The Right Side of History™

How comfortable it must feel to know that your victory is assured.

[BabelTriumphant]

Ah yes, the "right side of history" argument, the adult equivalent to "I have an invisible forcefield."

[michaelvandeginste]

Also, telling someone that they're on the "wrong side of history" is meant as a threat--"You'd better cave to us now or we will see to it that you are punished later!"

[jake]

In uni, I was on my way to go to the on-campus pizza joint and I broke through a protest line to get my food. I was told I was on the wrong side of history, and I was like nah you guys are on the wrong side of the street, you need to get out of the way of my fucking dinner.

[cassiusbrown]

The Virgin "I'm on the right side of history" VS the Chad "My ancestors are smiling on me."

[jwt]

I've always felt that this phrase can only be interpreted as a thinly veiled threat. "We're on the right side of history because we intend to eliminate your side."

[chance_ondriezek]

When someone uses this phrase, I just hear “I think you’re wrong, but I don’t have any actual reasons”

[randomcrandoface]

"I'm on the right side of history" said the people who would get an F in History

[ChillyJack]

Everyone knows that genuinely good people are the ones who constantly have to remind everyone that they're the good guys.

[Galvvy]

There's also something hilariously common with this phrase, the people using it tend to also have the most surface level black and white understanding of history.

[Capsuleer]

I'm using my D&D campaigns to de-radicalized a few of my friends.

I've been running a series of campaigns over a few years now, each on taking place sometime after the last, and creating a grand history and timeline of the world.

As time progressed, their former characters have passed from living legends, to simple legends or folktales, and eventually myth; their existence being highly debated.

At one point a few of my friends got very upset that a Professor was basically slandering their old characters. That it wasn't fair to critique their actions using information gleaned during modern times.

They [past characters] didn't know the Orc tribes they scattered weren't invading but fleeing a draconic threat and environmental collapse. How would they have known?

But their complaints fell on deaf ears as the Professor said:

"True, in the past they [past characters] were regarded as heroes for countering Orc invasions. But we know better now that they were nothing more that bloodthirsty xenophobic conquers and nothing more."

Boy they did not like spending time hearing me speak ill of their old characters, no matter how good and heroic they were.

[Russian_Waifu]

The dystopia we grew up worrying about in the 80s and 90s would actually be nice compared to what we really ended up with.

[princepython]

“It says here in this history book that luckily, the good guys have won every single time. What are the odds?” -Norm MacDonald

[TurtleChad]

Daily reminder: It's perfectly ok to want to protect your culture, traditions, and people from outsiders.

[UltraGalaxyify]

"I expect history to be kind to me, for I intend to write history."
-Winston Churchill

[meg]

‭Proverbs 16:25
"There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death."

[DustBornKnight]

History is written by the winners. How fortunate that the Good Guys today have always won!

[LibertarianGalt]

They're afraid of confronting who they really are.

[realistic_delinquent]

“Get on the right side of history” is always and exclusively used in lieu of “let me HURT you”

[ajm]

I'm trying to remember the quote. It was a French ambassador from the 1960s I believe. He said that the 20th century set a VERY dangerous precedent: Victory in war is now rewarded with total moral purity and authority, while defeat is rewarded with everlasting repentance and the indelible mark of "villainous criminal". Thus, great powers of any future war will fight like brutal demons, knowing that defeat will mean a century of slavery and punishment.

[ClarenceJBoddicker]

It's the millennial, zoomer atheist equivalent of having God on your side