It doesn’t relate to your response. It’s clear he didn’t read far enough into the article (perhaps not past the headline) to see Smiley’s point in regard to slavery, which turns out to be related to the earlier conversation about federal standards. On that basis I wouldn’t bother engaging any further, or at least backtrack one fork down the road so that you don’t waste time arguing over a dead end [ETA: Hillary’s “Robert Byrd thing” is another ridiculous dead end]
Me, I’m taking Max as finally helping answer a question I and many other students of 20th century history have had for a long time. There’s value in that.
