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Comment author: Val 28 February 2015 01:10:29PM *  7 points [-]

History.

A lot of people support their ideological views by popular history, which is full of biases.

Comment author: [deleted] 06 March 2015 12:25:52PM 0 points [-]

Yes, but it is not fixed by just randomly reading history. Many historians have political agendas, it is unfortunately a profession like that. The main reason is governments, systems needing historical legitimacy. So historians end up being loyal or opposition.