Spurious history
Dec. 10th, 2012 07:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marjaerwinI'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
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
