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> You didn't engage the content of the book. You just said you didn't like it because liberals did. That's content free. No, I think its a poor choice when you
by protomyth 10y ago
> You didn't engage the content of the book. You just said you didn't like it because liberals did. That's content free.
No, I think its a poor choice when you are trying to tell the story of a people so that you can gain an understanding of them and they don't like or agree with the book, but their opposite number does and sees it as a revelation. Living among the natives to write a book is an old ploy that has been done poorly for a long time, but since I live here full time, clocking hours isn't really part of my argument.
Confirmation bias would be a nice way to put it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
- CalChris 10y agoAgain, that's not engagement. That's judgment and whether you live 'there' matters not a whit. BTW before you can cite confirmation bias you have to engage the material. She did. You didn't.
- protomyth 10y agoThis is pretty fruitless and really you are just jumping all over. If her going to live some place matters (as you seem to indicated in the comment you made), but my living here doesn't, then I am confused. I view the content of the book with a belief that she didn't look through her subjects eyes and thus failed to live up to an true description of the people. I'm a bit sensitive to that type of thing since I've seen it more than once from another culture I grew up in. anyway, I'm done with this as I don't have an idea what your definition of "engagement" is and since I'm having flashbacks to running into trouble with the changing meaning of "socialize", I'll go think pleasant thoughts.