They are very much a "fringe". We have genuine crime stats to prove that. If you don't think that the power and social purchase of white supremacists has diminished since [insert a year..1900?] I don' know what to say to you. It's not a matter of my "privilege", but an objective
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Replying to @DomFenucchae @ShrillHarpy and
...reading of reality. You can do this too. Even still, I didn't say that race based vitriol "wasn't important" or "not threatening", it's just that it's inane to imagine that such people have any kind of influence it the scholarly circles you are navigating, or that using...
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Replying to @DomFenucchae @ShrillHarpy and
...these so-called "controversial" terms somehow "empower" them. I mean, what are you seriously afraid is going to happen? In all earnesty, what outcomes do you imagine will result from scholars using these [technically correct] terms in the proper context? These are questions...
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Replying to @DomFenucchae @ShrillHarpy and
....you have to answer if you presume to tell people what they can and can't say. I put it to you that YOU [inadvertently] empower these weirdos by granting them the final say to decide, once and for all, how these terms will be defined. Why invite them into the academy like...
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Replying to @DomFenucchae @ShrillHarpy and
...this? Why dignify their bigotry by having important academic fields organize their terminology/nomenclature around their screed? And in doing so, we declare that a bit or history is now unwritten, unimportant and untouchable. And the rational? "Well its not very important..
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Replying to @DomFenucchae @ShrillHarpy and
..anyways". This is not worthy of "intellectuals". It's a crime against the intellect.
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Replying to @DomFenucchae @ShrillHarpy and
I’d invite you to read my mentions or those of anyone who’s advocated for a shift (especially scholars of color) in terminology when you say it’s a “fringe movement.” It’s a sea of white nationalism and white people claiming we’re trying to erase their heritage.
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Replying to @erik_kaars @DomFenucchae and
If you want historical accuracy, we would barely use the term anyway. It’s a latin term that was used either by authors outside of England or by a small set of kings. We’re now using the term to refer to a bunch of situations where our sources don’t use it.
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Are they serious? And lo the term was scrubbed from the language, the latest casualty of the culture war of 2019.pic.twitter.com/AZLYQRwI2N
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Lol, they were dead serious and went on to talk about being an indigenous Brit with four degrees in Anglo-Saxon!
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Four Anglo-Saxon degrees? We can thank Alfred the Great for those education reforms.
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I, for one, was so impressed!
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