[flowerplough]

Zot Zinn.

[AU72]

Zed is dead

[ensignbay]

My niece i high school was forced to read this crap, what Dennis Prager calls “a proctologist’s view of America.”

Liberals know that if they repeat a lie early and often enough, it will be perceived as fact. We have to fight back.

[Sherman Logan]

He began with the peaceful, generous island tribe who in 1492 paddled out in their canoes to greet a curious sailing vessel commanded by Christopher Columbus.

Leaving out the inconvenient fact that this peaceful people was in the process of being exterminated and eaten by invading tribes from the mainland, from whom we get the word "cannibal."

[Sherman Logan]

I have no problem with the “warts and all” type of history.

I object to the “warts only” version of American history.

It’s the balance that is missing. The evils and misdeeds of American history are, with rare exceptions, similar to those perpetrated by all other societies. A great many of the good things about Western Civ and America are, by contrast, completely unique. Notably the very idea of human rights and equality. NO other society has even conceived of this notion, which we take so for granted.

Surely these facts should be part of what is taught.

[Brugmansian]

he grew up in Brooklyn At the age of 17 he was knocked senseless by police at a Times Square political rally, and came to with a knot on his head and a new attitude. As he recalled it for students, in the graphic-novel adaptation of his life: "I was no longer a liberal, a believer in the self-correcting character of democracy. I was a radical, believing something was fundamentally wrong with this country."

Maybe he did change--perhaps from a Trotskyite to a Stalinist or some other shift within the communist movement--but the "cop hit me on the head" is typical of the lies communists tell.

[tophat9000]

History in no context is propaganda

[tophat9000]

History in no context is propaganda

Example:

Raw fact, Zinn served Air Corps during World War II on a bomber crew...

Therefore, raw fact: Zinn killed, women and children...

In Zinn’ s own "no context" style of history; Zinn is a villains arbitrary murder of women and children

In historical context, Zinn acted honorably during World War II