Ffs - you don’t take “problems with white supremacy seriously” by ceding a phrase used by our most heroic & admirable king to racists, & replacing it with a word profoundly inadequate to explicating the complexities of how an Anglian/Saxon polity emerged.https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/drop-the-term-anglo-saxon-as-it-is-bound-up-with-white-supremacy-say-academics-d66dlztfj …
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To reiterate: anyone not driven mad by spending too long in the hothouse of a US humanities department can recognise that when French economists, American Nazis & British archaeologists use the phrase ‘Anglo-Saxon’, they all mean different things by it. It’s really not difficult.
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The only way that will change is if academics persist in waving the white flag (sic), surrendering the use of the phrase, & allowing racists to take possession of it.
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Tom Holland Retweeted Charles West
Not least because ‘English’ is already the word that white racists in England tend to use to describe themselves, whereas for most people in this country ‘Anglo-Saxons’ = the losers who got shat on at the battle of Hastingshttps://twitter.com/pseudo_isidore/status/1192534835597852672?s=21 …
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Plus, of course, describing the early Anglian & Saxon kingdoms as ‘English’ would be as anachronistic & distorting as describing Clovis as ‘French’.
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Tom Holland Retweeted Danilo Giurdanella
Absolutely. The very contingency of the term ‘Anglo-Saxon’, the way it was constructed by Alfred to signify the emergent kingdom of what would become England, & to be back-projected onto an imagined past, is what makes it so useful.https://twitter.com/zaidasevilla/status/1192717074705125376?s=21 …
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Tom Holland Retweeted Dinah Rose
It’s basically a projection of an academic culture war in the US onto the very different circumstances prevailing in this country. One might almost call it colonialist.https://twitter.com/dinahroseqc/status/1192718403569668097?s=21 …
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He also posted a rather hilariously bad article several months back too I believe although I’ve scrubbed it from my memory. Oh and he supported that god awful transphobic letter from several months back.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @holland_tom
Look. I didn't know who this guy was until yesterday and thought it was the guy who played Spiderman.
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I feel like this is very apropospic.twitter.com/EEalLyzinh
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