@AdelePerry it's like you are listening to CBC's the 180 right now.
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Replying to @ephraim_quin
@ephraim_quin@AdelePerry Well, Black is to history what Rex Murphy is to climate science.1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes -
Replying to @HeerJeet
@HeerJeet@AdelePerry When was Murphy last interviewed or featured as a climate scientist, as opposed to a commentator with an opinion?1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @ephraim_quin
@ephraim_quin@AdelePerry Does it matter how introduced? Many of Murphy's fans do think of him as climate expert on par with scientists.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @HeerJeet
@HeerJeet@AdelePerry yes it matters: Black's tome is being taken as a serious intervention into Canadian history by broad range of media1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes -
Replying to @ephraim_quin
@ephraim_quin@HeerJeet today on the 180 he was referred to as "a historian" at least twice. I am ambivalent about invoking professionalism1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @AdelePerry
@ephraim_quin@HeerJeet because it is so often used to delegitimate voices who are very much expert on the past and needed2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @AdelePerry
@AdelePerry@ephraim_quin Exactly. I think it's better to say Black is a very bad historian than to invoke professional credentials.2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @HeerJeet
@HeerJeet@ephraim_quin yes, though I don't think it is just credentialism here -- Black has an MA in History from McGill, right? --2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @AdelePerry
@HeerJeet@ephraim_quin my point is more that his work would in no way be published/given airtime for its merits as history.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@AdelePerry @ephraim_quin That's a fair point. If anyone else had written these books, they wouldn't have been published.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
@AdelePerry@ephraim_quin When Fawn Brodie wrote pioneering book on Jefferson/Hemmings relationship was dismissed as not a historian.0 replies 0 retweets 1 likeThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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