Some medievalists mad about the current debates around the term A-S just love to screenshot twitter and complain about people in Facebook groups. I don't understand it. There are buttons to reply on here. Do they have accounts? We can talk if y'all want.
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The disturbing trend is that they keep adding new scholars to poke fun at. I won't even say who. I find what they say about my colleagues and friends hurtful. "How could ____________ who works at ____________ make this argument?" "Isn't __________ a historian?" Just stop.
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I teach a lot of English Composition. This is a complete breakdown of discourse. Common ground and identification are impossible when one party approaches communication in this way. I tell my students to not even consider bad faith actors like this in their work.
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These are active scholars. They host panels, publish, and teach classes. Some might sit on hiring committees and award fellowships. That is troubling.
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If a colleague is convinced they need to use A-S in their work, fine. That is academic freedom. It's their scholarship and their classroom. Much of the field is moving on and many might tell you why.
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Characterizing work to move on from A-S as a lexical police state is not helpful. Abusing colleagues over it is especially unhelpful and unwelcome. It should stop.
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you will enjoy this. Academic freedom is about research-based, evidential analysis in relation to quality. At the moment the A-S is not winning w/ the evidence. But hey, that's not as important as white supremacy, nostalgia, nationalism, etc.
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Exactly. No one is policing their classroom but when the journals, conferences, presses, and curriculum committees have all moved on from A-S for responsible reasons grounded in scholarship, what is left?
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