OK, why don't you just assume a charitable reading of a persons' work? Earlier, we had Walter Bodmer's DNA results for Britain. It is patently obvious that he is not a racist & that his work undermines racism. & he uses the term 'A-S'. We know that US humanities depts are...
So basically you can’t actually offer any evidence. Hey, I’m a medieval historian telling you right now that Anglo-Saxon is not a useful term for the medieval period as an ethnonym and it’s use as a racist one is recent, given the US and UK white suprematists defending it.
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White supremacists are literally targeting scholars for wanting to move away from an inaccurate term, and the historians who want to hold onto it do nothing to counter them or call them out. But you don’t want to be convinced, when the facts are there.
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