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ᛟ⛅️holyweather⛈️ᚹ retweeted
You have to love academic opinions that you can refute by picking up Shakespeare. 16th century England apparently keenly aware which "happy breed" they belonged to
What is this English ethnicity that "simply exists"? The Saxons? The Normans? Did you know that the term English was applied to the low-born who were ruled after the Norman conquest? Did the English know that they were English before the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
I know this is Twitter and that everything goes. It so happens that there are people who have devoted their whole career to the study of these issues too here, so I suggest you read a few history books before making absurd claims on an eternal English essence. I can suggest a reading list if you want.
ᛟ⛅️holyweather⛈️ᚹ retweeted
To deny the very existence of a people is a profoundly inhumane position - a level of aggression applied to no other group.
Disgusting. teapaw.org/WilliamClouston/status…
I’m convinced one of the reasons Australian schools consistently idealise Aboriginal culture is that the reality is so atrocious that children ought not be exposed to it & we find it too distasteful to speak of. Many other such unspeakable topics are swept under the carpet too.
ᛟ⛅️holyweather⛈️ᚹ retweeted
In fact it's stage 4 of the fabled 10 stages of genocide.
We're further down these tracks than most are capable of ever admitting.
It is important to understand that this kind of rhetoric can be pre-genocidal.
The "as a concept" or "as a belief" works as a shield to allow you to say things like "abolish x" or "abolish the x" which imply actual destruction or minoritization of the ethnic group without actually directly being accused of incitement.
Denying that an ethnic category exists or is entitled to recognition can serve as an early rhetorical step that weakens resistance to later policies affecting the group’s numbers, territory, or cultural continuity. Especially if combined with affirming the existence or validity of belief in other ethnic groups.
ᛟ⛅️holyweather⛈️ᚹ retweeted
This was posted by the Scottish government at exactly 11am on Remembrance Sunday. They later posted something about climate change, but nothing about Remembrance Sunday. Absolute scum.
ᛟ⛅️holyweather⛈️ᚹ retweeted
To deny the very existence of a people is a profoundly inhumane position - a level of aggression applied to no other group.
Disgusting.
As a child, I once swallowed too much water at once & it hurt my throat. A family friend said I’d “swallowed a key”. That was the first and last time I ever heard that saying. Just thought you all ought to know.
ᛟ⛅️holyweather⛈️ᚹ retweeted
Remarkable to consider. The tribes of the Migration Era that finally brought Rome to her knees and claimed her old colonies mainly came from this little area - and they also went North into Scandinavia and changed Germanic culture everywhere so that their god Woden became the main one even in the Viking Age.
-The Langobards who took Italy in 568 AD came from Jutland.
-The Saxons and Angles who took Britannia in 449 AD came from this area.
-The Franks who took Gaul between 486 and 507 AD originated in the Rhine-Weser region.
These people all spoke one language and worshipped the same gods, but the kings focused on one frenzied deity who brought them victory - Woden.
Not only did this swampy region produce the main characters of the Germanic world who introduced the new culture of runes, kings and halls- but they above all (with the help also of the Goths who came from Sweden) are responsible for reshaping all of Europe in the Migration Age - indeed the Franks practically invented the idea of Europe as we now know it.
Not a phenomenon from all Germania, not even all of the modern region of Germany - just this little circle.
There's a gap in the market for someone to replace hi-viz vests with something equally safe but much more beautiful
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