#Historical

Dana Schwartz

DanaSchwartzzz

OKAY. This is a thread, but it’s worth it I promise.On Reddit today, user u/NoNoNo_OhOhOh posted a page from acclaimed Irish novelist John Boyne’s latest book, ‘The Traveller At the

Isabelle No climate justice without racial justice

IsabelleLetell1

Shall we remove Linnaeus' statue in front of the Swedish Library? Linnaeus is known for his biological taxonomy. He also classified "races". Can we call it the "racism of his

NUFC Gallowgate نيوكاسل

NUFCgallowgate

Information from Saudi: The volume of Saudi investments in Britain exceeds 21 billion dollars, and the volume of British investments in Saudi Arabia is 3.3 billion dollars. There are also

Hannah Malcolm

hannahmmalcolm

This time last year I got accepted to train for ordination in the Church of England. (This is an earnest church feelings thread, sorry). I was raised evangelical, with a

Ari Drennen

AriDrennen

If only there were some worrying historical precedent about what happens next when somebody refers to the existence of your group as “the X question.” So many red flags. It’s

el gato malo

boriquagato

when all the real data comes in on how many people lockdowns killed, finding anyone who admits to having supported them is going to be like trying to find the

Karl Jacoby

karl_jacoby

Historian here: Comparing "Pearl Harbor" to Covid-19 is a terrible historical analogy; it panders to anti-Asian racism; obscures why working-class communities are more vulnerable to the virus; and erases the

Christopher Lasch's Angry Ghost

ghostofchristo1

Part of the imperialistic mentality is a narcissistic desire to see your own image reflected back at you from every global and historical surface. And when you don’t see the

Asfandyar Bhittani

BhittaniKhannnn

When Jibby talks about 'identity crisis', he shows his own IC & that of the fringe (leftists). For them, it's all about race. Even that is skewed since they think

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sqpphc

Okay so I want to do a #BlackOut on May 31st. Here are the rules:This is a day where only black people tweet. We can all make threads and uplift

Ariel Cohen-Goldberg

arielmc_g

By now you've probably seen the vitriol against "irregardless" being considered a "real word". I wanted to discuss the actual science (linguistics) behind words like this because quite frankly, it's

Ann Jones

jones_ann

As it turns out, 1960 was quite the year for George Cresswell. Thread/ He'd finished up at @uwanews and responded to an ad in the paper for a job in

Zack Stentz

MuseZack

For Easter morning I'm reading some of the Bible verses about the Resurrection, and they're really fascinating from a narrative standpoint. The descriptions are downright modern in that nearly everyone

Chenchen Zhang🤦🏻‍♀️

chenchenzh

I think "she" is a better approximate sound than "see", if we go with the Putonghua phonologyhowever, "see" might be more legitimate if we consider the jiantuan distinction in historical

fka guill0teen_ 🧚🏽‍♂️

rabbitven0m

a few months ago I TA’d (and lectured 2 classes) for a Pilipinx History course at my university *note: basically everyone in the class was pilipinx*. I think what struck

Kate Clanchy

KateClanchy1

This is a thread about how our school’s English Lit results got downgraded yesterday, from A*- E to C -E, told in poems. Our school is exceptionally inclusive. Every year