What's fascinating to me about this situation is the immense failure of history departments to prevent this, yes I'm critiqueing them all Max Boot. The accademy should never have gotten itself into a position where it needs to "reclaim" the history
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Judging by rather loose approach to sources in this article, I'd rather invert the question: how academy & history departments can prevent poor scholarship like this one from claiming the history and creating narratives for their presentist political needs?
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Congratulations, Dorothy! Excellent article.
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As someone of Scandinavian ancestry, we owe a debt to the Muslim community for preserving some of our history, especially guys like Ahmad ibn Fadlan. Cultures coming together is a great thing. https://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/199906/among.the.norse.tribes-the.remarkable.account.of.ibn.fadlan.htm …
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Congratulations! Incredible public scholarship.
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Errr... The Vikings were majority white, despite this author wishing they weren't. For an academic to claim otherwise is disingenuous and obvious propaganda not consistent with honest scholarship.
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What utter rubbish. How can you seriously say Vikings from Nordic areas during the middle ages were not PREDOMINANTLY white? It's actually insulting. There may have been a certain percentage of other races, but the majority would have been white. The evidence is in our dna.
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Shared. On behalf of heathens of conscience who are tired of white nationalists twisting history to match their hateful ideology, thank you.
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