It is not a pleasant place to live. It divides me from people who I consider to be intellectual ancestors—and not just over this. For if we find their thinking simplistic and overly general here, why not the same with the populists? With the railroad strikes? What else was simplified?
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Ta-Nehisi-Coates, A Quick Follow Up on Howard Zinn
As someone who is constantly receiving new information on the tiniest things each day, all competing with each other, I can’t tell you how much I appreciate that TNC doing the work of reading and thinking deeply into a topic and then be willing to let that change him. Being open to being wrong is the hardest thing to do, especially in an intellectual or policy place, and I wish more people, including myself, honestly dealt with that, even if it doesn’t change your convictions.
