The malleable past: How easy is it to “fake” history? – Sean Munger
Denial of certain historical facts involves a misconception of what history is and how it works.
On the previous incarnation of my history blog, in December 2013, I did an article about the Rape of Nanking, the horrific orgy of violence visited upon the Nationalist Chinese capital when Japanese troops took it over in 1937. Months later I received a comment that I did not let through the moderation queue. The comment, very short, questioned: “But did Nanking really happen? Or is this Chinese propaganda?!”
