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J. L. Bell said...

Are you unable to contemplate, Balz, that the debate over slavery in America was influenced by writers elsewhere in the world? Do you reflexively dismiss interpretations of historical events that might differ from your own as “revisionism”? Are you so resentful of intellectual work in California that you toss out schoolyard insults that have atrophied into cliché?

Never mind—the answers are as obvious as a closed mind. This collection of historical sources clearly threatens you. So much so that you not only didn’t dare to look at it, but actually took the time to tell people that you wouldn’t do so.

Aug 22, 2010, 6:29:49 PM

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