American History

» pink101 - Once again....

In response to Once again.... posted by BrianTubbs:
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From your next post: Steve, very thoughtful post. I will continue this with you. I have little to say to Pink anymore on this subject.
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Heh heh heh.
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You sidestep and ignore the POINTS made by Flynn - and instead just dismiss him as a "right wing nut."
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I thought I made it quite clear that I don't see Zinn as some kind of a hero that I want to champion. In fact, in response to your statement that my credibility was somehow non-existent, I wrote that "my credibility is not based on the idea that Zinn is not guilty of bias." We all are biased to some degree or another. Zinn's bias runs in a direction with which you disagree. So? Is it the firing squad for Zinn? You are being divisivie, Brian, trying to create sides for your team and "my" team and I don't have one. I understand that to be a common strategy that is gaining so much populariry during these times when conservatives are pushing so hard to kick against social progress in an effort to return us to less egalitarian times. People get all bound up in winner and loser games. I don't see understanding historical perspectives as being a winner or loser situation. Everyone has a right to have their ideas on the table here.
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You have dissed Zinn on your statements that he is a socialist and that he focuses on an historical perspective that is opposed to yours. Does that make your perspective any better? Does it make yours the only one worth consideration?
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:)
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My purpose is not to protect Zinn on every comment he makes--not at all; but, it certainly now appears with what you see to think was your "coup de gras" post that your purpose is to dismiss him as a person who should be givenj any credance whatsoever. It appears as though you want to destroy him as a historian of worth.
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I'll wager you are also anti-labor union as well.

-- posted by pink101