Diamond Hunt Goes Amiss
Hey, quite a spectacle over at Savage Minds, with a bunch of anthros, (apparent) journos and one sculptor/art historian-turned bloodhound ripping each other to shreds.
People, people, is that any way to run a truth squad?
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It’s sickening. To paraphrase what Barry Delong said of Savage Minds in 2005, that blog still is in need of “a better class of critics of Jared Diamond.”