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I am unclear what about his background as a professor at a university proudly named after the hard core genocidist Lord Jeffery Amherst makes you believe he is
by red-indian 10y ago
I am unclear what about his background as a professor at a university proudly named after the hard core genocidist Lord Jeffery Amherst makes you believe he is a qualified informant in these specific issues? Can you explain? Thank you.
- EnFinlay 10y agoI don't see how the name of the university is a knockout blow to his credibility. What is your source of credibility, other than a vaguely racist username and declaration of kinship?
- red-indian 10y agoHuh?
- prawn 10y agoYou might want to retract "vaguely racist username" and read this very interesting post by @red-indian about names for the indigenous populations of North America. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10829124 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10829124
- EnFinlay 10y agoNow this opens up a whole other thing. The comment you linked mentions that it is considered rude in Canada (which is where I'm from). But it also explains why it is used. I apologize for any accusations explicit or implicit in saying "vaguely racist username".
- compiler-guy 10y agoAmherst College has thoroughly repudiated Lord Amherst (http://amherststudent.amherst.edu/?q=article/2016/02/03/board-trustees-rejects-lord-jeff http://amherststudent.amherst.edu/?q=article/2016/02/03/boar...), and I have no desire to defend him. Regardless of the name, Amherst College is very highly respected in the social sciences, which (collectively at least), are very much in favor of careful, thoughtful study of cultures not their own. It shows up in the top-twenty (often much higher) of nearly every ranking for which it is eligible. That said, if that one fact is enough for you to disregard this professor's fifty-years of research, I don't think we can have a further discussion. Good luck to you.