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Stop interpreting, you historians,
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and worst of all, stop revising."
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You notice how that word 'revision'
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has crept into our political culture?
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When politicians don't like the arguments of people
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who disagree with them they accuse them of being revisionist historians.
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It was even a poll-tested word for a while
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when Condoleezza Rice was using it.
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"Revisionist, revisionist."
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As though all history isn't revisionist.
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My favorite story about revisionism is my buddy,
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Eric Foner,