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blowfish posted:It's quite funny, chapters of Diamond was required reading in my ecology course. was it from collapse? I liked collapse
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GG&S was required reading for an environmental history course I took. But we were supposed to critique its arguments, so it was good fodder for that.
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Hogge Wild posted:Diamond is not debunked, some D&D posters just don't like him. blowfish posted:It's quite funny, chapters of Diamond was required reading in my ecology course.
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Typo posted:As others have said, he's not trying to absolve colonialism, he's trying to explain why it's Europeans who got ships and guns to beat up the non-Europeans instead of like the Aztec or Iroquois beating up Europe About that...
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The Kingfish posted:What about that? it's a video game reference
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Wallet posted:I remember Diamond's specific arguments about as well as everyone else seems to, but I believe that beyond his various factual errors, the book was criticized for painting a multitude of colonial atrocities as the result of geographical happenstance and thus absolving their perpetrators. The myriad material processes of geography and history that eventually led to the invention and widespread use of guns don't kill people, people kill people. 
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