Friday, September 22, 2023

History of the war on "woke" history

In an Ottawa Citizen op-ed, Donald Wright, historian and president of the Canadian Historical Association, rejects Pierre Poilievre's crusade to save the Canadian past from "erasure." 

All of this is to say that culture wars are tiring, divisive and ultimately destructive, when what we deserve is an honest recognition that history is complicated, and always has been. And that’s a good thing, because no one wants to live in a society where there is only one version of the past.
 
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