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Why Stone-Faced Fascists Keep Getting Antiquity Wrong (www.thebulwark.com)
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Online bigotry masquerading as a love of history in the fever swamps of Elon Musk’s X.

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[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

I’d say that Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” speaks the lie to this in a nicely subversive way.

It paints medieval politics as being devoutly religious, and the people… not so much.