Originally Posted by
barnesfoto
Well! A staunch leftist firebrand denounces the current president as mediocre?
Does this mean that all those comments about Obama being a "dangerous socialist" with a "far left agenda" currently being circulated by certain members of sick right wing cults are really hysterical nonsense? Just as the comments of right-wing nutjobs of 45 years ago about MLK being a "dangerous communist" were also nonsense?
Many of the movements that Zinn writes about were portrayed as dangerous and radical and "communist" at the time.
Zinn's critics forget that it was people portrayed as "dangerous radicals" by the ever hysterical American right that ended slavery, ended child labor, got women the right to vote, brought health and safety standards to the
meatpacking industry, gave us a 40 hour week and created the civil rights movement..just to name a few.
PS: Zinn's critics hold him high as a poster child for the idea that "left wing academics" dominate our nation's universities...
What do the critics of "Left-Wing Academics" have to say about the current employment of the intellectual architects of the Iraq War Fiasco as tenured academics in many of our nation's finest universities? Is this not a case of rewarding failure? [[see also:Failure, The ten worst ideas cooked up by academics, Neocons, Bill Kristol, Francis Fukuyama Robert Kagan, John Yoo)