Classical historian’s support for accuracy of educational video draws fire from US academic, but support from President Clinton’s former intern and other stars
Public figures from Monica Lewinsky to JK Rowling and Diane Abbott are lining up to support Mary Beard, after the the classical historian found herself at the centre of a storm of Twitter abuse at the weekend.
Beard came under fire after she wrote that a BBC educational video that showed a black Roman soldier was “pretty accurate”. The video, uploaded to YouTube by the BBC last December, had been criticised by some viewers as being anachronistic, but Beard wrote on Twitter that “there’s plenty of firm evidence for ethnic diversity in Roman Britain”.
Beard said "accurate" which got me going. Then backtracked
Then misrepresented the exchange abt credentials.
Then used the feminist cover. http://pic.twitter.com/FOKqWJ6JXm
Related: Mary Beard: I almost didn't feel such generic, violent misogyny was about me
Look at all these men, none of whom are historians calling names to academic historian @wmarybeard, because she asked for evidence? Amazing. https://t.co/KvwWmngWCG
Similar figures from other urban sites too eg. Roman London, where 24% of ppl studied were of prob African ancestry: https://t.co/0J25h6exRA
A high IQ and an area or two of expertise do not give you license to claim superiority over all other experts in THEIR areas of expertise
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