...outside of historical circles. Yet, historians are somehow able to conduct themselves as professional and adults, without pulling out their hair over the fact that somewhere out there, that word they use means something different. The fact that certain cry-bully medievalists..
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Replying to @DomFenucchae @stmarnock69 and
....cannot do the same with their terminology both baffles and amuses me.
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Replying to @DomFenucchae @ISASaxonists and
As for historians conducting themselves as “professional and adults”, the adherence to a term of art with a problematic history is not as telling as the consideration given to racist misappropriaters of the term, and their attacks on BIPOC scholars who would like the discipline
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Replying to @stmarnock69 @ISASaxonists and
The only reason that demands are being made to "reconsider its usage" is because of the “consideration given to racist misappropriaters of the term”. The whole [mistaken] idea of “retiring” the term is to attempt to sap the power of revisionist hacks; like Voldemort, if we...
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Replying to @DomFenucchae @stmarnock69 and
...don't say his name, then he’s not real. Allow me to point out the problems with this: 1.) This is a tacit admission that we have given permission to the revisionist hacks to have the final say to define what historical terms mean (ask yourself, if this were not so, why do WE..
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Replying to @DomFenucchae @stmarnock69 and
..say the term is “problematic”?). This is foolish. 2.) It wont even work as intended. The cessation of the usage of this term will not dissuade genuine believers of race mythology to abandon their screed. People are not radicalized by reading academic papers, as much as their..
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Replying to @DomFenucchae @stmarnock69 and
..authors want to believe they are that widely read. 3.) Voluntarily diminishing vocabulary is not an ideal to which academic should strive. It’s not a “term of art” like a “plier” in ballet. It’s a **Primary Source** and a term that contemporary people used to describe...
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Replying to @DomFenucchae @stmarnock69 and
..themselves. We shouldn’t retire primary sources anymore than we should burn books we don’t like. 4.) All you need to do is tell the truth, the WHOLE truth. That indeed, the term was appropriated by racist cooks, but that it has it’s origins in real, proper history. By...
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Replying to @DomFenucchae @stmarnock69 and
...“retiring” the term, we validate the malfeasance and obscure the true history of the term.
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This is what they say about Confederate Statues. No. Retire a term that was constructed by white supremacists.
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