Historical writing can either correct or intensify group hatred

Evidence

Recorded memory, that is historical writing, may serve as a corrective to the distortions of primitive hatred. It may also, in certain circumstances and in certain hands, serve to deepen and intensify it. Here again the same regions provide tragic examples. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1044

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1044
• XREF: connects to: Suspended ethnic hatreds revived rather than being consumed by war — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1605