But what you don't know is that that term is not just the dominant vernacular term, it doesn't originate in Britain. It was not the most-used term in England. It's actually a minor royal title.
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And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that in the 1800s, Edward Freeman did a series of claims popularizing the term as a modern description, rather a historical one.pic.twitter.com/ic2PHXhS6h
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And then it was the racial Anglo-Saxonists, wasn't it, who used the term to justify colonization in India and the Americas? (I think we need a screenshot here.)pic.twitter.com/4kaBHVwM7Z
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And then "Anglo-Saxon" quickly showed up in the scholarship of dozens of different medievalists. And then it filtered on down through the ideology and then trickled on down into some tragic sense of "English" history where you, no doubt, fished it out of some textbook.pic.twitter.com/DEc63PvtNg
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However, that term represents decades of work and countless books, and it's sort of comical how you think that you've made a choice that exempts you from racial ideology when, in fact, you're using a term that was selected for you by Victorian imperialists...from a pile of stuff.pic.twitter.com/GEvjeAGeZw
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