my very first conversation with a fellow student when I had just arrived in Oxford for my MPhil: "They're eager to get foreign students like you, because of the money". #medievaltwitter
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(notable that this line also is based on erroneous assumptions about the people involved, but, like I said before: irrelevant, so I'm not going to serve that ultimately xenophobic narrative by going into details)
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finally, there's the issue of public engagement. and I first have to note that "the" public doesn't exist. in the current political climate, where "the" people are being weaponized by populists and despots, we should more carefully conceptualize our audiences.
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but does anyone really think we'd make this much of a fuss about a couple of whiny old white guys in academia doing racism if it wasn't for concern of the impact racist medievalism has on "the public"?
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I have to say, I read the blogpost in question a while ago, and while I get part of where it’s coming from and do see some of these misunderstandings in my own field of modern British history where many of the US-based people can’t spend years and years here, it left me so cold.
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The stuff about US people not caring about the public and having no connection to the public/to places with long histories is infuriating since so many of the people in question are POC, and for Black people at least, many of us can never have that kind of connection to place.
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