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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Still thinking about this. The closest experience I've had is my little sister's abusive ex endangering her life while they were driving on the freeway. She was mostly fine (some whiplash, obvious emotional trauma) but I nevertheless wanted to kill him.
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Apart from the fact that apparently the stories were fabricated I think about this from time to timehttps://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/04/21/vengeance-is-ours/amp …
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fabricated by Diamond or fabricated by his informants, who he naively believed?
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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 There is some suggestion that it was withdrawn without prejudice but afaict nothing became of it.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 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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