Ugh this article is an astonishingly offensive take. Claiming that POC on social media are “rude,” and “attention-seeking,” that The alt-right trolls are the “monster they created,” and that ISXX board members are the real victims, etc. it’s tone-policing and victim blaming.
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I mean discussing public engagement is important but the solution shouldn’t be to worry over not being able to do so effectively because we are jettisoning a racist term.
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I’m not suggesting we don’t change the term. I’m worried about how we disentangle ourselves from it and defuse it, rather than leaving a bomb behind us for others to misuse.
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I worry that in fact very few people are looking at us at all. There are millions of people, even history buffs, who have no idea this debate is going on at all, learning about Anglo-Saxons in class and googling it on the internet. That’s what I’m suggesting we take thought for.
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Which is why the field needs to change. The problem you have seems to be more with our inability and/or unwillingness to engage with the public, but that is often a problem for older white scholars who hold up the idea of history being the field of elites.
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