sovay: (I Claudius)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2019-10-16 04:41 pm

Triple-check my persona

[personal profile] spatch, reading a tweet from the White House: "'The United States and Italy are bound together by a shared cultural and political heritage dating back thousands of years to Ancient Rome.'"

Me, a classicist: "Oh! That'd be the fascism!"
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[personal profile] sara 2019-10-17 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
I found it striking that the NYT reproduced it in its entirety, which is certainly...what passes for courageous critical commentary from them nowadays.