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30 Nov 20, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Tweet threads so far: history, historiography, and takedowns of Nazi ideology.

Source analysis of the National Socialist 25 point program and debunking of the claim that Nazis were socialists:
More context and debunking on the 25 point program:
And even more context, including an explainer on historiography:
On Ron Chernow's White House Correspondence Dinner speech, what it means to do history, and how pop history can be a problem:
On elections, concessions, and how our contexts shape our views on history:
On the 1776 Commission Report (or who's behind it):

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Torsten Kathke Profile picture
18 Jan
Many others are already parsing the report of the 1776 Commission. This much here: It's a propagandist hack job.

What interested me were the people involved with it.

(They're pretty much who you would expect them to be.) Larry P. Arnn, Chair Carol ...
Larry P. Arnn, Chair: Ph.D. in Government. Not a historian.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_P._… In 2013, Arnn was criticize...
Carol M. Swain, Vice Chair. Ph.D. in Political Science. Not a historian.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_M._… Her methodology was critici...
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Torsten Kathke Profile picture
17 Jan
Wie @HeikoMaas das da formuliert ist es eine ganz schlechte Idee.

1: Grundrechte gelten für alle. Sie können aus triftigen Gründen entweder individuell oder allgemein eingeschränkt werden.

"Grundrechte zurück nach Bringschuld Impfung" ist höchst problematisch v.a. wenn:
2: erst einmal gar nicht alle geimpft werden können.

Wenn geimpft-Status plötzlich doppelt freieres Leben (keine Angst mehr um die Krankheit plus Restaurantbesuche etc.) für einige aber nicht alle bedeutet ist das eine perfide gesellschaftliche Zweiteilung.
Für ggf. Monate, in denen es immer schwerer wird zu erklären warum der Nachbar grade aus der Kneipe kommt an der ich nur vorbeilaufen darf obwohl ich auch impfbereit bin.

Das strengt die für eine Mammutaufgabe wie die Pandemiebekämpfung nötige Solidarität über die Maßen an.
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7 Jan
It will matter greatly what the news media calls the events of January 6 going forward.

Do we have a coup? A putsch? An insurrection? The storming of the Capitol? Trumpist terrorism? Will there be a pithy shorthand, and if so, will it be reasonably accurate and descriptive?
As a historian, what watching the attack unfold on television brought home to me is once again something basic but often forgotten in the mythologizations of public remembrance:

The people who did this are extremely normal. Despite their wild conspiracies.
There are millions like them. Millions who approve, millions who don't approve but don't not approve enough to care, millions who see this assault on democracy and order as something noble.

They will not go away.

If there is no reckoning, this will get worse.
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6 Jan
McConnell playing the good democrat is whiplash-inducing.
Ah there's the Democrat-blaming and bothsidesing. Was worried for a minute he might forget to go there.
Schumer's kicking off shining city on a hill time.
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26 Dec 20
Weird reason. Tweet from Prager U with in...
And also at least questionable.
mentalfloss.com/article/526291…
H/t to @manwithoutatan for pointing out the existence of this execrable piece of Confederate apologia plus random Lee "facts" of questionable truth value to me.
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8 Nov 20
This.

Normalize reading articles, not just headlines. From the NYT piece:

"I don’t think anybody who is not on the internet in a real way in the Year of our Lord 2020 and loses an election can blame anyone else when you’re not even really on the internet."
The main point AOC is making in the New York Times is about *how* to run a campaign, not *what* the message should be.

She's not shy about pushing her progressive brand of politics, but if that's your main takeaway from the criticism, you're misreading the interview.
"If you’re not door-knocking, if you’re not on the internet, if your main points of reliance are TV and mail, then you’re not running a campaign on all cylinders. I just don’t see how anyone could be making ideological claims when they didn’t run a full-fledged campaign."
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