alternative: "left-wing revisionists construct a narrative of medieval that supports their modern prejudices as micro-theater of meme war"pic.twitter.com/z9yrcO9mp8
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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...
...as a starting point and refiguring the past as a process of building up toward it. this is decidedly the latter imo
But the former literally does not exist, and the fact that someone is pretending it does is the bulk of the delusion
I mean the crusades weren't a "clash of cultures." It was Christianity. Literally Christianity.
The actual societies these people fetishize would consider them a reprehensible plague.
And they can't get that because the only way for them to discover the past *is* by reaching through their US "racial realism"
The way that people in the distant past thought is *gone*. There aren't inheritors who can recover it. We can't be those people
And I guess as evidence I'd say that the people who say they can are, if anything, even more tainted by contemporary politics.
I mean one can construct arguments on population genetics and breeding patterns without resorting to 20th century...
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