dehistoricizing

Verb

dehistoricize (third-person singular simple present dehistoricizes, present participle dehistoricizing, simple past and past participle dehistoricized)

1. (transitive) To separate or remove from history; to deprive of historical context.
   • Because the stunts disassociate these effects from their usual context, Jackass mimics state violence only to dehistoricize and depoliticize it.2022, Marisol Cortez, “Ambivalent Anality: Revisiting the Queer Ecology of "the Jackass Moment"”, in Media+Environment