Rodney Mancuso
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Rodney Mancuso
@armancuso
I enjoy books. History. Books about history. Jumping into discussions despite lacking the tools to do so properly and appearing ridiculous. Normal things.
Dallas, TX Katılım Mayıs 2023
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@Authw8 @armancuso But there aren't just two possible worldviews, there's a vast constellation of viewpoints. And any academic who is actively smuggling their worldview into their work is doing a bad job ino even if I agree with the ideas behind it.
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i don't think academic historians fully appreciate the epistemic situation they've created for conservatives who are curious about the past. conservatives can see plainly that modern historians are biased, but the only way to develop the skills to separate fact from nonsense would be to spend years studying with those biased historians in an academic setting. in practice all they can do is toss the new stuff out and read older historians or rawdog the sources.
as someone who started off woke, i can read woke history and usually separate the real stuff from the nonsense, but that's a harder skill to develop if you're not really aligned with woke culture.
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@Authw8 @kyk1opes Yes, and that is an enormous problem. For academia because they're being dismantled, and for conservatives because they will not enjoy the "find out" phase of tearing up this particular fence of Chesterton's regardless of how satisfying it may feel to own the libs for a while.
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progressives don't have to learn to crack the code the same way though. they can just read the latest stuff and it aligns nicely with how they see the world.
in practice, it's not like this situation has led to conservatives becoming masters of the field because of the extra work they have to do. they just end up forming their own intellectual ghetto, which is bad for everyone
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@Authw8 @kyk1opes Some of his conclusions are informed by his political views. Figuring that out requires following his argument closely, but it's not like he tries to disguise anything. Even (especially?) if you disagree, his work invites the sort of interpretive discussion that moves history.
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@Authw8 It's generally not difficult at all to tell by the end of the introduction whether you think the author's methodology, priors, biases etc. are so obnoxious that you wouldn't enjoy the book.
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@Authw8 If you're just reading history for fun, you are certainly not reading the most avant-garde theoretically informed stuff, or the nitty gritty monographs only trying to talk to other historians. The rest should be easily accessible to a typical college-educated adult.
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@Rothmus At first I thought they may have used a single country's number, perhaps the USA. But no - that's 252-305k. The Dutch are 475-554k. Did they just make up a figure, cite a reliable source in the fine print, and assume nobody would check? (500+ retweets - I guess they're right.)
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@Rothmus Where did this meme's creator get the figure for enslaved African? The 400k figure doesn't even reach the total for the Dutch alone. Here's a link directly to estimates from the cited source:
slavevoyages.org/assessment/est…
They total 10-12 million.
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@lymanstoneky @CharlesFLehman At least some stops do (e.g. Grand), although they're not very difficult to circumvent. The ticket kiosk is hard to miss.
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@CharlesFLehman They just aren’t even making an effort at revenue.
Apparently full on fare gating with tall gates is coming this year after decades of honor system but still it’s just wild they don’t even have a pretense of fare enforcement
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Sorry i just learned today that St Louis’ train system is totally an honor system and that’s insane. No idea how anybody ever thought that would work in America.
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@LeahLibresco @lymanstoneky @matthew_loftus @matthewschmitz 1. It is amusing that the development Lyman laments can probably be laid at Luther's feet, ultimately.
2. Augustine is a better counterexample, I think.
3. Y'all are arguing over a false binary.
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@lymanstoneky @matthew_loftus @matthewschmitz This isn’t from the 1600s! The letter to Diognetus (in the Office of Readings today) is from the beginning of the Church.
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The graph of Christianity in the Roman Empire during the 4th century would like a word
Constantinianism is *correct*
Leah Libresco Sargeant@LeahLibresco
I've never had anyone ask me about Christ because they were drawn to my career, my looks (ha!), or my (living) children. It's always been about why I seemed to have an internal freedom/a hope in hard times. It's never been anything that was *mine,* but His.
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@michaelbd Agreed; although it is trendy right now, the expression has been commonplace for a long time. We don't want Bill & Ted (or do we?), but it's odd to be upset over informalities like "dad." The self-consciously antiquated language of older translations would make an awful movie.
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@armancuso That seems right to me. What I think you want to avoid is something that feels like an especially current idiom. “Let’s Go!” doesn’t seem so out of place in a battle scene.
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I'm not sure what my tolerance is for anachronistic dialogue. Sometimes - Peggy on Mad Men, "I'm in a good place now." - it's horrendous.
However I'm quite sure don't I want Eumaeus, to say to Odysseus of Argos, "But now he is in bad condition" just to be faithful to Fagles.
Christopher J. Scalia@cjscalia
Until today, my favorite recent bit of anachronistic dialogue was from Death by Lightning, when Chester A. Arthur said "I know, riiiight?"; but Odysseus screaming "Let's go!" as he races into battle, like my son and his friends playing flag football, is even better by which I mean worse.
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@Ed_Realist @CrazyCatComrade Has that changed in the past 25 years? I certainly took AP classes for credit; $100 for 3 hours is an absolute steal compared to what universities charge. It's the opposite of a paywall.
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@CrazyCatComrade "In order to get credit for AP classes, students have to pay almost $100 per exam."
Students don't take AP classes for the college credit. They take it for the GPA bump. And that's free.
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When I was in high school (about a decade ago), The Great Gatsby was only assigned to AP students. In order to get credit for AP classes, students have to pay almost $100 per exam. Interesting how literacy and cultural knowledge are paywalled even in public schools!
Ali B@wtflanksteak
Now people are in my mentions like "we didn't read The Great Gatsby in high school, grandma!" YEAH, that's a problem. That book is not that hard, it's incredibly relevant. A high school education now isn't as rigorous as the past. Most importantly tho, I'm not blaming the kids.
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Rodney Mancuso retweetledi
Time for the Antigone Spring Books Give-away! 40+ books and pamphlets on offer worldwide. Just repost this message and follow us, and on Sunday 3 names will be drawn. 1st chooses 20 things, 2nd 12, 3rd gets the rest. We'll add details of the items over coming days. Good luck all!
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@CaliforniaKati3 @ericmmatheny @The_FJC I moved to East St. Louis last year. The urban decay is real, but my neighbors are kind and friendly. Still alive. No nervous breakdowns in my car yet. Not sure why you'd imagine yourself in danger just driving through.
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@ericmmatheny @The_FJC I accidentally went into a neighborhood like this when my kids were little. Using an atlas to drive across the USA, I accidentally got off on the WRONG exit and ended up in east St Louis.
I had a breakdown in my car trying like hell to get tf out before I was murdered.
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@alexanderrusso @Ed_Realist Whenever you add variation & accommodation you increase instructor work load, at least if you do it right. It can be as simple as giving someone a pencil and paper to solve problems instead of a screen, but often is not, especially when designing around technology.
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@Ed_Realist They're not asking about individual lessons. They're asking about methods.
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If parents can opt out of tests and all sorts of other things, why not let them opt out of school devices?
Daniel Pearson@DPearsonPHL
The parents are right, chromebooks are not a necessary part of education. They should be able to opt-out, and schools should probably stop using them. inquirer.com/education/lowe…
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