Someone: [oversimplifies a historical concept]
Someone else: THIS IS NOT TRUE, I READ AN ARTICLE ON CRACKED ONE TIME AND THE TRUTH IS [blatant oversimplification on the other end of the spectrum] [links to medievalpoc]
Five hundred people: oh my gosh, wow, I had no idea! Historians are bigots and idiots!
Marginalized historians, slowly suffocating to death under their heaps of research which show that history is deeply complicated: [look into the camera like they’re on the office and breathe their last]
And that’s why Abraham Lincoln was actually a black woman.
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