Abe Sokolov wrote:
Re: "Hey - let's all calm down and take
a deep breath. Now please be
nice to one
another!"
-- mav
I'm already calm, so I don't need to take a deep breath. I'm just
sitting here at my desk, kind of tired after not getting much sleep,
looking over some papers and research, checking e-mail in various
accounts, checking news sites, and the like.
But I am fed up with Wikipedia, though, and especially people like
Stan and Fred. I doubt that I'll be able to be nice to either of them
until they stop spreading these lies about me being a Stalinist...
I've never said you were a Stalinist. I do think you're heavily biased;
you always have an excuse or apology for a leftwinger's action, and
are always ready to blame a rightwinger for engaging in exactly the
same kinds of actions. As it happens, there's a strain of academic
history for which this degree of bias is considered normal, and another
strain on the rightwing side too; an unfortunate state of affairs. It's
gotten so bad these days that you can't usefully read anything on
20th-century history before finding out the left/right bias of the
writer.
Stan
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I disagree - you can always tell the POV of the writer by reading the
book. I can only think of one book on East Germany for example that
isn't propaganda for either side.
Caroline