I wonder, do you attack everyone who cites a source you disagree with? How does that play, professionally? Or is it just PhD students and ECRs you think you can get away with doing this.
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Also, the originally tweet is from a man who also studies African lit, it seems. I was simply elucidating on what I believed what his source was for someone citing an auction page.
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Seems to me that whoever was writing the descriptions for the Ethiopian MSS knows Ge'ez as well. I care about African literature. It's not my field, but I care about it. I am also a medievalist, and I care about demonstrating global links between peoples.
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So the sheer anger at suggesting that an Ethiopian MS translated a text from a man who was born and lived in Syria, Constantinople, etc. is very strange to me.
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Suggesting that an Ethiopian writer/compiler/scribe was aware of texts outside of Ethiopia and translated them I don't think is a horrible thing to consider.
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This is what the global middle ages is about. The movement of texts, ideas, people.
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Also, it’s absolutely possible for a senior scholar to be correct about the origins/source of the text AND be wrong to act in such a hostile manner to an ECR. (In many ways seems like textbook academic bullying)
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Like, the initial “good grief” response I could have some sympathy for (in the sense that common misconceptions about an understudied field is reasonably annoying) & it’s not like I’ve never been too sassy in a tweet. But doubling down after the fact is a different ball game
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I mean, yeah. I get being annoyed. But she went on to threaten me, and now has a whole thread where she lies and misrepresents what I said.
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Oh jeez I didn’t see the second thread (and to be clear not defending any of this!) LMK if I can do anything to support you from here
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Honestly signal boosting that she's been threatening me and then misrepresenting what I said would be ace, haha. I appreciate it :)
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