the subtext of this article is pretty interestinghttp://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2017/01/medieval-memes?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/the_far_right_s_new_fascination_with_the_middle_ages …
lines like "the premodern contribution to multiculturalism" are whig view of history garbage
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Well it doesn't come from nowhere
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I mean the problem we have imo is that all of our modern conception follows on from the basically 18th c construction of race
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Like the romans didn't consider themselves multicultural but they certainly would be by today's standards.
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Because they weren't looking at it from the framework of racial theory designed to justify later european colonial expansion
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the difference for me is between tracing how thought of the past evolved into that of the present vs taking the present...
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...as a starting point and refiguring the past as a process of building up toward it. this is decidedly the latter imo
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But the former literally does not exist, and the fact that someone is pretending it does is the bulk of the delusion
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I mean the crusades weren't a "clash of cultures." It was Christianity. Literally Christianity.
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