Should TV mess with history?

[fsn]

Well actually since long befoe that. I remember the documentary when he went back to see Robin Hood.

[toxicpixie]

Here's another historical conundrum. Some people have set off a bomb; they are terrorists! Some women called Suffragettes set fire to letter boxes, smashed windows in churches and other things besides; weren't they wonderful - we must celebrate them.

They were called terrorists and worse at the time. As were the Tolpuddle Martyrs, the Abolitionists and indeed anyone who threatens the status quo and the ruling elite of the time. Doesn't mean they were wrong, doesn't mean they're right. Just propaganda against change, label them as perjoratively as possible and demonise them.

Ofc that rather devalues the terms when you hit the real assholes.

[Ben Waterhouse]

They were called terrorists and worse at the time. As were the Tolpuddle Martyrs, the Abolitionists and indeed anyone who threatens the status quo and the ruling elite of the time. Doesn't mean they were wrong, doesn't mean they're right. Just propaganda against change, label them as perjoratively as possible and demonise them.

Ofc that rather devalues the terms when you hit the real assholes.

I think leaving bombs in railway stations constitutes terrorism, you may not of course. There is an argument that the suffragettes put back women's votes for years.

[Leman]

Well I think we all know that it was the peaceful persistence of the Suffragists, plus the impact of women's contribution in WWI that actually got them the vote, and not the suffragettes' shenanigans.