Me: I don’t really believe in gatekeeping a field where anyone can learn with enough work. The training we get in academia isn’t impossible to self-teach.
Also me: The number of people calling themselves “historians” or pretending to educate about history on social media when they’re just reading Wiki or telling you fun facts is way too high. The job title has meaning. You wouldn’t call yourself a mathematician for knowing how to make your graphing calculator make graphs.
Do I want to add tags to this? No, it will reach my intended audience of “people who are tired of history fun fact Tik Tok videos” anyway
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