Critical Thinking

[Hekate]

7. You make some critical points here. What I've found disheartening at DU is a tendency to trivialize

...JFK himself, along the lines of: He wasn't all that, so he's nothing at all. Cold Warrior got conflated with Didn't Care About Civil Rights or the Poor, in one post. (Which is kind of stunning when you recall how many African-Americans wept openly at his death, and all that weekend.) There were certainly others, written by people who were not alive then but they read a book or watched a docu-drama.

But my observations about that trend are only a side-issue to your very good essay on critical thinking. We desperately need more of it here -- your last paragraph on DU as a grass-roots think tank is key. Thank you.