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salvorhardin

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32. Sadly true

Reply to melm00se (Reply #30)

Mon Jul 30, 2012, 10:45 AM

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Lies the Debunkers Told Me: How Bad History Books Win Us Over [View all] salvorhardin Jul 2012 OP

This won't go well, but it is hard to read Zinn with cthulu2016 Jul 2012 #1

I completely agree salvorhardin Jul 2012 #2

The Article, Though, Sir, Is Still an exercise In False Equivalency The Magistrate Jul 2012 #3

agreed cthulu2016 Jul 2012 #5

Just finished reading the article, and was about to post this same point. Egalitarian Thug Jul 2012 #7

true and arely staircase Jul 2012 #20

my thoughts exactly Douglas Carpenter Jul 2012 #39

It's more polemic than history honestly Spider Jerusalem Jul 2012 #6

What a ridiculous article! Nostradammit Jul 2012 #4

The article is all blovation cthulu2016 Jul 2012 #8

Zinn's sin is writing from the wrong perspective. n/t Egalitarian Thug Jul 2012 #9

Writing from a single perspective is "polemic" bhikkhu Jul 2012 #16

That wasn't the purpose of the article salvorhardin Jul 2012 #10

Citing 'Reason', sir? The Magistrate Jul 2012 #18

reason magazine is great arely staircase Jul 2012 #21

The purpose was quite plainly to draw a false equivalency, as others have pointed out. Egalitarian Thug Jul 2012 #22

HNN's gotten pretty vile in the last year Posteritatis Jul 2012 #11

All of a sudden? salvorhardin Jul 2012 #12

There's always been a bit of a slant, but I did see a sudden, very sharp swerve. Posteritatis Jul 2012 #17

Gosh, historians have their points of view? Tierra_y_Libertad Jul 2012 #13

There's historiography and then there's lying salvorhardin Jul 2012 #14

One of my history profs said to History majors that studying history is a sure way to cynicism. Tierra_y_Libertad Jul 2012 #15

As the Man Said, Sir The Magistrate Jul 2012 #19

I would say that his description of King Phillip's war, to cite one example hfojvt Jul 2012 #24

Anyone who bases all their knowledge on one book is a lost cause Scootaloo Jul 2012 #27

but in this incident, it is not the right direction hfojvt Jul 2012 #33

I've got a quote here from a book you may be familair with... Scootaloo Jul 2012 #35

oh no, not the alarms hfojvt Jul 2012 #38

Actually, Zinn's talking about the war Scootaloo Jul 2012 #40

Exactly. nt raouldukelives Jul 2012 #34

I wrote this about Zinn's first chapter hfojvt Jul 2012 #23

Thanks for that salvorhardin Jul 2012 #25

Interesting that the article plays off the name of James Loewen's book Scootaloo Jul 2012 #26

I finally sat down to read Zinn about 10 years ago, threw it away after 3 chapters 1-Old-Man Jul 2012 #28

Consider the source of this squirt at Zinn. George Mason U is a nutter butter factory leveymg Jul 2012 #29

This thread leads credence melm00se Jul 2012 #30

Sadly true salvorhardin Jul 2012 #32

This is babble. bemildred Jul 2012 #31

It's safe to dismiss people who claim to be "objective" as liars Scootaloo Jul 2012 #36

Dumb liars. bemildred Jul 2012 #37