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Jim McMurtry's avatar

Fair and informed comment but not something any politician or judge or other institutional leader has the mettle to write: Indigenous “knowledge keepers” may have many insights into spirituality, philosophy, and their traditional environments, but the fact is that Indigenous people, at first contact with Europeans, were an illiterate stone-age culture. They had not discovered the scientific method, which was the thing that allowed Europeans to rapidly advance their technology over the past few centuries.

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James Bouryiotis's avatar

Great article--informative and with some solid rebuttals of some of the "progressive" ideas piggybacking onto Critical Theory (which really is just an attitude--or "ideology"--that has lent very well to brat academics and activists who see the West/White people/Capitalism as a big oppressive parent). Also glad to see the reference to Jared Diamond--his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs and Steel needs to be invoked more often as a clear, morality-free evaluation of the development of human civilization.

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