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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Seems to me that the reflex against English/England when I’ve mentioned using it has been from white Irish ppl, who seem to have forgotten how Anglo-Saxon was definitely also used in an anti-Irish sense as well for a long time. Not like that should be what makes them care but
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In their efforts to centre themselves as being the recipients of English imperialism, they were deliberately ignoring how AS was also used against them, plus also ignoring that BIPOC use English and British (although one person wanted to argue otherwise it seemed).
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It's whataboutism. I don't disagree with examining terms that are coopted by ethnonationalists but this isn't the same thing. Find me a BIPOC who calls themselves "AngloSaxon" in all seriousness and we'll talk.
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