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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‘Anglo-Saxon’ I can drop easily, but using ‘England/English’ seems inevitable when those are essentially the geographical bounds of my research.
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Are those arguing ‘early English’ shouldn’t replace ‘Anglo-Saxon’ also arguing we shouldn’t use ‘English’ or ‘England’ in an early medieval context? If so, what should replace it?
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Replying to @FlorenceHRS
Some are arguing that it is misappropriated today by white nationalists, but you would find BIPOC people using the term 'English' if they are from England. Whereas Anglo-saxon has a false sense of heritage meaning white.
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Yeah i'm seeing a ton of that deflection. The only thing that gives me pause is that I've seen a few UK BIPOC saying they have a negative reaction to English, but I'm not in the milieu so I don't really know how to navigate the discourse
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Replying to @HalstedMedieval @ISASaxonists
I’d just really like to know if those people are asking for us to not use ‘English’, in which case let’s have a conversation and try to do better, or if they’re just arguing it shouldn’t replace ‘Anglo-Saxon’. The latter doesn’t make sense to me
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A few people to me said that AS should go, but that English should too. Not sure then what the alternative is though, or what the alternative is that they are using.
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