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From: lisa@mit-vax.UUCP (Lisa Chabot)
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Subject: Re: History and homosexuality
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Date: Sun, 15-Jul-84 18:39:15 EDT
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sharon badian = >

> 	History is recounted by historians, people who have
> there own prejudices and their own innate sense of "right."
> Therefore history is biased, extremely biased in some cases.
...
>	Quoting history is largely useless unless you go back
> to the primary documents. Otherwise the historian's bias can
> make you think whatever he/she wants you to think.

Good point, but even if one does go back to the primary documents, care
must be taken to see the writers' biases there, too.  Conscious and
unconscious, and societal biases.

"Sire, your kingdom is filled with roses!"
L S Chabot

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