@aud
LOL *Hein*-ous

@aud
Just checked some of my old journal PDFs, and it looks like most of the recent law review articles are open access, but older stuff is often only available through commercial databases—and then HeinOnlilne is *way* preferable to some of the others, especially ProQuest which is abysmal in every way.

@aud
HeinOnline is a legit journal database (insofar as for-profit academic publishing is ever legit, of course)—they’re sort of like JSTOR for legal scholarship, except for-profit.

I’ve used them before, because some of my research on race and migration overlaps with legal scholarship on citizenship law. Some of the stuff they index is indeed open access, but I thought there was a bunch of paywalled law journals I could only get to via HeinOnline (through my uni library, of course).

@aud
That is, ‘appropriation’ looks different in this context than in some others, because Greeks—as fairly prosperous Europeans—are in a different position in global hierarchies of power than, say, Indigenous folks in South Dakota or Western Australia, or any number of poor nonwestern societies.
@datarama @xgranade

@aud
I think that today, very few Greeks view this kind of thing in terms of cultural appropriation, because the idea that classical Greece is the foundation for all of Western civilization—and therefore part of the shared cultural heritage of humanity—is quite flattering to Greek nationalists. But this is also connected to Greeks’ ‘promotion’ to (conditional) whiteness in the contemporary world—and Greece’s tourist economy, which benefits from Westerners’ pilgrimages.
@datarama @xgranade

@aud
Sorry for resurrecting a dead thread, but your comment about using “Norse/Greek names” is interesting to me because of the way that white supremacists historically appropriated ancient Greek stuff as part of their white heritage (now usually called ‘Western’ but functionally the same thing) while denying the whiteness of modern Greeks.
@datarama @xgranade

@aud
just unbelievable

One of the most shameful legacies of American xenophobia: adults, adopted from overseas as children, who have lived here all their lives, denied citizenship because their adoptive parents screwed up visa paperwork decades ago <https://apnews.com/article/adoption-citizenship-immigration-congress-0c71631786c35f7042ff99726e9dcd23>.

Imagine being in your 50s and having no memory of your country of birth, facing being deported there because the only country you know considers you an ‘illegal alien’.

How did I manage to miss this when it happened? <https://www.npr.org/2016/04/07/473339332/unfortunate-acronym-forces-law-school-name-change>

When GMU decided to name their law school for Scalia, they initially announced it as “the Anton Scalia School of Law”—ASSOL.

LOL.

it’s funny how different scholarly fields can tangle on my timeline—here I can’t help reading ‘“close friends”’ (in scare quotes) as a euphemism for a certain kind of romantic relationship that historians were terrified of talking about for generations...
<https://astrodon.social/@spacetelescope/113345996356064167>

them: “Government should operate like a business”

*government gives billions of dollars in subsidies to a for-profit corporation*

me: “So the government’s getting an equity stake in the business they just capitalized, right?”

them: “OMG no, that would be communism”