Posted on 02/08/2020 7:18:42 AM PST by Kaslin
We would NEVER use those books here in Texas, NEVER! So why should I care?
Because they do in NY and LA and a lot of other places which is why the libtards are so stupid. In his behalf I don’t believe Zinn ever even tried to hide his motives.
“Because they do in NY and LA and a lot of other places which is why the libtards are so stupid. In his behalf I don’t believe Zinn ever even tried to hide his motives.”
Of course, I was imitating typical conservative reaction...probably by many here, and I strongly suspect that it is used throughout Texas.
As to him being open, I agree - and it’s right on the cover: “A PEOPLE’S History of the United States”...but no one on our side gave a crap, or his books would have been burned, rather than used on our kids.
Just another one of those “If you only knew how bad it really is.”
"What is truth? Truth is that which serves the revolution."
Zinn is the founder of the “Everything you know about America is wrong” school of thought.
The postmodernism world view is nihilistic to the max. It destroys everything it touches.
Unfortunately it’s taken over academia and spilling into the wider society.
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Zinn is one of the greatest examples of Cultural Marxism’s use of “critical theory” to criticize everything about America and conservatism, so that people will want a revolution. Like Saul Alinsky told his followers to “Rub the sore raw.” Zinn, like Alinsky, was an agitator who wanted to rile up a complacent people and to get them to want to destroy the American experiment.
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I had a professor who claimed to be the first in the country to add it to his syllabis. Lucky me. It could have been worse - my girlfriend at the time actually had Zinn as a professor.
First off, you end up rooting for Columbus to eliminate every one of these horrible people who got in the way of the West.
And don't forget, in the '09 edition, Zinn completely undercut Bubba's 8 years by saying the Emperor had no clothes, both literally and metaphorically. Zinn embarassed The Third Way as Socialist Lite.
The one chapter that did want to make you string Zinn up was WW2, where he had served and had outside the book acknowledged that the War had a "moral core"; so it is intentionally the dumbest chapter in the book, the most farcical, precisely because Zinn did not want to draw much analysis to the fact that he left out his idol Stalin's genocide.
But fear not! Zinn died of a massive heart attack in a hotel pool and had he been alone they'd have found his wrinkled bloated carcass the next morning. As it was, guests pulled him out and tried to beat the life back into him ie, he left this earth in suffering and he was concious of his demise. You can't wish anything worse on an atheist -- that it was 'all for naught' and you go out unable to breathe with your eyes popping out of your head and yet every synapse burns with energy and awareness.
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“that it was ‘all for naught’ and you go out unable to breathe with your eyes popping out of your head and yet every synapse burns with energy and awareness.”
All while his friends were beating the **** out of him. Thanks for bringing a smile to my face this snowy Sunday.
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“Zinn claims there is no such thing as a pure fact, but all facts are open to interpretation.”
Question: “Mr. Zinn, are you claiming the above quotation to be a fact?”
Zinn: “Of course.”
Question: “Then, by your standard, is that fact open to interpretation?”
Zinn: “Well, no, not that one.”
Question: “Didn’t you say ALL facts were open to interpretation?”
Zinn: “You misunderstood. I wasn’t speaking of facts that I myself assert.”
And on and on and on.
The contradictions by these idiots go way over their heads.
Have you read the books used in Texas? I’m serious. I read ALL the textbooks K-12 as my kids went through school here in Pennsylvania and all the ones used by the public schools were Marxist indoctrination (including math). They weren’t officially authored by Zinn but they might as well have been.
Yea, I say it sarcastically - people here think that if they live in a ‘wonderful’ school district with ‘high ratings’ that their kids are safe from being poisoned.
Idiots. And that’s why we can’t break up the monopoly - too many complacent CONSERVATIVE parents.
Complacent is right. We tried to get a group interested in starting a school because the school choices were so bad but had no takers, “our school is good, it’s those other schools that are bad”.
I tried talking to the teachers but they have no control over curriculum. It’s not their fault the textbooks tell kids the Pilgrims came here to spread disease and inclusive means ALL the storybook children live without fathers. Did you know homosexuals were oppressed in Medieval times? It went on and on.
BTW - I was the only parent who asked the teachers about the above examples. It was sad because supposedly these were very conservative other parents.
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