#History

Some people have been asking me why I'm so sure that we're going to be OK amidst the #COVID19 pandemic. I keep telling everyone that while this is going to
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Netflix paid a rich white man to travel the world? To see how to "fix" it?? Is this colonizer propaganda???https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1281617626204999686 The last thing any of us need is to see
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8. The dress code of European women at one time was severely restrictive. Apart from the face no part of the body was exposed. But over the years, more and
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I was a full-time PhD student at the University of Cambridge 2009-2012, completing and passing the doctorate in 2013 and graduating in 2014. During this time and afterwards I supervised
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Recently, an International PhD student submitted an application for a position I have open. Their pitch to me in their cover letter is "I don't have an accent". Let's just
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them: what are your pronouns??me: tsi/ agi/ ga, ini/ gini,osdi/ ogini, otsi/ ogi, idi/ igi this is why i say "any pronouns" in English... my language doesn't teach he/him, she/her,
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I won’t explain why I was learning about this (I’m a baseball nerd and I’m playing a nerdy baseball computer game rn lol) but I found out about this Japanese
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Wilt Chamberlain has some of the craziest stats in NBA history. Now, some people will claim that these numbers are inflated due to high pace. While there certainly is some
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I ruffled a few feathers in a twitter thread today because I said sermons should not be longer than 35 minutes. As someone who has an MA in homiletics, has
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One of my favourite stories of Islamic history is the acceptance of Islam by Hind binte Utbah. I am fascinated and enthralled by this story. We all know who Hinda
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CW: Politics! It shouldn’t be a surprise to ANYONE where I stand on this. But since not saying much is saying a lot these days, let’s be clear: for people
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Kashi Viswanath mandir’s history of vandalism :1. Aibak as commander of Ghori -1192,2. Either by Hussain Shah Sharqi (1447–1458), or Sikandar Lodhi (1489–1517)3. Shahjahan wanted to destroy it in 1632,
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Black girl confession #372"Let’s be real. Divest twitter are just hoteps, but in luxe. They don’t get care about burning no capes. Majority of them are so quick to scream
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if you're stuck in "Islam was spread by the sword" I'm not even gonna hesitate to mute or block you because I did not study Islamic history to get into
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"I take full responsibility. It's not my fault."https://twitter.com/JayCaruso/status/1319707381484322816 The larger conflict isn't between people who prefer one candidate or another, one set of policies or another.It's
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So tonight my daughter, after articulating to me how she explained cultural appropriation in class today (she's 8, and I have @tiffanymjewell's book to thank), asked me a mountain of
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