Re:For 11 Years, the Soviet Union Had No Weekends
by jschwartzi on Sunday October 07, 2018 @02:11PM
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> About books, that's the problem, they're all biased in one way or another.
This is no excuse for not becoming more educated on the subject if you are ignorant. Every source is full of bias. That's why reading more than one book on the same subject is a worthwhile endeavor, because even a supposedly objective history is full of some editorializing of the events. The trick is to recognize when the author is editorializing and when they are presenting the events as they happened, and to take the editorializing as the author's point of view and the events as factual unless proven otherwise.
Disagreeing with someone's opinion about something does not require you to disagree with their presentation of the facts.
This is no excuse for not becoming more educated on the subject if you are ignorant. Every source is full of bias. That's why reading more than one book on the same subject is a worthwhile endeavor, because even a supposedly objective history is full of some editorializing of the events. The trick is to recognize when the author is editorializing and when they are presenting the events as they happened, and to take the editorializing as the author's point of view and the events as factual unless proven otherwise.
Disagreeing with someone's opinion about something does not require you to disagree with their presentation of the facts.