Were these people (specifically the one who said English was racist) going to Old English scholars and telling them to change the name of the language?
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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