[jmorphy88]

Taleb is correct to call out this cartoon as the politically correct nonsense that it is. A saner society might agree with him and ask itself why, in the current day, history needs to be rewritten to be completely fictitious.

Taleb's persona, however, does not lend itself well to open debate over such issues, as he champions himself as being a lone iconoclast against the "IYIs". All we can do is enjoy the show, I guess.

[cabalamat]

> Taleb is correct to call out this cartoon as the politically correct nonsense that it is.

Agreed -- it's a bullshit attempt to re-write history.

> why, in the current day, history needs to be rewritten to be completely fictitious.

For example complaining the recent Dunkirk film has mostly white men in it... when that was true of the historical event it depicts.

[Bakary]

If anything the need to distort history is even clearer now, since it can be employed in devastatingly effective media narratives