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Re: icymi above
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Ferguson and D'Souza do not belong in the same sentence. Ferguson may be sloppy and lazy in some texts, but he's still respectable. D'Souza is an Anne Coulter. He's dealing in fiction and lurid advocacy.
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Both of them could have followed a path to academic respectability, and both of them have passed that up to sell books to the masses. You're just quibbling about the degree to which each has sacrificed respect for sales -- the market segment each chose when they sold their soul.
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