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Originally Posted by DrPhil
It is a play on words that has been used for generations.
Many people pronounce the word as "his-story" or "hisss-tory" instead of "his-tery."
And we all know that mainstream national history and international history minimizes or omits women, non-whites, and other demographics of people. If people are concerned with "politically correct" (I hate that phrase) then be concerned with that and work towards change.
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I guess that 45 years counts as generations, but barely. (Wikipedia says the neologism dates to the late 1960s)