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Lovely article and perhaps the first one that people new to Wilson's work, like me, should read. Having read it, I can't say that I came away thinking Wilson wa
by helmholtz 5y ago
Lovely article and perhaps the first one that people new to Wilson's work, like me, should read. Having read it, I can't say that I came away thinking Wilson was racist, at all. If anything, it inspires me to try to be less emotionally charged when dealing with emotionally charged issues.
- ethbr0 5y agoTwitter, nor apparently SciAm, is suited to dealing with nuanced, multifaceted issues. Because invariably, people in the business of replying to short snippets with short snippets, will summarize someone's lengthy work in a short snippet. And on the basis of reading that summarization alone, someone will have an opinion (and possibly even a reasonable opinion, with no other context available), and then you're into the problem of (1) convincing someone to change their public opinion & (2) arguing from different viewpoints (if one has read the entire work & the other has not but won't admit to not having done so).