With all due respect, no matter how 'respectful' a scholar's tone is, deciding to use a racist term after being informed of its inherent racism is not, in fact, respectful.
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Replying to @FlorenceHRS @DrJaninaRamirez and
Aha, but thisis where we disagree - respectfully. I am a scholar of material culture and I use this term because, in my view it is the only reasonable term for that period.
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Replying to @Alison_Douglaz @DrJaninaRamirez and
Then yes, we do disagree. Opting to uncritically use a term that not only has racist origins and racist applications but is also inaccurate and largely anachronistic is not only harmful but is, in my opinion, bad scholarship.
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Replying to @FlorenceHRS @DrJaninaRamirez and
But *I DO* think of it critically. Racist implications from the term Anglo-Saxon comes from American terminology. Not from the UK. Hence why it is deeply embedded in scholarship.
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Replying to @Alison_Douglaz @FlorenceHRS and
The problem is that it's not "racist implications." It's a racist term, all the way down. It was invented to create an imagined nationalist past and it continues to do that
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Replying to @HalstedMedieval @FlorenceHRS and
I haven't interpreted that way at all! Not from my reading.
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Replying to @Alison_Douglaz @FlorenceHRS and
Then maybe you should do more reading? It's well-established. Here's something to starthttps://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/misnaming-the-medieval-rejecting-anglo-saxon-studies/ …
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Replying to @HalstedMedieval @FlorenceHRS and
Ok. Mr faceless on twitter. Thankyou for this but I am a well established scholar who is capable of respectfully disagreeing with you.
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Replying to @Alison_Douglaz @FlorenceHRS and
I'm happy for you, but I'd be happier if you did some reading.
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Replying to @HalstedMedieval @Alison_Douglaz and
Me Faceless? Chris is hardly faceless and that is an inappropriate way to talk to a PhD student.
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This sort of stubbornness to just learning about new perspectives and engaging is the exact thing I was talking about. We’ve been providing resources and discussing this in good faith but that clearly isn’t reciprocated.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @HalstedMedieval and
Reciprocity is in the tweets. We are having some discussion.
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