Fake history is not a harmless mistake of fact or interpretation.
It is a mistake that conceals prejudice; a mistake that
discriminates against certain kinds of people; a mistake held
despite a preponderance of evidence; a mistake that harms us. In
the following pages, I liken fake history to the Zombies we see in
mass media, for the fake fact, like the fictional Zombie, lives by
turning real events and people into monstrous perversions of fact
and interpretation. Its pervasiveness reveals that prejudice
remains its chief appeal to those who believe it. Its effect is
insidious, because we cannot or will not destroy these mischievous
lies. Zombie history is almost impossible to kill. Some Zombie
history was and is political. A genre of what Hannah Arendt called
"organized lying" about the past. Its makers designed the Zombie to
create a basis in the false past for particular discriminatory
policies. Other history Zombies are cultural. They encapsulate and
empower prejudice and stereotyping. Still other popular history
Zombies do not look disfigured, but like Zombies walk among us
without our realizing how devastating their impact can be. Whatever
their purpose, whatever the venue in which they appear, history
Zombies undermine the very foundations of disinterested study of
the past.
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