism and colonialism."
"Stalin basically kills off almost every Marshal" - paranoia leading to military incompetence.
"The church believed that a woman altering her face in any way was a challenge to the Lord and his craftsmanship."
"I'm against superstition in a way that the Romans and the Greeks criticized it."
"Deep down, the Western Elites have remained the same colonizers."
"If I had to summarize what the communists did worse it was killing the most productive classes."
"Jesus Christ admittedly was not perfect when he was here on this earth so why are we deifying the founders of this country many of whom owned slaves."
"Yet another example of women being lied to unfairly bro she's been murdering innocent girls for literal centuries even if they were of Royal Blood it would still they'll be murdering innocent girls they have nothing to do with what happened to her."
"Malcolm X kind of called this out, you know."
"The failure of that experiment of communal service... proves the emptiness of the theory of Plato."
"McClellan talked the talk, but could he walk the walk? No, like Lincoln's other generals, McClellan was maddeningly cautious."
"The CCP's past 100 years of crimes against humanity."
"But rather than sabotaging peace talks in Vietnam that led to the needless deaths of hundreds of thousands while Kissinger."
"The treatment these children were subjected to is an absolute travesty and blight on humanity."
"Christopher Columbus was a tyrannical racist."
"A bloody stain on the history of this nation."
"Efficiency was sacrificed for flashy, unreliable designs."
"They quite literally Christopher Columbus'd that town, and like, I'd be mad too."
"Churchill will continue to be judged and analyzed through the ages for his failed decisions and unpopular attitudes."
"If you're talking morality, if you said it's just morality, show me at any time where the white man has been morally correct with us one fucking time."
"The notion that people who conquered and settled other people's land should get to retain it all for themselves is obviously problematic."
"Israel is a continuation of the tradition of racist European settler colonialism."
"If humanism had been the foundation, women and African-Americans would have had the right to vote from the beginning."
"Christopher Columbus... his most significant contributions were genocide."
"I'm not attacking Catholics... but pick up any history book that's not biased towards Catholics and you'll see the Catholic Church throughout history did some awful awful things."
"Sometimes it seemed like the British created slavery so that they could take credit for abolishing it"
"We bought our slaves from the nations around us, we treated them like property, we inherited them to our children who could make them property for life." - Scott
"Not even close. Everything about our history is off, wrong, turned around upside down."
"Seen today, James Buchanan's single term is like watching a clown car filled with nitroglycerin slowly roll toward an orphanage."
"People need to stop and learn to approach historical interpretations with nuance and critical thinking."
"If Lovecraft had had some Ray Cons, he wouldn't have been such a racist."
"If the CIA did Kill JFK that literally wouldn't make a list of the top 50 most despicable things they've ever done."
"The slave Bible stands as a reminder of how religion can be twisted and manipulated to justify cruelty and oppression."
"The church has been on the wrong side of every single civil rights issue."
"Orwell's gripe was that Wells naively believed in the natural progression of scientific progress as inevitably leading to a better world."
"The destruction of the vario painted ceiling for instance I think was an act of unbelievable vandalism."
"The great catastrophe of British government and British imperialism: Ireland."
"Most scholars agree that the text could not have been written by the historic Peter."
"Sacrifice is not the right word. They were lied to, suffering is correct." - Fayetteville Observer Myron B. Pitts
"The whole point of this was really to screw over and murder Indigenous Americans so Jackson could take their homes and take their land."
"America was built off lies, stealing, killing. You don't think that we're getting karma from that?"
"Orwell's greatest achievement was to have been brave enough to say... that what the Communists think is not just a deadly illusion but it's a poisonous delusion."
"Christopher Columbus, one of my favorite anti-heroes of history, one of the great fakes of all times... who discovered absolutely nothing."
"The problem is that the list contains many inaccuracies."
"You can't question history at all... it's tyrannical."
"The sympathetic angle may encourage us to view those criticisms in a more forgiving light than perhaps they deserve."
"Central Authority farming doesn't work, it led to the starvation of a hundred million people in Europe and China just last century. Let's not do this again."
"The church has a long history of doing this."
"A nation founded on genocide, theft, and slavery has no right to exist."
"The New Testament has a history and opponents of the Christian faith know this"
"Napoleon criticized the moniker, saying kings who were considered good were failures."
"They are basically building upon a long tradition in Germany of historical criticism."
"This is a fault of history, this is a major methodological fallacy that you often see in history."