one of the most baffling aspects of academic house style to me is the implicit presumption that the person reading your paper lacks the information literacy to research and validate the intellectual groundwork upon which you make your claims if you don¦t point them to a literal book on the subject first
“the Eurocentric worldview measures and validates things in reference to European values and paradigms [two citations]” thanks, buddy. i never would have guessed
this one is enjoyable, at least
https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1013&context=dlj
@Lady makes lots of sense if the point is to assist journalists. Unfortunately, they've never been much good at reading the cites
@Lady i was told in college that obvious and widely recognized claims did not need citations and in fact probably shouldn’t be cited because doing so is misleading
@Satsuma i am glad history has better standards than legal studies
@Lady i feel like my legal studies professors were also of this opinion but i will grant that it can be a bit harder to know what is an obvious and widely accepted claim in a cross disciplinary context
though this one feels obvious enough that theres really no excuse
there is a lot of “i feel this claim needs evidence but it is also obvious and widely‐recognized and has a whole school of literature about it so i just picked the top search result” going on here
for example, “indigenous and local communities were colonial subjects and victims [three random citations]”