White scholars who keep perpetuating this idea that we want to “ban” Anglo-Saxon are a) perpetuating far right rhetoric, b) ignoring that the academic community is international, c) paying lip service to the idea that racism is bad but not standing up against it #medievaltwitter
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d) ignoring that EUROPEAN white supremacists are targeting BIPOC scholars and their allies, e) that it’s not that accurate of a term, f) not acknowledging that senior scholars have attacked and gaslight BIPOC scholars and allies over this
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If you actually care about white supremacist appropriation? How about you spend your time telling the racists at Brexit rallies and the English white supremacists that Anglo-Saxon isn’t a European word or something
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Even better, stop this pearl clutching over changing terminology and stand up for your colleagues.
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And if you think you are above it all? There are a number of scholars on here whose work is being defended by said white supremacists to hold up their rhetoric. Scholars who I think otherwise would say they aren’t racist.
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You want to be anti-racist? Listen to BIPOC, cute BIPOC, consider and question your own privilege, do the reading. Check out
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