What's your response to people who say "history is always relative"?

by zoomClimb

I am understanding where this argument is coming from.

Depending on what source you read, who you ask, and where you live, a certain event in history may be portrayed very differently. Some truths are widely accepted, while others may be overlooked or lost.

It's like that social experiment where dozens of people pass around a rumor, and at the end, you likely hear that the original rumor has been greatly altered.

What do historians think of this?

voyeur324

The thread Do historians worry about modern people being too sympathetic to people in the past? has relevant answers from /u/commiespaceinvader and /u/Snapshot52.

/u/cordis_melum has previously written about reading sources critically

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