On what “burn it all down” really means, where it comes from, and why the predominant reactions to Sarah Bond’s original tweet from academics are willfully ignorant and reactionary. Thread.
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This is the "you're racist for talking about racism" argument. Nadhira here gestures toward an oft-overlooked fact: that merely the violence is always situated *outside* Classics, and thus critiquing the field has led to people *being accused of* wanting to burn it all down.
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Here I find
@feministkilljoy's “An Affinity of Hammers” helpful to think with. Ahmed observes that “so much violence directed against [minority] groups works by locating that violence as coming from within those groups." https://transreads.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/2019-03-20_5c928f8878844_22Ahmed.pdf …pic.twitter.com/uvvKw1nUli
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“Even causing the violence directed against them”: this is where the charge that the alternative of Bond's global antiquity model is akin to homelessness becomes the most morally disgusting.
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In pretending that the current system is accessible for the majority of those who might want to teach and learn about the ancient world, several today revealed that they think, on some level, that Classics is better off as is, that at least it *works*.
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My only question is, works *for whom*? If the field Classics really is a house, who gets to live there, and who doesn’t? Who always doesn’t? /end
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