linked source from 2005? this reads like a dire omen of the future academia and institutions just started to crumble under the assault of blogs a kernel of the Woke slipping only the field very trippyhttps://archive.is/l2mdA
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there's also "insider" politics going on behind that. Diamond is not a cultural anthropologist by trade (trained as ornithologist, actually). He was seen as an interloper by that sect of the academy and they've been aggressively trying to purge him since he wrote the book.
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And here I was thinking that people criticized it for an insupportably bad deterministic view of history
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I've seen a lot of Jared Diamond criticism in my time but this is new to me

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If it’s not useful in attacking people I hate, then that’s bad.
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Things having reasons mean they are justified, didn't you know? Evil exclusively comes from unmoved movers.
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And I did not know, until this day, that it was Aristotle all along.
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this reads as if the criticism is that g,g,&s was not racist enough
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