I would have said it was @DamonLinker 's response
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Replying to @seatacAtMcDnlds @HeerJeet
He may not have read it yet, and I do like to think of myself as the last of the centrist liberals rather than a conservative. But maybe I am a sort of conservative again. Who knows.
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Replying to @DamonLinker @seatacAtMcDnlds
Yeah, I don't think of you as a conservative.
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Replying to @DamonLinker @seatacAtMcDnlds
I'll say that I'm puzzled by your notion that 1) there's something dubious about relying on post-2008 scholarship 2) the basic ideas are new (in fact criticism of slavery & settler colonialism as constituent to USA go back centuries).
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Replying to @HeerJeet @DamonLinker
There's a question raised by relying on post-2008 scholarship - giving undue weight to the vissisitudes of a narrow point in time.
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Replying to @seatacAtMcDnlds @DamonLinker
On the other hand, for the vast majority of American history, scholarship was dominated by people who thought blacks were inately inferior and deserved enslavement (the Dunning school & its precursors).
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Replying to @HeerJeet @DamonLinker
yes, also a very good point. But 2008 seems a suspect point where suddenly all became reliable.
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Replying to @seatacAtMcDnlds @DamonLinker
I wasn't the one that made 2008 a marker of trustworthiness. I will say that history is a cumulative discipline where newer works absorb the critiques made of older ones.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @DamonLinker
such an arbitrary recent cutoff makes me suspect these very recent works chosen precisely because they did *not* absorb any wisdom happening to be in older ones, tho they may have absorbed the critiques of the older ones.
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Honestly, I journalists far too often rely on the supposed wisdom of dated scholarship (Hofstadter on the populists say) in a way that is harmful. When dealing with cumulative disciplines, it's really best to start with up-to-date work.
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