{"id":44430,"date":"2018-08-29T02:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T06:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=44430"},"modified":"2018-08-08T10:54:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T14:54:39","slug":"out-of-context-how-to-make-bad-history-worse-world-war-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/08\/29\/out-of-context-how-to-make-bad-history-worse-world-war-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of Context: How to Make Bad History Worse | World War 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M4m_BwYeIRo\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Knowing Better<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 5 Mar 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Churchill was a genocidal maniac. The Japanese were rounded up into concentration camps. FDR let Pearl Harbor happen. When you take history out of context, you can make it say whatever you want &#8211; including making bad things worse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A long list of links to sources is included, but I&#8217;m too lazy to re-link &#8217;em all, just go to <em>YouTube<\/em> to see them. Back in 2009, I did a short fisking of <a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/09\/02\/speaking-of-historical-revisionism-heres-pat-buchanan\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pat Buchanan&#8217;s hit-piece<\/a> on Churchill&#8217;s &#8220;reponsibility&#8221; for the outbreak of WW2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knowing Better Published on 5 Mar 2018 Churchill was a genocidal maniac. The Japanese were rounded up into concentration camps. FDR let Pearl Harbor happen. When you take history out of context, you can make it say whatever you want &#8211; including making bad things worse. A long list of links to sources is included, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[331,4,1118,7,23,24,5,13,230],"tags":[347,866,815,864],"class_list":["post-44430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-britain","category-germany","category-history","category-india","category-japan","category-military","category-usa","category-ww2","tag-debunking","tag-fdr","tag-hawaii","tag-winstonchurchill"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-byC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44431,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44430\/revisions\/44431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}