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    86 KB Goodnight Sweet Prince. Anonymous of College Park,MD 01/27/10(Wed)19:42 No.78216  
    >Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and a leading faculty critic of BU president John Silber, died of a heart attack today in Santa Monica, Calif, where he was traveling, his family said. He was 87.

    >"His writings have changed the consciousness of a generation, and helped open new paths to understanding and its crucial meaning for our lives," Noam Chomsky, the left-wing activist and MIT professor, once wrote of Dr. Zinn. "When action has been called for, one could always be confident that he would be on the front lines, an example and trustworthy guide."

    >For Dr. Zinn, activism was a natural extension of the revisionist brand of history he taught. Dr. Zinn's best-known book, "A People's History of the United States" (1980), had for its heroes not the Founding Fathers -- many of them slaveholders and deeply attached to the status quo, as Dr. Zinn was quick to point out -- but rather the farmers of Shays' Rebellion and the union organizers of the 1930s.

    >As he wrote in his autobiography, "You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train" (1994), "From the start, my teaching was infused with my own history. I would try to be fair to other points of view, but I wanted more than 'objectivity'; I wanted students to leave my classes not just better informed, but more prepared to relinquish the safety of silence, more prepared to speak up, to act against injustice wherever they saw it. This, of course, was a recipe for trouble."

    Howard Zinn (1922-2010)

    Source: http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/01/howard_zinn_his.html
    >> Anonymous 01/27/10(Wed)19:43 No.78238
    /lit/ first major loss. Goodnight, sweet Zinn.
    >> Anonymous 01/27/10(Wed)19:49 No.78358
    What a shame.
    >> Anonymous 01/27/10(Wed)19:51 No.78386
    and nothing of value was lost.
    >> Anonymous of College Park,MD 01/27/10(Wed)19:52 No.78410
    >>78386
    >and something of value was lost.

    Fixed.
    >> Wormwood !!9X68cqGBvEg 01/27/10(Wed)19:56 No.78517
    Dammit. This is a sad loss. Thanks for clearing up history for us, Zinn. I enjoyed many of your books and essays.
    >> Anonymous 01/27/10(Wed)19:58 No.78578
    Chomsky will be next. He's like two years younger than Zinn.
    >> Wormwood !!9X68cqGBvEg 01/27/10(Wed)19:59 No.78600
    >>78578
    Please don't break my heart.
    >> Verus Minutor Virsolemnitas !Zf5Qeu8ZUA 01/27/10(Wed)20:00 No.78601
    /lit/ knows where the whole "Goodnight Sweet Prince" is from right?
    Hamlet
    >> Anonymous 01/27/10(Wed)20:03 No.78661
    Goodbye, Left.

    Who will the Left have after Chomsky and Zinn? Zizek? Pffft.
    >> Rory Gilmore !5opqLl5aI6 01/27/10(Wed)20:04 No.78678
    :(
    >> Anonymous of College Park,MD 01/27/10(Wed)20:05 No.78700
    >>78601
    I did not know that until now.

    That catchphrase originally was first used by /b/, as a form of trolling when some one is presumed to be dead in real life. Only rarely it's used when someone actually dies.

    The most recent use in reality is when Michael Jackson died during the summer of 2009. The title of /b/ was temporary changed to "Goodnight Sweet Prince" in response to his death.

    Now you know.
    >> Anonymous 01/27/10(Wed)20:07 No.78737
    RIP.
    >> Anonymous 01/27/10(Wed)20:11 No.78833
    Good fucking riddance to a well meaning, but ultimately destructive, educated idiot.

    History should never be written with political axes to grind, but Zinn begat a generation of "historians" who do nothing but that.

    Rather than presenting "peoples' histories", Zinn and his myopic ilk produced sectarian histories in which events were parsed according to the political whims of the writer and the unifying whole was lost in the rush to score points in squabbles over centuries old grievances. While there most certainly ignored peoples and untold stories, under Zinn's example the pendulum swung much too far.

    Thanks to Zinn and his ilk, we no longer have HUMAN history. Instead, we have tons of wildly sectarian, absurdly focused, "The Role Of Left Handed, Red Headed, Lesbian Inuits in the Meiji Restoration" history.

    Fuck you, Zinn, it's a shame you were ever published.
    >> Anonymous 01/27/10(Wed)20:13 No.78861
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    >>78833
    >> Anonymous 01/27/10(Wed)20:14 No.78885
    >>78833
    >implying history hasn't always been written in this way
    >> Anonymous 01/27/10(Wed)20:16 No.78913
    >>78833

    Ladies and Gentleman, Glenn Beck.
    >> Anonymous 01/27/10(Wed)20:17 No.78934
    >>78833

    >History should never be written with political axes to grind

    LOL! Jews did 9/11.
    >> Anonymous 01/27/10(Wed)20:19 No.78955
    Today has been the worst day ever. Zinn dies and Australia bans small breasts.

    Fucking terrible.
    >> Anonymous 01/27/10(Wed)20:20 No.78981
    >>78955

    Awesome! I hate small breasts.
    >> Anonymous 01/27/10(Wed)20:21 No.78992
    >>78955
    Yeah what's up with that small breast shit.
    >> Anonymous 01/27/10(Wed)20:22 No.79008
    >>78981
    You are a terrible person.

    >>78992
    Australia is insane.
    >> Anonymous 01/27/10(Wed)20:25 No.79055
    >>78955

    A bad day indeed.
    >> Anonymous 01/27/10(Wed)20:25 No.79061
    >>78601
    Said by Horatio at the end, right?

    Seriously, the only reason Hamlet remains Shakespeare's most influential play is because it's filled with more badass one-liners than any other.

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