Lies the Debunkers Told Me: How Bad History Books Win Us Over

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22. The purpose was quite plainly to draw a false equivalency, as others have pointed out.

There is no basis nor source for the article's premise other than to conflate the two and set up the "everybody does it" meme that is the authoritarian's best hope for the status quo. Zinn never made any claim to objectivity, he has stated this on many occasions. He says that he wrote it as some small counter to the highly sanitized and completely one-sided picture presented to us as fact for generations.

Let's be frank, everybody with a pulse knows the shit has begun to hit the fan and we're in for some real drama. The collapse of '08 was only the first big chunk to hit and the splatters continue and will grow in number over the next couple of years. If the groundwork is not laid now, there is a real chance that the inevitable changes will not go the way the winners want it to.

As we move closer to that edge of the unknown, the panic will continue to mount.