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I'd been looking forward to this, but am struggling with it. More polemical than I was expecting, despite expecting a polemic of righteous rage. It's all more angry assertion than evidenced argument, with a huge amount of assumptions about malign motives that imply that a vicious, violent, wilfully racist conspiracy is a more likely explanation than low-level, unthinking ignorance and dominant cultural modes.
— Jun 01, 2021 12:25PM
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This was *really* annoying me for the first few chapters - ranty polemic that was so assertive it was putting me off despite agreeing with it. Now it's shifted to the history of British deviousness, arrogance and atrocities in Africa in the late 19th century, it's getting much stronger. Using evidence is more compelling than making claims on their own - who'd have thought?
— Jul 03, 2021 10:03AM
