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Larry Shell's avatar

Honest to God I was many paragraphs in before I recognized satire…that speaks to the level of academic insanity we are living with now. SMH.

Benjamin Morse's avatar

Thank you for sticking with it!

BeadleBlog's avatar

I did a little better, making it halfway through the second paragraph before it dawned on me. A sign of the insanity of the times. Brutal and hilarious.

Sly Fawkes's avatar

It really does read like a Queer Theory thesis written by a Gender Studies major.

Just plain Rivka's avatar

It’s such great writing. As always. Creative and clever.

Such tragic lives. Hard to accept that people had to live like that.

Benjamin Morse's avatar

And yet people excuse it and today turn their heads away to focus exclusively on we all know what.

Just plain Rivka's avatar

Because it puts “first world problems” into context. And that obligates us to do better because we were given more.

Matt Osborne's avatar

He's that good.

Inger's avatar

I tremble in anticipation at a future that might see me elevated to concubine, or if my gender identity flexes, a eunuch. I submit to the glory.

Benjamin Morse's avatar

You’re gonna love it!

Thomas P. Balazs's avatar

This might be the best book review I’ve ever read

Benjamin Morse's avatar

Thank you and 😂

Linda McLaughlin's avatar

Brilliant analysis 👍👏

Linda McLaughlin's avatar

Hilarious and witty ! 😘😘

Kilo's avatar

One other element that kept the regional trade flourishing was that the sub-Saharan migrants to North Africa were so enthusiastic about their new vocations in the mines and quarries of their Arab benefactors, that they often forgot to rest, or eat and drink sufficiently to remain viably able-bodied for a long period. Fortunately, the benevolent sultans or whatever they were identifying as at the time, had instituted their own version of Canada's MAID program, being enlightened so far ahead of their time.

Benjamin Morse's avatar

Wonderfully queer insight

Kazimierz Bem's avatar

These harems were such open safe-spaces for womenx and eunuchsx! Sooooo progressive!

Sir Tricky the Grey's avatar

Thank you for your powerful and illuminating work on decolonizing slavery

Better Days Are A Toenail Away's avatar

This is a masterpiece of satire.

I especially enjoyed the repurposing of that toothless phrase, "ways of knowing."

Josh Reilly's avatar

I was about to get pissed off when I decided this must be a parody of woke BS history. God I hope so...

Edward  Campbell's avatar

Hilarious!

Jan Jorgensen's avatar

Droll satirical orientalism.

Mike Walker's avatar

This was soup herb.

Teed Rockwell's avatar

Ha Ha. Very funny except for the fact that this book is attacking the positions you're accusing it of advocating.

Robert Labossiere's avatar

Seriously, I am afraid to subscribe.

Kathleen Lowrey's avatar

You do know Jews were key operators in the trans Atlantic slave trade, right?

Benjamin Morse's avatar

Some were yes. Slavery was pretty much the norm throughout history and across the globe until the 19th Century, and the book was about the little discussed but vast trade in the Islamic world.

Moodieonroody's avatar

Black people white people ... what's your poiht?

Luke's avatar

Would you please define "key operators" in the context of your question? My understanding is that Jews played a very minor, peripheral role in the transatlantic slave trade. I'd be interested to know if there's something I've missed.

NW Luna's avatar

Citation, please.

Middle's avatar

Given that they are behind every negative thing that has ever happened in human history, there's no need to nitpick over inanities like historic fact!! ;p

Moodieonroody's avatar

haha yeah - you lost your glasses and it was the jooooooos

Moodieonroody's avatar

Where dyou get that? Sources of 'evidence' required else looks like you're just a jew hater - ami right ?