When institutions teach citizens that history should be understood primarily through political categories of oppression and identity, they don't merely reinterpret the past. They can change the standards by which claims about the past are evaluated in the present.
Evidence becomes secondary to narrative; skepticism becomes hostility. And eventually questioning an officially favored interpretation can itself become evidence of moral guilt.
So when Trump demands balance and historical accuracy from the Smithsonian, remember the Canadian example.
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