The Buzzfeed article was fucking infuriating (the article itself is good, I mean the implications etc.) but I gotta say
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we already have a problem of white supremacists who are not historians using history for their ends.
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and there are historians who, from the inside, use their positions of authority as "experts" to further this shit
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I got a friend who wrote his PhD thesis on the reception of Muslims during the First Crusade. Does he have a job? No.
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But this fucking piece of shit person is using Crusades history (NOT her area as well, mind), to further white supremacist shit
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