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From OP: > We need Howard Zinn now more than ever. Not for the sake of romance or to construct another hero in history. We need his insights, his politics, and
by amirkdv 6y ago
From OP:
> We need Howard Zinn now more than ever. Not for the sake of romance or to construct another hero in history. We need his insights, his politics, and his commitment to the struggle for a better world.
Unless your position is that there is such a thing as an unbiased history or that Zinn presented historical falsehoods (not a usual position even among Zinn's critiques), I don't think the valid points you raise on the 1619 project rebut the thesis of the OP.
- Gimpei 6y agoThis feels like a reduction to either/or thinking. Sure all history is biased. Everything is biased. But I think you probably believe that some things are more biased than others. The argument above seemed to be that Zinn is more biased and this is perhaps less worthy of our attention than somebody who makes more of an attempt to reduce bias. Not taking a position on Zinn btw.
- Wohlf 6y agoHistorians will be the first to tell you there is no such thing as unbiased history, the difference is historians work towards reducing and identifying bias. If I remember correctly Zinn himself says at the beginning of his book he is writing with intentional bias.