Again, it all boils down to power and using it to intimidate scholars like you into silence, or simply marginalize your voice & work so as to suppress certain truths.
Arthur Koestler was a celebrated historian & intellectual of his time BUT when he published THE THIRTEENTH TRIBE some European Jewish scholars went out of their way to cast doubt on his research with a few Zionists even labeling his book antisemitic.
"The history that is known frames the world.."
Well a good example, I think, is how Stalin & Hitler are perceived around the world - how their evil deeds are evaluated.
Stalin was more wicked than Hitler---he killed many more people Hitler. Yet we are allowed to publicly discuss his positives in terms of building up the Soviet Union BUT we are not allowed to do the same with Hitler's rule in Germany. Why?
Well, up until the 1800s, the Ottoman and Khazar traders were castrating European slaves. Our job on blogs like this is to ensure we expand the circumscribed Western framing.
The history that is known frames the world, you know. And if we embrace their surrept;;;itious framing, we’ll continue to get the current results. If we expand the narrative, we expand the reality .
Anyway I could go on with more examples but I don't want to be demonized & marginalized on LLC.
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