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 == ""primitivism"" == 

 Hi, the article seems a pretty poor description of so-called ""primitivist"" thought, with a fair number of errors or distortions. The one correction I need to insist on is that I (Derrick Jensen) have never claimed to be a ""primitivist,"" because I find the term horribly racist and offensive. It implies that indigenous peoples are ""primitive"" and buys into the western notion of ""progress,"" that western civilized society is more ""advanced"" than the more ""primitive"" indigenous peoples. Some of you will probably argue that indigenous peoples are indeed ""primitive"" because they do not have back-hoes or fellerbunchers or interstate highways, but it's a term I have not used and would never use, because I do not believe it, and find the construct racist and offensive. So please do not classify me as an anarcho-primitivist. To do so is at the very least inaccurate. 

 Thank you, 
 Derrick"