oytotheworld:

YOU ARE NOT A HISTORIAN

You did not go to university to study history. The word “historiography” is a word you thought I made up. Chicago Manual/Turabian/Rampolla citation method is a foreign concept to you. You haven’t even spent a whole year studying a specific topic. You aren’t published either. You’ve read the wikipedia entry on the Dark Ages and you think you’ve got it all sorted out. So yeah, tell me how you’re a “historian” compared to me? (You are an English major. I am a History major.)

I think that if someone thinks going to college and studying something automatically makes them something special and also automatically makes them more qualified than someone else, I think that they are fucking clueless about life. 

Since you’re a history major, perhaps you should look into how people became experts before universities. Most people studied under specialists or read manuscripts or what I like to call analog wikipedia texts. 

There’s nothing I hate more than someone who thinks going to college makes them more qualified than those that didn’t. The shit they teach you in school is also found on the internet. Thank you very much.