I'm pretty sure Classics is, by definition, the least affirming field. You can't know Latin or Greek in a way that's THAT impressive.
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If you make a startling, massive linguistic or archaeological discovery, BAM! Not classics anymore, separate field.
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Recent stand-outs in Classics are Fagles- Best Translation of Aeneid in English, VDH- Best Public Understanding, Donald Kagan- Best Lectures
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That's in secular America anyway. Classics necessarily involves all sorts of national and religious borders.
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They hate honkies. I know - it was a real lightbulb moment for me too.
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"They also love the classics"? What's wrong with the classics?
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So Eurocentric! So white! Not enough PoC, in the history and as scholars. Western Civ, ewwww! ... You cannot make this stuff up.

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Do I misunderstand? Did she just defend political correctness in plain language as a holy right?
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Microaffirmations? Wait, wait till i stop laughing. Is she Thumbelina and needs tiny stuff? I think i'm gonna throw up.
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Exactly. Afaics, blacks, arabs, and Hispanic are far more "toxic" than the vast majority of white men.
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Toxic masculinity? You mean the masculinity that has protected women and children up through the ages? You mean that toxic masculinity?
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As I understand it, the Alt Right cares little for Classics, they prefer authors like Evola and Spengler to Plato and Locke.
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Ah yes, the venerable topic of Gamergate, right up there with Hellenic Bactria
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the only spectre haunting the internet is profiling data garnered from social media sites Ms Zuckerberg
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