Thread by @sentantiq

#SundayNightMiniRant

Over the past few days as we have made many tweets with clear political messages and added some posts of the same character, we have had a more than a few followers complain about political content (1/10)

Many of the complaints were similar to last year's demands that we stay unpolitical or face unfollowing.

sententiaeantiquae.com/2017/12/09/nei… (2/10)

We do want to share the love, wisdom, and wonder from the ancient world and bring enlightenment and joy where possible, but studying antiquity and its inheritance is not simply about admiration, adulation, and emulation.
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sententiaeantiquae.com/2018/06/01/the…

Claiming to study the past with claims of ideological neutrality is either naive or purposefully disingenuous. We have been clear about this and are fairly clear about our political beliefs. (4/10)

But here's something else: if studying the vices and virtues of the past and learning from the mistakes human beings make repeatedly in different contexts or figuring out where people have made real, meaningful changes cannot make us better people, it is silly and vain. (5/10)

We live in a country whose government is increasingly irresponsible, is undermining the limited protections for the most exposed, and is allowing wealth and health to grow to only a small percentage. Racism and misogyny is being used as a tool to divide and control us. (6/10)

We are destroying the environment, covertly murdering globally. Now this country's government in whose acts we are all complicit builds camps for children within our borders. The logic of these camps is based on class and race.

nytimes.com/2018/09/30/us/…

h/t .@Lollardfish (7/10)

What use is our learning, our ability to communicate, and our intelligence if we do not speak up about injustice? This, I think, is the very minimum qualification for being a decent human being. (8/10)

Learning when and when not to speak is a classical trope.

sententiaeantiquae.com/2018/05/02/som… (9/10)

I am sure we have said the wrong things at time and will make many mistakes. But we are, to paraphrase #Aristotle, political animals. To try not to be so is to allow ourselves to be de-humanized. (10/10)