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Old 09-28-2014, 01:21 AM
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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.
I guess that 45 years counts as generations, but barely. (Wikipedia says the neologism dates to the late 1960s)
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