Hey y'all, remember this guy? Well, apparently today he gave a speech to the Sachsensymposium referring to antiracist critiques of the label "Anglo-Saxon" as "intellectual warfare by totalitarian iconoclasts" and "a political rally of Pyongyang." 1/https://twitter.com/HalstedMedieval/status/1287485685033766920 …
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Those are verbatim quotes. Let's start with the blatantly racist invocation of North Korea. We've seen a lot of this -- PoC and their allies are compared to Maoists especially, a "yellow peril" argument that positions them as existential dangers to the field. 2/
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Totalitarianism is a common canard as well -- see all the bad faith arguments about "banning" words, as if anyone has the ability to do that. For academics these guys sure have a poor understanding of how power dynamics work. 3/
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Notwithstanding all that, a (white) senior scholar insulting those trying to make change in the field to a closed group of (white) senior scholars is exactly the problem. We're trying for an open, more inclusive medieval studies. Instead we get... this. 4/
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If we head down this path, medieval studies is doomed either to irrelevance or, far worse, outright and continued white supremacy. 5/
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I won't go into some of the other fallacies that showed up in the speech (a desperate lob against critical race theory, another incorrect statement that this is a problem of American racial politics) because I wasn't there and don't have exact quotes. 6/
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I see someone is trying their hand at following all the Trump rhetoric points.
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