Honestly, this blog post reads just like really whiney culture war "pc culture has gone amok!" than an actual attempt at criticising academic history. Refusing

Honestly, this blog post reads just like really whiney culture war "pc culture has gone amok!" than an actual attempt at criticising academic history. Refusing to even engage in the slightest with the theories and methodologies and doing the equivalent of standing with your hands on your hips and saying "its just wrong!" is lame. Stuff like this: >> But, c’mon. To state the obvious - and it seems we must - there were vanishingly few black people in London in the mid-fourteenth century ... I haven’t been able to find hard data/evidence on non-white people in London in the fourteenth century. I think the consensus is there were only a handful. David Olsuga’s history of black Britons doesn’t mention any. Okay, so you feel confident enough that you build up this claim about "having to state the obvious" but then end up with afootnote of "oh yeah so, cant find anything to back this up but uhhh like...I think consensus is this.". or even more egregious, stuff like this: >>Look, I haven’t carried out a full investigation of this paper >>It is just obviously bullshit >>As for “African cosmologies” - I don’t know, and I suspect they don’t either. Really just highlights how much the blogger here cares about actually engaging with the scholarly work and how much he's more interested in just playing up the culture war nonsense for viewership. Getting all snarky about esoteric jargon in a field and claiming its "all bullshit" really just highlights ones disdain for having even the slightest bit of humility and maybe finding out what it means. One Google search and you can find a lengthy Encyclopedia.com article about African cosmologies, explaining the concept and what it means. Rolling your eyes at technical jargon you don't understand is really childish.