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Every chapter is a great example of confirmation bias.

In the introduction of the book Jared Diamond outlines his professional training as a biogeographer. He describes how he was working in Papua when a troubling question formed in his mind, prompted by another question from a friend. Why had his people developed advanced technology, while the people of New Guinea had not? This is what fostered his interest into anthropology and history, and prompted him to write the book. I do not know his thought process beyond that, other than what he has placed on paper. But as I've seen similar mistakes to these before, allow me to posit a guess.

When Jared Diamond began researching the anthropology of the New World civilizations, he appears to have read a few secondary sources, and then dove directly into the primary source material, specifically the accounts provided by the conquistadors. He would have noticed a problem right away – the version of events that modern historians gave in their books contradicted what the primary sources said. Diamond, thinking like a scientist, saw the primary sources as the raw data. Secondary sources were synthesis and interpretation. So naturally, he rejected the viewpoints of modern scholars as baseless, and took the accounts of the conquistadors at face value.

Through this butchered rendering of history, he's arrived at a conclusion that he already had before he began writing: the European conquests in the Americas were an inevitable result of European superiority. And to Diamond, this superiority goes beyond the specific technologies that Europeans used, such as trans-atlantic sailing, weapons, and armor. By Diamond's reckoning, the difference between native civilizations and European ones was not simply a question of specific technologies and cultural idiosyncrasies; the native civilizations were categorically inferior. Their lack of specific technologies is equated with a lack of intellectual sophistication. The naiveté he ascribes to the Inca makes them seem like children who lacked the wisdom and experience of their more sophisticated European counterparts. They cowered helplessly in fear of their new European overlords, as the unstoppable conquistadors rolled through armies that outnumbered them 1,000 to 1 like a twelve-pound ball through bowling pins.

If the point of the book ("Yali's Question") can be paraphrased as "Why did Europe come to dominate the world?" Diamond's immediate answer delivered in Chapter 3 is, "because Europe was technologically and culturally superior." The rest of the book then tries to address "Why was Europe superior?" as if he has already solved the first part of the problem. He hasn't; he's twisted the Spanish conquest of the Inca empire into a strawman for advancing the idea of European superiority, and anybody who is actually educated on that topic can see it.

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>>131919003
Fuck off with this thread newfag.

Sage and report.

>>131919003
well everything would get a lot better if you would just leave.

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Kek faggots.
They spam their retarded frog and turn everything into mockery. They know no decency, no meaning. Everything is a jest to them. They don't have any value as people, more they are a hindrance to any decent people. I wish they would join the leftiests, at least then they would be a ballchain on their leg, not ours with their demon worship.

>>131918882
faggot

>>131918930
that doesn't answer my question

why do you have a naked man saved?

Tell them that they understand what Socialism is even less than the average American Conservative.

>>131918759
Correct. And that's exactly why everything is going to shit.

>>131918759
>2017
>still actually arguing with leftists
Most leftists don't want to argue. They just want to win.

probably not. but there will be a ton of jewry which is almost as bad imo

>>131918742
Nope
Just a bunch of normies partying while I shitpost on 4chins

>>131918742
Yeah...in the free agency

1%?
Back to Africa Tyrone!

i got 100% europe

These DNA tests are still bullshit. You can take 3 of them and they'll all give you different results. The data they have to compare your DNA with is not enough. They also want you to believe that you are part nigger or Jew so that you will be a cuck.

>>131457047
>CEOs only make 180k
but CNN told me that CEOs are the scum of the earth?

>>131457047
i wanna fuck that finnish admin manager

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPthb7qUpfk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNuYGxMV-xQ&list=PLWMAwtNGwHOPHt0mARjxug45vNSJ4ksL8

>Media
>Education system
>Hormones in water/food

So yeah

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>>131457033
/thread

>>131456946
They looked like sex objects back then too.

It's just the definition of what a sex object looks like is changing.

The kids in the picture are dressed like the fucking cast of Friends. I'm sure their mothers called them whores for wearing overalls.

>>131456682
It's growing because of white liberal Northerners and non-white immigration. This is why it's a swing state and not reliably red anymore.

It's Southern but not as visibly poor as say Mississippi or Kentucky.

>>131456682
see Technology Triangle, Outer banks and Great Smoky Mountain National Park.

Land is super cheap and has potential to be worth more. Taxes are almost non-existent and rednecks throw the best parties.

>>131457044
seems to be a nice place

>>131456522
>implying

Brain washing

how can whites hate whites if they are white?

the truth is most jews aren't really white. most are visually middle eastern. some are physically indistinguishable from whites, but even these are actually of their own gene pool, as they historically only interbreed with other joos.

and the reason is religion OP. religion is the highest order in the human psyche. it trumps EVERYTHING because people believe they are providing for their immortal soul by doing as their skygod says. so they'll even sell out "their own people". they're getting scammed though. that's the saddest part.

K.

>>131918646
congrats, you're retarded. pls fuck off now.
>sage

>>131918646
>Guys, I just got done reading this and it's pretty convincing. I don't know if I can stay on the right side of the political spectrum anymore

read it and I say you need to become alt right.
Nowhere did Marx talk about the plight of the forced employment immigrantian to serve the rich.

But he did say support the working class, it was in fact his entire life's work.

Marxism was changed in the 1970s, class struggle become various struggles which had no relevance in the real world. Like feminist struggle, race struggle etc. Even though many of those issues were more or less resolved.

That's why Marxism today is the opposite of the early Marxism, which was right.

Marx also never believed in a utopian state, which is fair, no such thing can ever be achieved without severely oppressing the population.

But Always support the working class people, lest you are on the wrong side of history.
And the working class leans heavily to the right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-aMfru6UV8
Give me the conviction that this man has in what I do
With it, I could change the world

This is what happens when you let niggers run security

>"GIV ME THE LOOT!!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0h_uFwlzyo

Okay this is the audio I recorded when filming outside the French embassy in London at a UAF protest against Marine Le Pen, http://vocaroo.com/i/s1dSmyzrg4H1

That was after a heated exchange with a protester that I was also filming http://vocaroo.com/i/s1epvgedB1Eq