Stop. You are only digging a bigger hole for yourself. If you don’t like Early Medieval England (which is not racist btw) then suggest something else as an alt to the actually racist phrase Anglo-Saxon.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @dramdarcy
Thing is, Early Medieval England isn't (as far as I'm aware) any more exclusionary than Anglo-Saxon. If it were being advertised as "British" (which it isn't) or "Insular" then yes, it would be erasing Celtic peoples. As it is, AS as a term also excludes Celtic peoples.
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Of the two, Early Medieval England is ahistoric, but no more so than AS, and it doesn't carry the legacy of white supremacy to the same extent that AS does. It means teachers have to be careful to avoid suggesting England as a nation was inevitable, but that was already the case.
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Replying to @Liminalitea @dramdarcy
Anglo-Saxon is also ahistorical. There is no medieval phrase that is “Anglo-Saxon”. It was a racist term from the 18th c. Erik Wade discusses this on his own twitter just awhile ago, you can look through my replies or RTs for it.
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Yes, but earlier Aenglisc is used to ref to peoples.
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Anglo-Saxon was a term, in English coined later on and had a severe racist history. That one IS ahistorical. Anglisaxonum is not the same and has been translated as Angles and Saxons. Moreover it was a heavily political term coined when Wessex was scooping up other kingdoms.
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Apologies then, but translations are not void of problems, and can perpetuate racism themselves. Early modern people translated that phrase as Anglo-Saxon with the hyphen, rather than Anglesaxon, which is basically what the word actually translates as.
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