Somebody’s DRUNK

[EraGodless]

November 2017 – AHA

www.historians.org

Fawkin’ hilarious

I really don't miss reading the works of people who write like this-- it's all so tiresome.

When I organized this multi-session workshop with Michael Kulikowski (Penn State Univ.) back in January, we could not have foreseen some of these specific developments; but as historians of ancient Rome and medieval Europe we were already deeply sensitized to the misrepresentation of our fields and grimly awaited the escalation of these abuses after the 2016 presidential election. As in the 19th and early 20th centuries, nationalist and racist discourses are now being fueled by a toxic nostalgia for nonexistent eras of ethnic homogeneity. Fears that “innate” European or “Western” identities are being threatened by immigration are heavily indebted to false narratives of some preternatural ethnic purity rooted in medieval European soil; anti-immigrant rhetoric evokes the “barbarian invasions” of a Roman Empire depicted as ludicrously monochromatic. We therefore wanted to ensure that the modern categories of race, ethnicity, and nationalism would be placed within a deeper historical context. We also wanted to showcase recent scholarship on the ways that ethnic differences were described and experienced in the premodern world, and to address current historical and scientific methods that are being used to identify and differentiate among peoples of the past. Above all, we wanted to warn against the potential misuses of this research in new pseudo-scientific racist discourses.

 

[guyincognito2.0]

The

its the reactions @Jenna HAS GIVEN YOU TURNIP .. i don't know what you're talking about

also here's a better weighted score with an arbitrary cut off of 100 posts and 30 reactions given

@Jenna's simp list

# rib_getter	reaction_id	total_posts	reaction_type	count_	ratio_
VoodooChild	1	409	ribs	50	0.1222
Duxbury Dave	1	1319	ribs	142	0.1077
Honey Badger	1	1192	ribs	125	0.1049
Prison Enjoyer	1	953	ribs	81	0.085
SpaceEdge	1	2922	ribs	242	0.0828
RickReternal	1	1457	ribs	90	0.0618
Tagine Enthusiast	1	895	ribs	54	0.0603
bovinebrain	1	658	ribs	38	0.0578
DanMullen'sRetardedNephew	1	4702	ribs	260	0.0553
TorqueWheeler	1	6509	ribs	349	0.0536
captain_kamala	1	7560	ribs	387	0.0512
fricklefrackle	1	2272	ribs	99	0.0436
Sink Inspector	1	5208	ribs	227	0.0436
LongIslandchomper	1	1158	ribs	48	0.0415
The Pasture Pet Destroyer	1	916	ribs	38	0.0415
turdcutter	1	796	ribs	33	0.0415
Caverlock	1	1362	ribs	54	0.0396
BudDickman	1	2990	ribs	117	0.0391
admin	1	3738	ribs	142	0.038
Bin_The_Blacks	1	2029	ribs	76	0.0375

“There are lies, damn lies, and then there are statistics”:

 

[Uncle Floyd]

I really don't miss reading the works of people who write like this-- it's all so tiresome.

When I organized this multi-session workshop with Michael Kulikowski (Penn State Univ.) back in January, we could not have foreseen some of these specific developments; but as historians of ancient Rome and medieval Europe we were already deeply sensitized to the misrepresentation of our fields and grimly awaited the escalation of these abuses after the 2016 presidential election. As in the 19th and early 20th centuries, nationalist and racist discourses are now being fueled by a toxic nostalgia for nonexistent eras of ethnic homogeneity. Fears that “innate” European or “Western” identities are being threatened by immigration are heavily indebted to false narratives of some preternatural ethnic purity rooted in medieval European soil; anti-immigrant rhetoric evokes the “barbarian invasions” of a Roman Empire depicted as ludicrously monochromatic. We therefore wanted to ensure that the modern categories of race, ethnicity, and nationalism would be placed within a deeper historical context. We also wanted to showcase recent scholarship on the ways that ethnic differences were described and experienced in the premodern world, and to address current historical and scientific methods that are being used to identify and differentiate among peoples of the past. Above all, we wanted to warn against the potential misuses of this research in new pseudo-scientific racist discourses.

This isnt what I expected to read under a thread entitled "Somebody's DRUNK."