It is pretty telling to me who was liking Prof Green's tweets. A few of my white mutuals, and a few people whom I, Dr MRO, and others have tangled with as they have repeatedly gaslit and attacked folks for speaking out against racism in the academy.https://twitter.com/erik_kaars/status/1272886332122071057 …
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Oh and is currently objecting to a fellow medieval historian discussing Marc Bloch as if Halsall has some sort of special purview over talking about a foundational figure in our field.
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And instead of honouring Bloch today, he decides to just snipe at someone who is, on top of casting aspersions on a young Black woman in academia.
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Oh also, some other bad actors have apparently been calling Dr MRO an internet influencer as if her willingness to engage with the wider public again and again on racism and medieval history is more akin to insta stories and product sponsorship than scholarship.
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Now, nothing wrong with internet influencers, gotta get paid and all that, but when this is also coming from the man who had some general call to engage with people and then refuses to call out white supremacists who directly cite his blogs and articles? Well.
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You don’t get to say that we gotta teach people more about A*glo-S*xon and then when people do get mad that someone is doing that, when you are also not in fact doing anything to stop the misuse of the term.
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Yeah I have stories
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Doesn’t surprise me.
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