@xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy
Associate Professor of History at SLAC (NY, USA). Not representing employer.
Interests: power and the production of historical knowledge, public history, historical […]
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@xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyReposting every Monday until, for some reason, I can’t.
Not shocked
Not awed.
Not caving.
Not scared.
Not blinking.
Not packing it in.
Not coming to heel.
Not building bridges.
Not extending grace.
Not asking permission.
Not accepting the lies.
Not quitting.
Ever.
@xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy2500 at the protest. 2500 at the rally. Per syracuse.com.
@tsutrav.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyThis is such a cool print of a necessary reminder. “History From Below” is a corrective lens with which to look back in history for lessons for the present day: where “from below” means all the rest of us, the "99%" if you will, who toil below the minority ruling class….History From Below is […]
@xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyReposted by @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gySomething I wrote in October 2024 about Trump’s toxic rhetoric. I wish I could point to some improvement here. We’re all responsible for what we inject into the public discourse.
https://progressive.org/op-eds/trumps-rhetoric-is-frightening-and-toxic-karn-20241029/
@xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyReposted by @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy“Each time we show solidarity with others, or support those who are protecting the rule of law, helping the targeted, or exposing the lies and the corruption, we are standing up for democratic values of justice, accountability, equality, and more. In doing so, we model the behaviors the […]
@xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyReposted by @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gySalt City loves democracy.
@xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gySalt City loves democracy.
@xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyReposted by @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyRun through the tape. No letting up.
Trump is coming to Syracuse today to stump for Blakeman. He’ll be his indecent self.
We can be better.
@xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyReposted by @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyTrump rally in Syracuse. En route.
@xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyReposted by @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyMany minds in America are impervious to reality. The president’s must not be one of them, if democracy is to survive.
@xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyReposted by @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyHistorian Ruth Ben-Ghiat on America’s moral collapse and the possibility of moral reconstitution.
https://lucid.substack.com/p/we-are-living-through-moral-collapse
@xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyReposted by @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyGenocide and large-scale human rights infringements unfold at the end of a chain of intellectual judgments and political interventions. The act must first become conceivable. Conceivable must be made reasonable. Reasonable must be coded as justifiable. Justifiable is then made lawful. Not […]
@xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyTrump rally in Syracuse. En route.
@xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyMany minds in America are impervious to reality. The president’s must not be one of them, if democracy is to survive.
@xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyReposted by @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy“What happens if the cultivated language is made up of poisonous elements or has been made the bearer of poisons? Words can be like tiny doses of arsenic; they are swallowed unnoticed, appear to have no effect, and then after a little time, the toxic reaction sets in.” —Victor Klemperer
@xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyGenocide and large-scale human rights infringements unfold at the end of a chain of intellectual judgments and political interventions. The act must first become conceivable. Conceivable must be made reasonable. Reasonable must be coded as justifiable. Justifiable is then made lawful. Not […]
@xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyRun through the tape. No letting up.
Trump is coming to Syracuse today to stump for Blakeman. He’ll be his indecent self.
We can be better.
@xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyHistorian Ruth Ben-Ghiat on America’s moral collapse and the possibility of moral reconstitution.
https://lucid.substack.com/p/we-are-living-through-moral-collapse
@xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyThere are still tens of millions rightly sickened by this prospect. I take your point, but humanity is in the balance. It’s still there if enough want and demand it.
@xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy“Each time we show solidarity with others, or support those who are protecting the rule of law, helping the targeted, or exposing the lies and the corruption, we are standing up for democratic values of justice, accountability, equality, and more. In doing so, we model the behaviors the […]
