I'm not sure if I agree to disagree. I have respect for historiography and I do not believe America committed aggression against Japan. In fact I think most claims that have been made of that are pretty ludicrous, even if it's true that Japan did act partially because they were backed into a corner. But that doesn't constitute aggression, and those who say that aren't making emotional claims - they're simply stretching the evidence.
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I regard PROPER historiography, based on actual evidence and not emotional claims as proper to the teaching of history and I believe furthermore, that if history is written correctly and preserve it for all time, we are properly utilizing it, but history is not a tool for political propaganda and shouldn't be used as such.
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Then why are you doing this yourself?
I mean, you're making an emotional claim about "the left" and you're speaking on terms obviously meant do disparage political positions of fictitious parties that supposedly represent it, and doing so in terms that are filled with very telling sloganized language - aka propaganda. Please check your bias at the door if you want to discuss academic norms, otherwise you'll be taken as engaging in nothing but political baiting, which I believe you currently are.