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So we have been doing a family holiday project for a few years...
2015 Mattatall Gingerbread Project: it all began with a grade 8 math project
#Gingerbread #popculture #FamilyOfNerds #StarWars
2016 Mattatall Gingerbread Project: the house teen was obsessed with a film about flesh wounds
#Gingerbread #popculture #FamilyOfNerds #MontyPython
2017 Mattatall Gingerbread Project: we were all obsessed with a little Duffer Brothers sci-fi horror series
#Gingerbread #popculture #FamilyOfNerds #Upsidedown
2018 Mattatall Gingerbread Project: house teen wanted to explore moments in rock history (my favourite so far so deserves two tweets!)
#Gingerbread #popculture #FamilyOfNerds #ClassicRock 🤟🏻🎸
https://t.co/wCIRni2nSl
2015 Mattatall Gingerbread Project: it all began with a grade 8 math project
#Gingerbread #popculture #FamilyOfNerds #StarWars
2016 Mattatall Gingerbread Project: the house teen was obsessed with a film about flesh wounds
#Gingerbread #popculture #FamilyOfNerds #MontyPython
2017 Mattatall Gingerbread Project: we were all obsessed with a little Duffer Brothers sci-fi horror series
#Gingerbread #popculture #FamilyOfNerds #Upsidedown
2018 Mattatall Gingerbread Project: house teen wanted to explore moments in rock history (my favourite so far so deserves two tweets!)
#Gingerbread #popculture #FamilyOfNerds #ClassicRock 🤟🏻🎸
https://t.co/wCIRni2nSl
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Mashing the Bernie meme; Know Nothings, conspiratorialism and Pastel Q; and more!
Archived at: https://t.co/cKWPSzuYHE
#Pluralistic
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Mashing the Bernie meme: What if every video game, except Bernie with mittens?
https://t.co/Zcs71oUras
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Inside: Mashing the Bernie meme; Know Nothings, conspiratorialism and Pastel Q; and more!
Archived at: https://t.co/cKWPSzuYHE
#Pluralistic
1/
Mashing the Bernie meme: What if every video game, except Bernie with mittens?
https://t.co/Zcs71oUras
2/
The remix culture of the early 2000s left an indelible impression on me, an enduring delight in the power of whimsy, juxtaposition, virtuosity and ingenuity - and the ability of strangers all over the world to collaborate without any explicit coordination.
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) January 31, 2021
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I just finished Eric Adler's The Battle of the Classics, and wanted to say something about Joel Christiansen's review linked below. I am not sure what motivates the review (I speculate a bit below), but it gives a very misleading impression of the book. 1/x
The meat of the criticism is that the history Adler gives is insufficiently critical. Adler describes a few figures who had a great influence on how the modern US university was formed. It's certainly critical: it focuses on the social Darwinism of these figures. 2/x
Other insinuations and suggestions in the review seem wildly off the mark, distorted, or inappropriate-- for example, that the book is clickbaity (it is scholarly) or conservative (hardly) or connected to the events at the Capitol (give me a break). 3/x
The core question: in what sense is classics inherently racist? Classics is old. On Adler's account, it begins in ancient Rome and is revived in the Renaissance. Slavery (Christiansen's primary concern) is also very old. Let's say classics is an education for slaveowners. 4/x
It's worth remembering that literacy itself is elite throughout most of this history. Literacy is, then, also the education of slaveowners. We can honor oral and musical traditions without denying that literacy is, generally, good. 5/x
As someone\u2019s who\u2019s read the book, this review strikes me as tremendously unfair. It mostly faults Adler for not writing the book the reviewer wishes he had! https://t.co/pqpt5Ziivj
— Teresa M. Bejan (@tmbejan) January 12, 2021
The meat of the criticism is that the history Adler gives is insufficiently critical. Adler describes a few figures who had a great influence on how the modern US university was formed. It's certainly critical: it focuses on the social Darwinism of these figures. 2/x
Other insinuations and suggestions in the review seem wildly off the mark, distorted, or inappropriate-- for example, that the book is clickbaity (it is scholarly) or conservative (hardly) or connected to the events at the Capitol (give me a break). 3/x
The core question: in what sense is classics inherently racist? Classics is old. On Adler's account, it begins in ancient Rome and is revived in the Renaissance. Slavery (Christiansen's primary concern) is also very old. Let's say classics is an education for slaveowners. 4/x
It's worth remembering that literacy itself is elite throughout most of this history. Literacy is, then, also the education of slaveowners. We can honor oral and musical traditions without denying that literacy is, generally, good. 5/x