I am actually finding the railing against replacing Anglo-Saxon with English even more bananas the more I think about it.
I think the North Atlantic one is a good way to encompass all these islands but if we are looking at communities speaking the language known as English then idk how to encompass that in a way completely devoid of problems.
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That is the question I suppose. But attacking me and then MOC for the idea and making shit up (that English is ahistorical) and then running off to Facebook to complain isn’t a good look.
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I always use the example that we stopped using “Celtic” to describe the peoples living in Ireland in the medieval period. And the world didn’t end.
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Our language (English) evolves regularly. The whole field is about the evolving way we study the past. If we stopped innovating then we’d just be repeating ourselves.
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But this is not even about the name change but the entire backwards attitude of scholars to move forward in the field and accommodate for BIPOC and other marginalized groups.
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And the constant whataboutism and centring of white feelings.
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