We would NEVER use those books here in Texas, NEVER! So why should I care?
"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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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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“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.
Zinn and the art of Historical maintenance..................i.e. rewriting history
I also have a series on www.wildworldofhistory.com called “The Horrible History of Howard Zinn.”
It’s quite a different take from the book that is mentioned here, including some background in exactly what is “Marxist history.”