I moved to Ireland from Canada to do my MPhil and PhD and have very much enjoyed the academic community, which has largely been welcoming. #MedievalTwitterhttps://twitter.com/ISASaxonists/status/1194506701220798464 …
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But for my MPhil, I was looking at how a particular symbol was examined in the past to today (the Lia Fáil). And I read shit from British Israelites, whose ideology was racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-Irish. They called themselves Anglo-Saxons.
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And they got permission from a landowner here to dig up Ráith na Senad on the Hill of Tara to find the Ark of the Covenant, which they believed buried there
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They believed it was their (Great Britain) manifest destiny to rule the world. This was at the end of the 19th into the early 20th c.
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They ruined a site of great heritage for their bullshit ideology. That is the kind of history “Anglo-Saxon” as a term has. It’s racist use isn’t recent.
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