curtisdozier.bsky.social
Documenting White Nationalist Appropriation of Greco-Roman Antiquity at pharosclassics.vassar.edu
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Luckily there are other good reasons to read books, including ones that might be more persuasive to kids! like fun! (with the right book)
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A few years ago I shared a version of my syllabus. It's a good course and the students get a lot out of it. "Classical Rhetoric" is capacious enough to say something valuable the current landscape. But it's hard to give up the pull of trad. political speech/media www.academia.edu/35562142/Cla...
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The classicizing temple logo is just a bonus
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pics or it didn't happen lol
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It's like what are the odds for these kinds of texts
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Sarah you totally had me going with "Xbox President Sarah Bond"
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Thanks for the shoutout...I've been away from the news for the week while speaking in Spain about Classics and European dictatorships (marginaliaclassica.es/recepcion-cl...). What is this text from? Announcement of visa denials to EU/UK citizens?
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And now it's driving government policy etc etc as
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& others are saying. It only took a few years. I've added the knowledge that Greco-Roman antiquity played a role in establishing and promoting it but that's such trivial addition in comparison to what the theory has done
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It was bad enough that the conspiracy theory was inspring lone wolf terrorists. But Robert Pape's research on the Jan 6 insurrection found that belief in the Great Replacement conspiracy theory was the "key driver" of participation in the attack 5/ d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/cpost/i/docs...
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But since then White genocide has become utterly mainstream. Tucker Carlson did a *ton* to promote it, as many people here know 4/ www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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(incidentally I find it hilarious that in his English translation Camus moved the discussion of Plato to the end, whereas he led with it in the original French edition. He didn't think it would be as persuasive to American white nationalists as to French ones) 3/
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If anyone had heard of Camus' "Great Replacement" in those days it was because of reporting on the manifestos of racist mass murdered who cited it. Camus begins with a discussion of a Platonic dialogue 2/ pharos.vassarspaces.net/2019/10/07/g...
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Also I donate annually!
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Is that the same Pantokrator in the apse that the Da Vinci Code portrays?
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The hosting organization, Marginalia Classica, is worth checking out for anyone interested in Classical Reception. marginaliaclassica.es
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Here's the program: marginaliaclassica.es/wp-content/u...
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History that doesn't just clarify the historical record (which of course is important) but history that links that clarification to the rejection of the white supremacist ideology of the present
Here's that link again: www.classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/mik...
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As the current administration erases the contributions of Black Americans to national defense and just generally promotes racist pseudoscience and anti-Blackness more generally @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social 's piece is an example of this kind of history we need... 5/
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But the WN intellectuals whose thought Musk has adopted can't just leave it at that: they have to say that this source of strength was also Rome's greatest weakness, because this openness (allegedly) promoted race mixing and decline. That part is just a white supremacist fantasy (well, nightmare)4/
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One of these white nationalist intellectuals recognizes, some will be surprised to learn, that Rome's relative openness to outsiders was a source of strength (military and otherwise) for it. @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social 's post documents that very well. 3/
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Why do I need such a thing? The post is about how Musk's contempt for empathy mirrors White Nationalist critiques (yes!) of "Western Civilization" 2/ pharos.vassarspaces.net/2025/04/25/e...
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lol some things never change
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@renskejanssen.bsky.social has an interesting chapter on the politics of comparisons with early persecuted Christians in the Open access volume "Classical Controversies." Such comparisons span the political spectrum, it's not just hate groups that do it. www.sidestone.com/books/classi...
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Thanks for the reference
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And anywhere you go you find Pericles "the great Athenian statesman" and Pericles "the great Athenian orator" (propagandist) etc. Which makes me think the history of authoritarian democracy is not so much unknown as it is celebrated and idealized
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Maybe this is an obvious point to those who know but literally just last week you have Roger Kimball (architect of war on higher) writing about how we need a new Pericles and then some lesser right wing blogger responding about how Reagan was Pericles. 2/
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No I'm just having a hard time keeping up with everything. I always learn a ton when I read about Medievalisms
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I have not! Thank you!
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Example one million of how the current assault on higher education started a loooong time ago