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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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 arranged for a lawsuit to be filed (and later withdrawn).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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the suit appears to have been originally filed in the UK, btw, which is kind of notorious for its lax libel laws
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oh ffs yeah anything filed in UK I assume is garbage
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and now we have no idea what the truth is. there's the real victim. we're just not allowed to attempt to learn new things anymore.
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your cynicism is causing me to revise a bunch of my beliefs and jesus christ I just dont know anymore
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I'm not a cynic! I'm a skeptic. When someone is accused of something I want to know what the results of investigation and discovery efforts turned up.
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