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This is a weekly thread in which we read through books on and related to imperialism and geopolitics. Last week's thread is here.

The book we are currently reading through is How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Please comment or message me directly if you wish to be pinged for this group, or if you no longer wish to be pinged.

This week, we will be reading Chapter 1: Some Questions On Development.

Next week, we will be reading the first section, "A General Overview", of Chapter 2: How Africans Developed Before The Coming Of The Europeans - Up To The Fifteenth Century.

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[โ€“] MLRL_Commie@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I'll take your words about using "clear" and "obvious" to heart. For third persons not involved that can be very demeaning, and I apologize for that to you, and will adjust them to be more pointed and use terms like "with investigation, it can be found that..."

But directing them at the OP is warranted, because, again, they seemingly willingly lied about the book to dismiss it. The best interpretation I can think of is that they were just super not careful with the reading, in which case scolding for speaking authoritatively without any investigation is warranted. The worst case is willful misinterpretation because they disagree but don't want to pinpoint why (most likely because their disagreement is wrong and they're aware in some way). So I still feel entirely justified for that, but the language would've been better for a personal message, I guess.