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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Replying to @erik_kaars @medievalhistory
Re: the question of using the term, I would center the needs of scholars of color here. Would retaining the term make them feel welcomed in the field? Would it contribute to anti-racism? Would using it potentially still draw white supremacists to the field?
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Replying to @erik_kaars
I definitely don’t agree with most of the article for all the reasons you point out. I support name change and am training myself not to use it. I’m just worried about outreach beyond the scholarly community regarding changing this entrenched terminology.
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Replying to @medievalhistory @erik_kaars
But why? What could the name change do to affect outreach? I mean, there are plenty of terms we no longer use that are still used in pop history, but I can’t see Anglo-Saxon being one that is too entrenched with the study of the period, at least outside Britain.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @erik_kaars
I am worried about Britain, though! And it is more concerning to leave a term lying about that would be useful to fascists than something innocuous like feudalism
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Replying to @medievalhistory @erik_kaars
The term is already being used by fascists. It has been a word for white supremacy since the 19th c at least. The desperation from white scholars to hold onto this instead of acknowledging how it is harmful for BIPOC in the field in Britain and the rest of the world is a bad look
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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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Replying to @AdmiralHip @erik_kaars
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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Replying to @medievalhistory @erik_kaars
The term isn’t being misused. It’s a bad term to begin with. This has been established, over and over again, with sources. It’s been racist from the start.
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And this conversation seems to be centring a nebulous “the public” rather than the BIPOC scholars here, ignoring the fact that the public also includes BIPOC who are harmed through the continued use of the term. The public engagement stuff isn’t being ignored, it never was.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @erik_kaars
That’s excellent, I would like to know more about that public engagement if you’d be willing to share, be ngaged in that effort more. I find that everyone I talk to about this off twitter has no idea this is going on at all until I bring it up. That’s what concerns me
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