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[-] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago

To quote myself talking about someone using it as a source in their youtube video:

"Guns Germs and Steel" a notorious pop-history book that has recieved a lot of negative criticism from historians for its inaccurate and infantilising depictions of native American civilisations, amongst other things, painting the conquest of the Americas as an "us or them" style thing, portraying it as "inevitable" and making absurd and insulting claims about native American groups, like the Inca being too stupid to know what an ambush was, because they didn't have horses.

[-] pleiades@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

bruh... from the description i thought it was going to be at least somewhat related to historical materialism or sociology in general

[-] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

Nope, it gives the impression of that, but it is one of those books that will actively lead you to understanding less of history after reading it, while thinking you understand more than the average person.

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