the absolute fucking arrogance and bad faith of those defending that terrible, libertarian, quasi-racist SCIENCE piece on the medieval church is stunning. #medievaltwitter
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also boo fucking hoo that historians - WHO ACTUALLY KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THE MEDIEVAL WORLD - are pointing out that the study is garbage.
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you, a sage: "look at our data" me, a dunderhead: "THERE'S NO FUCKING DATA FROM THE MEDIEVAL WORLD."
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Replying to @prof_gabriele
Nah don’t worry, they used the Vatican’s annual census and marriage records for Europe. It goes back to Christ and was the precursor to the EU. Medievalists don’t use it only because we don’t learn statistical methods
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This could have been written in 1912 to justify Jim Crow “You need a civic society to sustain democracy, and what we look at in our paper is, I believe, a precursor for such a civic society,” says co-author Jonathan Schulz, an economist at George Mason University
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that's precisely what me and
@ISASaxonists are suggesting in a piece we're writing...3 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
Oh thank god y’all are writing something. I just read through their 50+ page supplemental and added to my thread about it and I just...yikes.
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