TIL that correcting papers based on traditional but also incorrect views of history is "wokeism". Also lmao at saying Oxford is a bastion of left wing culture. Big lmao.https://twitter.com/inthesedeserts/status/1288381424878391296 …
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Dr C. M. Bromstick 🧹, Dublin Retweeted Nate
TIL that correcting papers based on traditional but also incorrect views of history is "wokeism". Also lmao at saying Oxford is a bastion of left wing culture. Big lmao.https://twitter.com/inthesedeserts/status/1288381424878391296 …
Dr C. M. Bromstick 🧹, Dublin added,
Surprisingly, most medieval historians in Oxford are (or were when I was there '13-'14) generally quite left-wing, both in methodology and praxis and I got a similar sort of impression of modernists
Well, I think the issue with just saying these people are left wing can elide problems of people who are ostensibly left wing but they still are racist or sexist. Many historians I know that have exhibited very bad behaviour identify as left wing.
Stories from women and BAME people at Oxford and interactions with medievalists who work there put a lot of things into perspective.
Absolutely agree. And of course I'm the sort of person (straight white guy) who tends not be aware of these abusive cases unless they gain a huge level of notoriety, so it's a view from a privileged position.
Yeah, it’s easy to not look past the veneer. And if you aren’t a POC and/or a woman and/or queer then many people who say they are leftists don’t get much scrutiny.
I'm not sure it's so much that they don't get scrutiny, but that it's hard for people who aren't the target of many of these abuses (especially more insidious ones) to pick up on them. Institutional abusers thrive on their authority to keep things quiet.
Well, what I mean is, it is easy to say the right things in public but behind the scenes harass students and colleagues, or write bad references, enable others, and so on. But I think that privileged people are not going to scrutinize other privileged people that much.
Because we haven't been in the same types of situations, so when someone says, oh I'm a leftist then we instinctively believe them because why would they lie? But the problem is that people can be leftists as well as bad people. And they don't scrutinize themselves.
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