Slightly historical

So the proposed re-enactment of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in Quebec has been scrapped.

Even though it would have been entirely accurate, if appallingly over-sensitive to the losers, it told a truth that was not pleasant to militant separatists. And nobody wants to in any way offend anybody in modern Canada.

Welcome to the wonderful world of historical revisionism. [snip]

So what other historical truths must never be mentioned for fear of hurting feelings?

That Africans themselves often sold people to white slavers and that long after slavery was abolished, particularly under African and Arab leadership.

Or that the Ottoman Empire's surveys revealed that very few people lived in the area later known as Palestine until the Jews returned to it, and that it was not considered a nation state or a separate political entity.

Or that after Israel had conquered Gaza and the West Bank it offered them back to Egypt and Jordan and both refused. [because Israel's (only) 'price' is that it be recognized.]

Or that the Crusades were not known as such until long after they had stopped and that they were merely a direct response to Islam's invasion of the Christian heartlands of North Africa and the Levant.

Or that Joseph Stalin killed more people than Hitler, that Che Guevara was a mass murderer.

Or that Galileo was a faithful Catholic whose patron was a cardinal and that Copernicus was a priest. [missed that one][snip]

There is a terribly politically incorrect joke about French roads being lined with trees so that Germans can march in the shade. This joke should never be re-enacted because it might cause offense to someone.

Trees perhaps.

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[Point: Revisionist history is rampant in every sphere dominated by the Left; media, government and worst of all (public) education. It erodes the very foundation of our society. So what to do? {tell me if you've heard any of these before}:

Media: internet not TV.
Government: pay attention and act.
Education: demand universal-unencumbered vouchers {and elect those who support}.

Big problems don't have push-button solutions, they have paths to recovery - traversed one step at a time...]