FLT-bird: “Troll 101”
Maybe, but for this: extraordinary claims require extraordinary sources.
If you are going to make extraordinary claims, then you’ll need to keep your sources & quotes handy and be very generous with posting them.
Once or twice may not be enough, several times may be necessary.
As for your source’s legitimacy, just expect that to be challenged and be ready with answers.
The fact is that virtually everything under the category of “Lost Cause Myth” is suspect, challenged and often dismissed by serious historians precisely because it’s never been fully confirmed.
So who’s the “troll” if you’re posting data you can’t really certify, even when challenged on it?
Maybe, but for this: extraordinary claims require extraordinary sources. If you are going to make extraordinary claims, then you’ll need to keep your sources & quotes handy and be very generous with posting them. Once or twice may not be enough, several times may be
necessary.
I already have both in this thread and in response to him before as well as to you and others before. Several times before.
As for your source’s legitimacy, just expect that to be challenged and be ready with answers.
We’ve all been through that drill several times already.
The fact is that virtually everything under the category of “Lost Cause Myth” is suspect, challenged and often dismissed by serious historians precisely because it’s never been fully confirmed.
The fact is that virtually everything under the category of PC Revisionist Myth is supsect challenged and often dismissed by serious historians. Most of it was wartime propaganda and its immediate aftermath which was not “rediscovered” until the current crop of 60’s Leftists started the long march through the institutions. It emerged when they started to be tenured professors in the 1980s.
So who’s the “troll” if you’re posting data you can’t really certify, even when challenged on it?
Oh but I have - several times. The troll is the one who tries to keep playing the same game I outlined above - as though we’d never seen trolling before and were going to fall for that one.