"A history that prioritizes spectacular but brief violence against elites while downplaying millennia of elite violence against everyone else isn’t really history; it’s propaganda."

HeavenlyPossum (@HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social)

I’d be remiss if I failed to note that my correspondent’s argument is not only empirically wrong, but also deeply morally repugnant. All of these systems—American chattel slavery, the feudalism of an...