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Comment author: billswift 12 June 2012 06:41:03PM *  9 points [-]

The actual history of every subject is "more complicated and messier than a lot of standard narratives", but no one has the time and energy to study everything, hence the "standard narratives". If there was one thing I would like to add to everyone's education it would be a caution about the common weaknesses of simplified knowledge.