I know a lot of people respect David Landes, but he strikes me as very burdened by the prejudices of his generation
@PatrickIber Landes was just terrible on Israel/Palestine as well. Partially a generational thing but there's also a politics here.
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@HeerJeet Yes indeed - there ideological layers are so think that it's sort of out of beyond the scope of twitter -
@PatrickIber With Landes I'd say there is a kind of Cold War developmentalism at work. You might tease out in seminar. - Show replies
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@HeerJeet how many people are not terrible on Israel/Palestine? 5%? 1%?@PatrickIber -
@delong@PatrickIber Among academics? I'd say most people aren't as bad as Landes was. - Show replies
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