Very relevant to the current discussion in early medieval studies with some people attempting to argue that racism is an ‘American problem’ - racism has always been here in the uk and we have to fight it here #MedievalTwitterhttps://twitter.com/BenHCarrington/status/1184127074857971712 …
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I have been confused by that construction. I thought the point was that racism manifests differently in different places and that the semantic range of words varies?
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Replying to @erin_sebo @krmaude
Well, one would think that. But there have been various UK academics claiming that racism & racist associations with the term “Anglo-Saxon” are American problems, not wider problems.
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I think that's a bit of a straw man in most - though not all - contexts here. Rather, people like I and
@DJMHarland have been at pains to point out that terms like 'English', which may seem quite neutral in the US, are anything but so here.2 replies 2 retweets 30 likes -
In contrast, Anglo-Saxon *can* hold racist connotations in the UK, but is much less likely to do so. So racism is a persistent problem across the board, but it's lexicon varies. (One of our nastiest right-wing groups are the 'English Defence League'.)
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Okay but it still does. There was a racist tweet circulating around yesterday, people at Brexit rallies calling themselves Anglo-Saxon. English and British hold certain terrible connotations also esp with regards to imperialism and nationalism but the terms themselves are not 1/
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Rooted in white supremacist literature. Evidently better terms need to be found, but right now early medieval England or Early English is a better option. The North Atlantic seems far too broad. 2/
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