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wieson@feddit.org 1 month agoIt specifies the cultural application but broadens the temporal.
(To be more direct: not every first nation practiced that technique.)
Comment on it's true
wieson@feddit.org 1 month agoIt specifies the cultural application but broadens the temporal.
(To be more direct: not every first nation practiced that technique.)
cheesybuddha@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And thus is not a correction. It’s an added detail at best, or at least a change of topic. It’s not a corretion
Jtotheb@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Changing the past tense to present tense (these people and practices are still very real, they are not just part of “the past”) is a correction.
cheesybuddha@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No it is not.
One person is talking about the past. The other person is talking about the present
Jtotheb@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That is incorrect, like incorrectly referring to the agricultural practices only in the past tense, or incorrectly lumping all peoples who lived in the Americas prior to European colonization into one generic group. The fact that both viewpoints are not equally correct is what makes it a correction.