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 don’t think the two problems can be disentangled from each other and my only suggestion is that both need to be considered in tandem if this is going to have a fully positive outcome.
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Except that the idea of public engagement has been central to this from the start. Making the field more accessible is a primary goal.
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This isn’t just about changing the name. It is a first step in trying to change the elitist, racist, sexist, ableist, queerohobic nature of history and academia in general. I want to engage with the public too. My field stopped using “celts” decades ago. Hasn’t stopped pop hist.
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I also want all of that, very much. But I’d like to have more success with the pop use of the term on this occassion, if that’s possible. Celt can be used pretty awfully, but I feel is slightly less dangerous than Anglo-Saxon, especially in this historical moment we’re in.
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