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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (204525)	7/8/2021 7:47:18 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362741

I asked you what exactly Zinn lied about and once again you have utterly failed to deal with the issue. I'm guessing if you can't point to a single lie he told, there weren't any lies.

To: i-node who wrote (204525)	7/8/2021 8:18:54 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 362741

I will not discuss that with you because the entire fucking book got it wrong. That response is not helpful. It matters if Zinn included an event in the book that did not occur. That would be getting it wrong. If you know of such a thing, such as claiming that Dewey beat Truman and became president, I hope you would enlighten us. In which case I would agree with you that he got it wrong. I have not read the book. I didn't even know about it until recently. But I understand it to have been intentionally written from a non-standard perspective. Like the 1619 Project looking at history from a Black perspective. There are also history books written from a Christian perspective and perhaps others. All of those presumably are accurate as to the facts but they put a different frame around the facts, assign different meanings to the events. None of those is suitable for a public school history textbook. Textbooks need to be straight history. But the perspective histories are all interesting and important if one wants to understand the world. I seriously doubt that anyone is proposing using Zinn as a public school textbook. Ideally, thoughtful students of history would have their textbooks and would also read the various perspectives on the side. That would provide a fuller understanding of the world in which they live, not just which battle occurred on which date. You sound hysterical when you rant about Zinn just as you sound hysterical when you rant about CRT.