holyposition: (seriously some sun on his face)
Tim Laughlin ([personal profile] holyposition) wrote in [personal profile] kobes 2024-08-22 05:59 pm (UTC)

You did read it, right? The Civil War had just ended, there were a lot of people on the losing side still angry.

[ Tim just settles, unpinning, but still sitting on him. Really regular behavior and not at all an indication that he’s getting way too comfortable here. ]

People like to think history is objective, but it isn’t. Not everyone gets the opportunity to tell their story, every writer has a point of view of their own, even when they have all the primary sources in the world. Sure, certain events did objectively happen, but you can contextualize it a bunch of different ways.

[ A beat. ]

Not to defend the slaveowners, obviously. But if they’d won, the tone of that book would be completely different, even the parts before the war.

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