I think this is a deeper issue than establishment vs. progressives (though that plays a role). There’s definitely a segment of left-populists who focus too much on the largely mythic white working class vote too. Sanders has been doing it. In a broader sense there’s a “left-populist” stream just as obsessed with that…

I’m terrified that Biden will somehow get the nomination despite all his flaws because the small but influential neoliberal-corporatist class will convince themselves that appealing to the “white working class” is the way to beat Trump and Biden is their option. All the idiotic groundwork has been laid, including a…

1. You made a categorical statement that is indefensible.

A convenient and self-serving thesis from one of this site’s conservative trolls. 

In the Late Bronze Age tin from as far away as southern Spain, Britain, and Afghanistan were regularly used by the major powers in their copper.

Good Gods. Even hardcore 50 year old smokers who will never quit and smoke constantly in their homes don’t leave all that on their floor. I’m talking people who smoke so much even other people who smoke go out for fresh air.

This stupid racist is so ignorant rather than reference an actual ethnic group, country, or any sort of defensible social grouping, he referenced a militant group. Wonder how long he’ll (it’s always a he online) need to Google to find out what ethnic group predominantly makes up the Taliban and how that affects their…

This is privilege run amok. I wish McCain and her husband would disappear into the depths of the sickening right-wing ecosystem they both fuel. 

Go choke on your bigotry you worthless stain on humanity. That’s not a fact. “Western Civilization” doesn’t exist. It’s just a concept used by racists to justify their prejudices. As a historical concept, it’s flimsy and abusive. 

I glossed over his extremely racist and anti-historical “assessment” because it’s worthless. It was widely derided and mocked. Shapiro knows nothing about history. He’s an ideologue, and not a very intelligent one. In the video I’m referencing he tries to claim “the West” had superior higher level thinking and…

Shapiro’s cultists are trying to ratio Buzzfeed for reporting on this claim, which was made in court papers it wasn’t something Buzzfeed developed themselves. It’s a great example of how bad faith is fundamental to modern conservative media.

I think this is still mostly name ID. Biden’s many missteps aren’t hurting him because most voters aren’t paying attention yet. When they do start paying attention I think his relatively hollow policies and tendency towards both-sideism in a year when the electorate is angry and motivated to beat Trump will hurt him.…

This guy is a charlatan, and I feel sorry for the people staring his comments. You’ve been duped by someone who is hopelessly prejudiced against academic historians and believes a bunch of discredited and seemingly bigoted nonsense. 

Hey FYI, everyone who starred this intellectual mess, you might want to keep reading as this guy admits he doesn’t know a damn thing about history and shows his weird ideological fetishes distort what little he does know beyond any utility. All the “academia is bad and wrong!” bullshit is the mark of a charlatan. 

“Not caring to use the term “civilization” to distinguish people who live in cities from pastoralists, roaming tribes and so forth”

Depopulation in what sense? Where are you getting the idea that large areas were depopulated? I know there’s some fifth century Latin texts calling Gaul a “desert” or something similar, but the archaeological record generally shows continuity. There’s a reason Late Roman to Early Medieval continuity is a big theme in…

It’s times like this I’m tempted to respond with absurd Duolingo sentences. Except I always forget the way to make fadas. 

I’m waiting for the Ireland visit because I want to hear him butcher “Taoiseach” on camera. 

This reminded me I need to do my Duolingo lessons. That was actually really helpful I could’ve lost my (completely useless) streak! 

He says it, and his fans believe it in enough numbers that many pieces like this have been written by historians trying, futilely as usual, to hold back the tide of misinformation that separates us from the public on historical topics.