Was listening to Razorfist's arcade stream from last Friday - https://youtu.be/TmTY2d7nwAs
In it he talks a little bit about General Patton and how he was possibly assassinated due to his anti-Communist views.
Found that interesting and went to wikipedia where it doesn't talk about that - but has a whole section about "views on Race" where the writer declares him a racist. https://archive.ph/aww7m
Individually they were good soldiers, but I expressed my belief at the time, and have never found the necessity of changing it, that a colored soldier cannot think fast enough to fight in armor.
And then the writer goes on with THIS nugget
He also stated that performance was more important than race or religious affiliation:
I don't give a damn who the man is. He can be a Nigger or a Jew, but if he has the stuff and does his duty, he can have anything I've got. By God! I love him.
Which sounds completely anti-racist to me and, gasp, someone who believes in the merit of a person!
The section goes on to say he's also an anti-Semite and anti-Russian
The obvious question is WTF does this have to do with an objective AND NEUTRAL historical scholarly article - answer is NOTHING. But this garbage is appearing on more and more figures pages to retcon history.
That led me to the next check - a copy of wikipedia was made about 6 years ago, Infogalactic.com precisely because of this revisionist history even then.
Here's the infogalactic page as it was originally pulled from wikipedia in 2016 (with a few minor edits earlier this year) https://archive.ph/wip/ZHdWA
Note there's no race section.
Note also the section about the assassination controversy for his anti-communist viewpoints that is now omitted from the wiki page.
A lot of people don't seem to realise that - until a bunch of zealous CofE types got involved - I'm not even christian, but that was such a fundamental part of their thinking that it's not fair to omit it - slavery was a global constant. Prior to that little bit of enlightenment, it would have been weird for somebody in power to not have slaves.
Except in the UK, where, even before we gained the power to impose our sensibilities upon the world, we held the practise to be distasteful within our own borders. Amusingly, our centuries-long crusade against slavery may all have started as a post-Conquest cash grab by William I. The thought of some Royal slush fund turning into a global crusade does still amuse me...
Yes, so it was called "indentured servitude" instead. But the real problem with that was with the debt-holders not being honest with how much work they wanted from the debtors straight-up, and stringing them along forever. Or worse, pulling the company store trick of "deductions" for every fucking little bullshit thing.