Cleopatra

The Cleopatra-race discourse is hot just now, but, like most ancient historians, I have no energy for it. These arguments have been had, the evidence has been thoroughly gone over, and there’s no new ground to cover, so we might as well just have fun with the people who care way too much about one answer or another.

Critical

(Two academics walking with coffee)
A: So, a bunch of politicians are now worried that I'm teaching critical race theory. What do they want, a trigger warning on the syllabus?
B: Why do you do this to yourself?

It’s impressive how fast the “Students must confront the harsh truths about the world” crowd turned into the “Students must not be made to confront the harsh truths about the world” crowd when it turned out that one of the harsh truths is “Racism isn’t solved yet.”