re: Civil War Confederate veteran interview

quote:

---

You’re too emotionally involved in the subject to recognize objectivity. You’re like a rabid Bama fan when anyone says anything other than sunshine pumping about the Nick Saban. They can’t see it. Neither can you.

---

Lol. I'm not the one railing about modern viewpoints man. You brought that up by yourself.

quote:

---

My sources are decades of study of texts, biographies, and autobiographies of the men from both sides, books from the perspective of both sides, touring the battlefields, discussing the matter with Civil War historians (really the best source IMO). But I didn’t just stop there, I’ve also spent a lifetime studying the decades before not only the Civil War, but also into Colonial times and the age of exploration.

---

Great. None of that amounts to 'objectivity.' Do you understand why?

quote:

---

And as for modern histories, I’d you were like me and not just lean on modern writings for understanding you’d see just how modern politics has infected what is supposed to be history in the past roughly 50 years. A good deal of what passes for history today is little better than revisionist propaganda.

---

You dumb shithead, I rely almost exclusively on first-person sources for most periods of American history. Hence why I invoked slave narratives, secession documents, etc.

And could you give me a specific example of how modern politics has 'infected' (here you aren't showing objectivity, you realize) history? A book, article, etc. Something specific. Because, given the quality of your arguments so far, I cannot give any real weight to your opinions.

quote:

---

A good deal of what passes for history today is little better than revisionist propaganda.

---

Great, so you should have some examples readily available.