I suppose this all depends on what you mean by "political correctness" and "real history."

History is always being studied and viewed according to the values of the contemporary time period. You'll find lots of examples of narratives that commonly existed in one form and then were changed with the advent of Marxism (which placed increased focus on the working class participants and tended to frame events in terms of how they may have moved the population towards economic revolutions), and then changed again as revisionist historians put more energy towards microhistories (studying pinpoint events and lives instead of trying to fit everything into a wider story of cause and effect). This happens all the time with different historiographic trends and developments in academic study.

We tend to view new updates as more accurate and "real" simply because we're living within the culture that supports the values being represented. That doesn't necessarily mean that the previous representations of history were clouded by political correctness - It's more like the current reincarnation feels more genuine to us because it mirrors our own beliefs instead of that of our parents or grandparents.

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