I've listened to interviews with him and it seems like he uses way more academic rigor than most academics. He goes through the citations/footnotes of scholars and often finds that they are misrepresenting or straight up lying about what the primary source says. So if that's being an "amatuer pop historian" than I guess I'll take it over most of these NATO shill historians.
He has a similar reputation to BadEmpanada it feels like. They're both accused of being unhinged hacks by liberals and some leftists but when you read/watch their actual work it's like them eviscerating their opponent's arguments without any possibility of a defense. Is Furr a Stalin obsessed "Tankie"? Sure. But if he effectively debunks the official narratives of anticommunist propaganda all the time, maybe we should all strive to be unhinged Tankies?
Pointing and laughing at Furr feels like an ad hom cop out to me. If anybody can give me an actual reason to laugh at Furr I'm genuinely willing to hear it. I mostly just see vague gesturing though
I've listened to interviews with him and it seems like he uses way more academic rigor than most academics. He goes through the citations/footnotes of scholars and often finds that they are misrepresenting or straight up lying about what the primary source says. So if that's being an "amatuer pop historian" than I guess I'll take it over most of these NATO shill historians.
He has a similar reputation to BadEmpanada it feels like. They're both accused of being unhinged hacks by liberals and some leftists but when you read/watch their actual work it's like them eviscerating their opponent's arguments without any possibility of a defense. Is Furr a Stalin obsessed "Tankie"? Sure. But if he effectively debunks the official narratives of anticommunist propaganda all the time, maybe we should all strive to be unhinged Tankies?
Pointing and laughing at Furr feels like an ad hom cop out to me. If anybody can give me an actual reason to laugh at Furr I'm genuinely willing to hear it. I mostly just see vague gesturing though
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