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Friday, December 14. 2007

"Excuse me while I throw up"

Howard Zinn, on the big screen. America-hating commie propagandists are so 1930s 1960s. Even Pete Seeger admitted (this year!) that he made a mistake by loving and defending Stalin all these years. Zinn, I suspect, still a Stalinist?
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Assertions by Mr. Zinn that he has never been too interested in being objective about his treatment of history should be justification enough to miss his new program. Participatory progressives must feel a calling to instruct us. After all, how could any of us possibly come to a proper understanding without their help and guidance? What would we do without them?
#1 Thalpy on 2007-12-14 11:14 (Reply)
ht Drudge, this is a long read--but worth it. This is the subject that your Howard Zinns will not discuss, other than to shout the code-word 'racism' at 'society'.

Politically, it is what the 50 years of Democratic Party control over urban gov't has done to urban minorities, via the Projects and the welfare, and the "crime is society's fault, not the criminal's" legal system.

Now look, just look, at the pretty mess they've made.

http://www.laweekly.com/news/news/la-gangs-nine-miles-and-spreading/17861/
#2 buddy larsen on 2007-12-14 23:16 (Reply)

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