Despite having a background in history & it being my favourite of all subjects, I feel the need to write a thing about the tendency of academic types to use it to derail issues at hand right now.
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If I am trying to discuss the problem of positionality - stay-in-your-lane, lived experience, my truth, sit down and shut up - I do not wish to hear about the Frankfurt School, Marx, Hegel or, most bizzarely, Plato. Please and thank you.
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I think the most annoying of these kinds of people are the 'Democrats supported slavery & Jim Crow' types.
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You should write a proper piece on this. It's not often noticed.
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(By "proper", I mean "full". Don't mean to suggest there's anything improper about your Twitter work!)
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