presentist

Adjective

 * 1) Of or pertaining to presentism; viewing the past with a perspective limited to present-day attitudes and beliefs.
 * 2) * '"Many people lost their perspective in their euphoria and became parochial and presentist." (Wellman and Hogan, 2004)
 * 3) * "To read him as defensively fashioning what we now call a "black identity" is presentist." (McWhorter, 2009).

Noun

 * 1) A follower of presentism.