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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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 There is some suggestion that it was withdrawn without prejudice but afaict nothing became of it.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 arranged for a lawsuit to be filed (and later withdrawn).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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oh for fuck's sake that's part of the smear campaign against Ed Wilson they went after his supporters too
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if the wiki page is on target (who fucking knows, right?) its for the same reason: suggesting that "the noble savage" is a bullshit myth and tribal peoples are emphatically violent and patriarchal too
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I rejected his work in the foreword when he was all "intelligence isn't genetic and works the same for all races" and "new guineans are smarter than wypipo, for reals, 100%" within three sentences of each other.
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which book? I've read GGS and Collapse, but it's been some years.
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GGS, I never troubled with him after that.
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I like to actually finish books and then figure out what specifically is wrong rather than dismiss them based on just one bad sentence, but to each his own
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this is like watching a whole anime series after 3 bad episodes, life's too gd short, man
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Heuristics Exist
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I dismissed the entire Laurell K Hamilton series about Anita Blake because I opened a random book to a random page and found a scene where Anita Blake was fucking a were-ocelot I don't know if that's unreasonable but if so I am prepared to own it
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