I research a period which crosses both 11thC conquests of England, so ‘English’ has always been a more useful term to me than ‘Anglo-Saxon’. I see discourse about how ‘English’ carries racist connotations, but I wonder how I could convey my research if I didn’t use this term?
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And tbh this only seemed to be an issue until the AS thing. Never saw anyone question the England part of Anglo-Saxon England, or early medieval England, or early English, until now.
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I do see the point about ‘Englishness’ and racism, I really do. And PoC are pointing this out. But if we have to use ‘English’ anyway, and nobody is arguing we shouldn’t, why not replace appropriate instances of ‘Anglo-Saxon’, a more directly racist term, with ‘early English’?
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Ah then I missed it, since it struck me that people telling me this were white Irish and English people. I’m paraphrasing some stuff
@ISASaxonists had mentioned a few weeks ago about this. But yeah, for all the people saying it, they offered few to no solutions. - Show replies
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