The things you put in quotes are hardly representative of my thoughts. I do agree that the social cost of anything other than full throated support, even mostly-full-throated-support, is not worth it.
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social cost? my point is that NHJ is on the side of "it's more nuanced than good/evil, lets think critically about history" on both Grant *and* Castro, and is getting attacked for that by people who know far less and desperately want it to be simple and fit neatly in a box
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I wish there was a “take a break until you finish Ron Chernow’s Grant biography and whatever the best Fidel bio book is which I sadly don’t know” button and then we could all come back together and have a deep discussion.
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Eh. I read Chernow on Rockefeller and the house of Morgan. It was fine. I was ruined by Caro.
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I’m still only halfway through House of Morgan.
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Also Nikole Hannah Jones is impressive and had an incredible body of work prior to joining NYT and 1619 at ProPublica. Would not write her off.
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This was never a choice between deifying men or destroying statues. It's important to remember that we don't need to take the frames of the most radical and incoherent decile, or their chosen speakers.
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I’ve read her for years and I think she is neither radical nor incoherent and she has done years of detailed reporting on education and housing policy in the US.
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To be fair, I find *you* to be something of an SF-brand ideological Markov chain, so I'm not surprised we break on this one.
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