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Graham Broad

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Professional historian, amateur philosopher, premature curmudgeon. Associate professor @kingsatwestern. I tweet about history and bicycles.

London, ON
Joined December 2013

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    Graham Broad‏ @ProfessorBroad 24 Nov 2019
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    Retweeted nearly 2K times, here's a perfect example of the kind of slovenly, ideologically driven thinking that passes for "history" on Twitter. https://twitter.com/AsheSchow/status/1198275209423446016 …

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    • Russ Shanahan Evan Reid Green Tea of Despair Rob Eric Boelling Ivan Kozik CJ Phillips Hans Huygens daryl nerdbet
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      2. Graham Broad‏ @ProfessorBroad 24 Nov 2019
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        On 22 June 1941 – coincidentally the same day that Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union – the NYT magazine published a excerpts from Mein Kampf, Hitler's 1925 biographical manifesto, as a warning about Germany's threat to the US.pic.twitter.com/ztRfS4ZqCw

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      3. Graham Broad‏ @ProfessorBroad 24 Nov 2019
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        The editors prefaced the excerpts with the remark, "Germany is now waging a psychological war against this country." It was not an "op-ed" written by Hitler for the NYT. It was an assemblage of 15 year old quotations from Hitler produced by the Times as a warning.

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      4. Graham Broad‏ @ProfessorBroad 24 Nov 2019
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        To say that "the NYT let Hitler publish an op-ed" is entirely false. Hitler did not send an "op-ed" to the NYT that they agreed to publish. It's the equivalent of saying that I'm spreading Nazi antisemitism when I lecture about the Holocaust.

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      5. Graham Broad‏ @ProfessorBroad 24 Nov 2019
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        But this sort of thing is commonplace on Twitter (and not just on the political right, I am afraid to say). Read the comments – virtually no one has bothered to fact check the assertion or to contextualize the piece.

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      6. Graham Broad‏ @ProfessorBroad 24 Nov 2019
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        This is where a history education can be a powerful tool against ideologues of all political stripes today, because students of history know better than most that the past is complicated, and not to be deployed as a blunt instrument in scoring cheap political points today.

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      7. Graham Broad‏ @ProfessorBroad 24 Nov 2019
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        Finally: 2000 retweets from an account with 50000 followers. It is probable that, in that single Tweet, this person reached more people with a false claim than I will in a lifetime of classroom teaching and academic publishing.

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      8. Graham Broad‏ @ProfessorBroad 25 Nov 2019
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        Update: 25 November. The original Tweet has been deleted. Anticipating this, I kept a screenshot.pic.twitter.com/U6XlP7SFBM

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      1. Canadian Cemetery History‏ @CaCemeteryHist 24 Nov 2019
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        Replying to @ProfessorBroad

        Nice use of slovenly. I always use it to refer to poor dress or eating habits, but now will have a new use to describe sub-par historical discussions/points.

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      2. Patricia Teter‏ @Artful_Puck 24 Nov 2019
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        Replying to @ProfessorBroad @gordmcintyre

        @ThreadReaderApp Please unroll this thread.

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      3. Thread Reader App‏ @threadreaderapp 24 Nov 2019
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        Hi! there is your unroll: Thread by @ProfessorBroad: "Retweeted nearly 2K times, here's a perfect example of the kind of slovenly, ideologically driven thinking that passes f […]" https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1198592455978950656.html … Enjoy :) 🤖

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