I'm going through the sourced materials in the American Holocaust book, (great title, by the way! not divisive at all!), and considering the sources, it's pretty obvious Stannard has an agenda, he's a "cultural materialist", an offshoot of cultural Marxism. But you knew that, you just didn't think I'd look 😉

Anyway, with as far as I've gotten, I can surmise the sources, the majority of them at least, point to textbooks published by "Berkley; University of California press". Seems a lot of anti-American sentiment comes out of Berkley. Just to appease my curiosity, I'm going to look deeper into this fellow, who, funny enough, cites his own works as well. That's pretty douchey

[–] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for being open minded and reading through! Even if it's through a biased eye and a bit of a snarky reply, I still appreciate it. I hope that you open up and consider the sources presented with an open mind.

I'll be looking forward to your assessment when you're done, and I'll do my best to receive it with an open mind as well.

[–] rug_burn@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

It'll be a while before I can read further but I do intend to read all of it. In my biased opinion so far, i reads like a propaganda piece, the words seleceted in some of the passages are used to elicit a response, but maybe I'll see differently as I continue. I do have a question, when you say "genocide", are you also including open conflicts? It's my understanding of the word that it would not, but I want to make sure, especially when numbers are involved, that we're using the same metrics.