#medievaltwitter, I just received a message from one of our outreach partners. they work in special needs education
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now I know this is going to dismissed, once again, as anecdote by bloggers like Guy Halsall and Howard Williams, but what they wrote me reminded me that it's not just the far right who are looking at what we're doing.
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they wrote: "Just wanted to say - thank you for doing what you're doing re racism/Anglo Saxon. Obviously, I'm completely on the periphery, but I'm still really shocked by people's attitudes. +
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And obviously in our outreach, many of our students are POC, and so feeling safe and welcomed from their perspective is really important as well."
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I would like you, Guy Halssall, Howard Williams, Charles West, to ponder those words, next time you claim this is merely a "marginal" issue here in the UK. I would like you to think of whom you're marginalizing by making *that* your hill.
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tl;dr: if you want to be a public historian, stop being actively exclusionary.
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#MedievalTwitter their idea of "public historian" is basically I want a white audience. You can see what that means. This also seems to be why they don't care of they talk to fascists and/or allow fascists to use their material for their propaganda.
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