Some sensible points relating to current debates on terminology in this thread here, fwiw :)https://twitter.com/DrLRoach/status/1184428446144978944 …
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Incidentally, for some further thoughts on the use of the term 'Anglo-Saxon' etc in light of recent arguments, and with which I find much to agree, see https://boaringmedievalist.com/2019/09/14/boaring-medievalist/ …
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen
This idea that we are surrendering a term as if it used to be neutral ignores what
@ISASaxonists and@erik_kaars have pointed out: it has always been racist including the UK.1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes -
I've definitely seen this being asserted, but I'm not sure I agree :) Albeit as a non-member, the society name-change makes a deal of sense to me, particularly given apparent US usage (& cf Levi above re: this), as do many of the other points made, but on this... Hmm.
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Please do not think I’m being rude, but the sources are there, this is well-documented.
@erik_kaars has pointed out several. I found also references by British Israelites referring to themselves as Anglo-Saxons destined to rule the world, in the late 19thc literature.2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes -
I don't think you are, no worries :) On the well-documented, I would simply note that the fact that the usage of AS as a modern ethnonym is a secondary, 19thC development in the post-medieval era doesn't seem to have featured in what I read of the debate on here. On the other >
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen @AdmiralHip and
> hand, no-one is doubting that such usage *did* emerge and has been used in deplorable contexts!
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What I’ve seen, and this was from several weeks ago, was people claiming that it’s racist usage was recent. However, “Anglo-Saxon studies” as a discipline were rooted in white supremacy and a linking between early medieval peoples and modern white manifest destiny.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @caitlinrgreen and
So there is an argument that we need to reclaim the word which is so harmful and emblematic is the field being hostile to BIPOC. Or that we need to keep using it because the other terms are just as bad, or that racism does not exist in the UK.
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So while the discussion of terminology is a useful one, and how to determine which is best and what the problems are, debates over how harmful AS is elides the problems of racism experienced in the past plus the vitriol experienced on here towards BIPOC and ECRs.
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