Hello everyone! I just thought I would let you all know that I’ve done two interview videos for Nick Barksdale’s YouTube channel “The Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages.” Nick posted the first video on his channel a while ago, but I forgot to announce it on here when he did and, since he posted the second one today, I thought I would bring both of them to my readers’ attention.
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Article Deleted and Restored, 28 May 2021
Earlier today, I published an article titled “Why Laws Banning Transgender Athletes Are Bad.” Within only a few hours, at least three different people who are on my mailing list left comments objecting to this post, insisting to varying degrees that they are sick of my political opinions, that they didn’t sign up for “Tales of the Woke,” and that this blog should be reserved exclusively for content that is immediately relevant to pre-modern history.
I initially decided that these commenters have a point and deleted the post, thinking that those who want to read it could still read it on Quora, where I have published it as an answer. After some more thought, though, I decided that, since I already published the article here, I would restore it.
I have, of course, written about politics on this blog ever since the beginning. One of the very first articles I ever published on this website nearly five years ago in November 2016, when I was much younger and much more naïve, was partially a commentary on the 2016 U.S. presidential election. In the past, however, I have generally kept my commentary on this blog relevant to pre-modern history in some fashion and reserved my less historically relevant commentary for Quora alone. By double-posting my not-at-all-historically-relevant commentary on trans athletes to this blog, some readers evidently felt I crossed a serious line.
My Most Controversial Articles So Far, As of April 2020
People who have been reading my website for a while are probably aware that, at the end of 2019, I wrote a list of my articles that were most popular over the course of that year. At that time, I only had 185 article published. As of today, 25 April 2020, I now have 247 articles published on this website, counting this one.
Since I recently published an article about the ancient Egyptians that has received considerable negative backlash, I’ve decided to give a short list of some of my most controversial articles of all time. These articles are included here based on the number of angry comments that I have received pertaining to them. There are many other articles that I expected to be controversial that have not received many negative comments and are therefore not listed here.
I have included on this list a number of excerpts from various negative comments that have been left on my articles. I have, in some cases, excerpted the passages quoted below from longer comments, but I have not edited any of these passages for spelling, grammar, or punctuation, nor have I removed any kind of offensive language. These passages are completely uncensored.
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I know that lots of blogs that are far more popular than mine often do lists of “top posts” at the end of each year. My blog here is not especially popular; only four of my articles have received more than two thousand views this entire year and the vast majority of my articles have received less than four hundred views all year. Even my most popular articles rarely ever received more than ten views a day.
Nonetheless, I figure I might as well do a list of the articles that have been most popular this year just for the fun of it. Besides, I figure a list like this one may offer my followers an opportunity to see some of my older articles that have been popular this year that they may not have read yet.
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