I think this weird Twitter rant throws into stark relief a difference between the humanities and sciences. A political scientist is claiming that the metaphor

I think this weird Twitter rant throws into stark relief a difference between the humanities and sciences. A political scientist is claiming that the metaphor of the tragedy of the commons isn’t useful because its creator was racist. It is certainly clear to me now that Hardin was a racist and not a subtle one. ... but just because some guy on Twitter decided to go on a rant doesn’t change the fact that the tragedy of the commons is a situation whose preconditions, causes, and effects actual scientists have rigorously defined. Just because the human ecologist who popularized it (and I love the irony of the political scientist tweeter implying that his opinion is invalid because he was gasp actually just a human ecology professor) was a bad person doesn’t change the state of science.