Moments of Permanence - Derailment Redux: Lois McMaster Bujold Hypocrisy Special Edition

From: sami Date: May 12th, 2009 12:23 am (UTC) Re: Megafauna & first nations (Link)

Interesting.

Thank you for this comment - it's edifying, and I will highlight it in my next post, though, as you acknowledge, it's not really the point regarding The Thirteenth Child. (Then again, part of why I'm doing this post series is basically to give a centralised point for blocking attempted derails. It's working for me, at least, because in more than one case my response to people bringing various beside-the-point stuff into the discussion is just: "Been done. Here." with a link to the post. So, you know, I actually am in favour of localised sidetracking, sort of.)

After all, the problem is not just sweeping aside the survivors - it's also her stated assumption that this doesn't make a major difference to the way the history pans out, which... hell no.

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From: antarcticlust.livejournal.com Date: May 12th, 2009 03:41 am (UTC) Re: Megafauna & first nations (Link)

If you're interested, and having trouble finding free versions of the articles I linked (I wanted to provide abstracts as well as merely journal references) I'm happy to provide them. Again, I realize I got excited about a topic near and dear to my grad student heart, and so I thank you for taking the time to humor my unintentional side-track! I certainly hope no one uses my arguments to justify Wrede - I meant to come across as saying "See, it doesn't even matter if paleoindians could have killed off the megafauna - the premise is STILL RACIST AND OFFENSIVE!" But I fear that got a bit lost in my geeky fervor.

Thank you for your thoughtful commentary!

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From: sami Date: May 12th, 2009 04:06 am (UTC) Re: Megafauna & first nations (Link)

Heh, I have institutional access too, so I for one shouldn't have a problem - but thank you. I do want to check those out.

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