Scholarly discussion about the social implications and accuracy of our terminology is not 'bullying', and painting it as such is quashing not only intellectual progress but public understandings of history.
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Replying to @FlorenceHRS @DrJaninaRamirez and
With all due respect, I have seen bullying to folk who are scholarly and respectful. All for using the term Anglo-Saxon in an early medieval, material culture context. This is not ok.
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Replying to @Alison_Douglaz @DrJaninaRamirez and
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
As a scholar of material culture working on both sides of the Atlantic I fully concur that it is racist term in both the US and UK, the UK just seems to be more invested in not giving it up.
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Replying to @CKarkov @FlorenceHRS and
Many scholars would respectfully disagree that the term is outright racist. And to accuse those who use it in context is wholly unfair.
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Replying to @Alison_Douglaz
Alison - I've removed the others from this reply, only replying to you. With 1 exception, all the folk in this thread have pronouns in their bio. They thrive on seeking division and offence where there is none; they invent it in its absence. You're wasting your time pal.
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Replying to @ThereWasACoo
I never click on bios. I know that there are folk who seek to be divisive and the bullying is gradually being exposed within the academy. I think the pile-on tactics and taking down of scholars via faceless trolls on twitter is over. Folk are seeing right through it.
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My name is right in my handle there, none of us are faceless, and no one is trolling or bullying you. We’re scholars too, thanks.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @ThereWasACoo
I wasn't talking about YOU! I was referring to past experiences and your accusation I was talking down a PhD scholar. Which - you still haven't answered?
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