Comments on: Windschuttle and hoaxes http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2009/01/12/windschuttle-and-hoaxes/ The world of politics, policy and public life Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:09:14 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: liz ossemer http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2009/01/12/windschuttle-and-hoaxes/#comment-379 liz ossemer Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:59:55 +0000 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/bartlett/?p=261#comment-379 Yeah, I think you're right about our lack of acknowledgement or understanding of our history being a major barrier to eliminating inequality, but there's also the problem that once you do learn about it, feeling incredibly inadequate and powerless. In the absence of any decent political leadership on the issue it's hard to see the status quo improving. I don't understand how Windschuttle and the like have any credibility when there are so many historians whose work gives the lie to his drivel. Yeah, I think you’re right about our lack of acknowledgement or understanding of our history being a major barrier to eliminating inequality, but there’s also the problem that once you do learn about it, feeling incredibly inadequate and powerless. In the absence of any decent political leadership on the issue it’s hard to see the status quo improving.

I don’t understand how Windschuttle and the like have any credibility when there are so many historians whose work gives the lie to his drivel.

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