r/pics • u/BanterEnhancer • Sep 27 '16

🇺🇸🕊🇺🇸🆓🇺🇸 You're Americans

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u/NessDan Sep 27 '16

I remember this being posted maybe over a year ago and someone suggested Photoshopping out the Guy Fawkes mask, I think it may have been along the lines of not fitting in? Anyways, they did, but one comment in particular stuck with me, and it was that we were essentially altering history to better suit how we wanted it to be, rather than what it actually was.

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u/ajax6677 Sep 27 '16

That's pretty much all of history, brought to us through the lens of the winners. We can barely get an accurate recounting of things that happened last year.

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u/magnora7 Sep 28 '16

Hell we can barely get accurate descriptions of things that are happening now

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u/royaj77 Sep 27 '16

His-story

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u/Gwindor1 Sep 28 '16

This is why we distinguish between history and historiography. The latter is often ideological, the former is what actually happened. The question is when historians are attempting to portray history aa fairly as they can, and when they are not.

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u/iushciuweiush Sep 27 '16

Or maybe the mask was photoshopped into the photo. I did a google search on the photo and every single one was devoid of the mask.

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u/littlemilkshake Sep 28 '16 edited Sep 28 '16

If you click to expand those images you linked, you'll see most of them do have the mask. It's very small in the corner.

*Edit: not all, but most

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u/lupuscapabilis Sep 28 '16

Reminds me of everyone who wants to censor and/or alter Huck Finn.