I'm catching up on the folk arguing for abandoning 'anglo-saxon', and some of the media response. It's interesting both as a sample of where public discourse about academia is at, and as a clean example of argument to abndn white supremacist dogwhistles Some links in a thread
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One thing I should have asked: are there lots of other terms that historians have made the case for abandoning on either political or clarity grounds? (I'm writing about why to abandon fascist nonense, and trying to pick up examples from other disciplines)
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Yes: Dark Ages, Celtic, Germanic (as ethnonyms), feudalism, Aryan, there are probably much more. You might still see them used, because people do still use them but generally scholarship has moved past these.
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