“I’m going to be reading the opening poem”
“Blah blah I was an anarchist and a communist, I’m bougie as shit and got into purity politics and WHY CAN’T we just be nice?!?!?”
Like seriously in the opening remarks for a lecture on the Salem Witch Trials?
Wtf Harvard?
Margaret Murray was a garbage historian.
But you pay no attention to my scathing criticism of the lack of rigor of notable new left feminists. I see how it is.
MIDWIVES WERE NOT PERSECUTED DURING THE WITCH TRIALS
Cause you know what? The victims of witch trials weren’t fucking witches, they were just people who were unpopular and a convenient scapegoat when people got sick or had a bad harvest or whatever. They didn’t do anything, they were not what they were accused of being and your bullshit is actually gross and insulting, because it implies you believe the mass hysteria of the time. It’s bad history and its disrespectful. That said I think the fact that the majority of the time the people they went after were women says a lot about who society looks to when it needs a scapegoat.
Thoughts From The Peacock Angel 