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Note to Herbert: It's Not Radical At All, It's Centrist

mikethemadbiologist | February 6, 2010

A recent question posed by NY Times columnist demonstrates just how far to the Palinist right our political and social discourse has shifted: I always wondered why Howard Zinn was considered a radical. (He called himself a radical.) He was an unbelievably decent man who felt obliged to challenge injustice and unfairness wherever he found it. What was so radical about believing that workers should get a fair shake on the job, that corporations have too much power over our lives and much too much influence with the government, that wars are so murderously destructive that alternatives to…