Alt title: 3 Old White Men Discover Colonialsm Bad

  • Michael H. Jenkins
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    1 month ago

    As a quick semi-aside: 20 years isn’t that long in academic research, and it’s especially not that long when we’re talking about colonialism/post-colonialism. It’s a tremendous amount of time in the hard sciences I’m told but it’s a mistake to apply that lens here.

    • FlowVoid@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      That’s kind of my point. They didn’t come up with their ideas yesterday, so you shouldn’t expect the results to appear groundbreaking today.

      • Michael H. Jenkins
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        1 month ago

        Ah, gotcha. We’re talking at cross-purposes a bit I think.

        Thank you for being civil through this; I genuinely appreciate that and it’s nice to meet someone else who cares about these issues.