2012-12-10

marjaerwin: (Default)
2012-12-10 07:22 pm

Spurious history

I'm sick of it.

If you make a spurious historical argument, you should expect people to challenge the argument. If you want to say that "burnt at the stake" is a gendered expression, you ought to be ready to accept that sometimes it's not.

If you insist that western history isn't western history, I guess we can debate the boundaries of western history.

If you tell me that events that still shape the present, and that still mean a lot of pain to a lot of us are "utterly irrelevant" and "an obnoxious derail" you are at once appropriating and erasing my religious heritage and you are erasing me.

See here: http://ananiujitha.tumblr.com/post/37671979030/laci-green-did-not-get-burned-at-the-stake-or-run

And here: http://fromonesurvivortoanother.tumblr.com/post/37672676741/laci-green-did-not-get-burned-at-the-stake-or-run