Now this is consistency. A woman who remains a prison abolitionist after her friend was murdered by his spouse: https://twitter.com/yasminyonis/status/1001873831483592704 …
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Diamond has received an enormous amount of criticism and I'm interested in figuring out which of it is justified, since his books/ideas/perspective is very interesting in general. The criticism almost uniformly comes from entrenched academic anthropologists who have motive.
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so how do you wade through a swamp consisting of potential politically motivated attacks/false allegations, and also real methodological failures, some of which are due to naivety and others possibly serious flaws that would warrant rejecting his work.
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there was a big to-do about this story in particular, linking this because it was about the first thing that came uphttps://io9.gizmodo.com/5226368/jared-diamond-sued-by-new-guinea-natives-for-crimes-of-anthropology …
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sooooo I'm not the greatest internet detective out there, but I did a cursory attempt to follow up and see what became of the lawsuit. I found zilch. Nada. There is some suggestion that it was withdrawn without prejudice but afaict nothing became of it.
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the narrative control tactics are clear though. an activist with an ax to grind didn't like the implications of his reporting. arranged for a lawsuit to be filed (and later withdrawn). arranged a media blitz to publicize the filing of the suit and to embarrass Jared Diamond.
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didnt they do this to Changon too?
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