Alt-right mouthpiece gets a terrific lesson on diversity in Roman Britain
The “conservative personality, radio host, writer, and conspiracy theorist” Paul Joseph Watson makes a comment about ethnic diversity on the BBC and gets a wonderful lesson about Roman Britain in return.
Thank God the BBC is portraying Roman Britain as ethnically diverse.
I mean, who cares about historical accuracy, right? pic.twitter.com/SqE83Pmf2h
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) July 25, 2017
Writer and historian Mike Stuchbery wasn’t having any of this. Cue an excellent and informative thread:
Seriously, are you somehow suffering an acquired brain injury, or are you just playing a role for your mouthbreather followers?
— Mike Stuchbery 💀🍷 (@MikeStuchbery_) July 25, 2017
Roman Britain was ethnically diverse, almost by design. To begin, occupying legions were drawn from other parts of the Empire.
— Mike Stuchbery 💀🍷 (@MikeStuchbery_) July 25, 2017
The Romans learned a lesson earlier with the Germans. Don't give the locals an 'in' to occupying military forces.
— Mike Stuchbery 💀🍷 (@MikeStuchbery_) July 25, 2017
We have accounts of 'moors', along with (modern-day) Iraqi & Syrian soldiers on Hadrian's Wall. https://t.co/KmuhwjFLUn
— Mike Stuchbery 💀🍷 (@MikeStuchbery_) July 25, 2017
Every camp in the province (apart from tiny outposts) would have a 'vicus', a settlement where wives, kids, slaves & tradespeople lived…
— Mike Stuchbery 💀🍷 (@MikeStuchbery_) July 25, 2017
…many of the inhabitants of the 'vicus' would travel with the legion, especially if they were considered 'elite'.
— Mike Stuchbery 💀🍷 (@MikeStuchbery_) July 25, 2017
Provincial governors posted to Britannia would take slaves with them (from anywhere in the Empire) & some would have been gifted freedom.
— Mike Stuchbery 💀🍷 (@MikeStuchbery_) July 25, 2017
London, as the capital of the province, was especially diverse. People lived, worked & died together from all over.
— Mike Stuchbery 💀🍷 (@MikeStuchbery_) July 25, 2017
Lant Street Girl was 14 when she died. She came from the southern Mediterranean. https://t.co/AiP4OUIxmZ pic.twitter.com/UH6vIzS5uR
— Mike Stuchbery 💀🍷 (@MikeStuchbery_) July 25, 2017
Spiralfields Woman's DNA can be traced directly to Rome. Probably an aristocrat. https://t.co/KHJmr7PDqW pic.twitter.com/C0R36PgBP5
— Mike Stuchbery 💀🍷 (@MikeStuchbery_) July 25, 2017
Not just London, we have evidence of North Africans as high-status individuals in York. https://t.co/rxMA7DaSjr pic.twitter.com/jfQKVNVxKG
— Mike Stuchbery 💀🍷 (@MikeStuchbery_) July 25, 2017
Every year we dig up new remains that suggest that Roman Britain, anywhere larger than a military outpost, was an ethnically diverse place.
— Mike Stuchbery 💀🍷 (@MikeStuchbery_) July 25, 2017
You can talk proto-fascist edgelord Alt-Right bullshit as much as you want, but you want to talk history, be prepared to be schooled.
— Mike Stuchbery 💀🍷 (@MikeStuchbery_) July 25, 2017
PS. Get fucked.
— Mike Stuchbery 💀🍷 (@MikeStuchbery_) July 25, 2017