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revisionist

adjective as in deconstructionist

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But Borysenko, whose exclusive coverage of the event immediately preceded Alter’s firing, has herself repeatedly espoused extreme rhetoric on social media, even publicly embracing “fascism” and revisionist histories of Nazi Germany.

From Salon

In fact, a Confederate journalist by the name of Edward A. Pollard began working on a revisionist history book that painted the South as noble and slavery as unimportant to their way of life.

Order federal employees and historians to rewrite the “revisionist” history with language that exudes patriotism.

The starkest example is the embrace of a revisionist telling of the Capitol riots that plays down the violence that Biden-era Justice Department officials labeled as domestic terrorism.

From Salon

Although posing a revisionist challenge to “The Crucible,” “John Proctor” received the blessing of the Arthur Miller estate.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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