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Keith Windschuttle (born ) is

Keith Windschuttle — is an Australian right-wing historian BA University of Sydney in , journalist and former editor-in-chief of the Quadrant literary magazine. Formerly a follower of the New Left , Windschuttle later shifted his views to the right-wing in the s onwards. In , he founded a small-press publishing company called Macleay Press.

In , Windschuttle wrote a book called The Killing of History , where he accused literary and social theorists of obscuring facts and replacing traditional history to suit their political agendas. Two years later, he self-published a book titled The Fabrication of Aboriginal History: Volume One: Van Diemen's Land , where he accused "orthodox" historians of deliberately fabricating accounts of genocide against Aboriginal Australians in Van Diemen's Land present-day Tasmania.

Afterwards, Windschuttle wrote a few more books criticizing historians for allegedly supporting a "black armband" view conveying the message of white guilt. In , Windschuttle published a third volume denying the racial motivations behind the removal policy involving the Stolen Generations , where indigenous children of mixed descent were removed from their families to be adopted by white families.

However, his claims were dismissed by the filmmakers, professor Robert Manne and Molly Craig's daughter, Doris Pilkington Garimara as a politically-motivated attempt to slander the girls and downplay the Stolen Generations. Fighting pseudoscience isn't free. From RationalWiki.