As I've noted before, STJ is a genuine white supremacist who has put out attack videos on scholars who argue that the term "Anglo-Saxon" shouldn't be the primary one scholars use. 2/5https://twitter.com/erik_kaars/status/1189149930419642368 …
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STJ trained with the now-proscribed white supremacist terrorist org National Action: https://www.hopenothate.org.uk/inside-generation-identity-uk/ … The question scholars supporting the term should ask themselves is why white supremacists see statements like this as a positive development. 3/5
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The FMASS signatories claim that abandoning the term will leave it in the hands of "political extremism" but white supremacists clearly see nothing in their letter that challenges their extremism, and--instead--see the letter as "defending" the term "from attacks." 4/5
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STJ released a video asking scholars "make a public stand against" those who want the term to be retired. We need to seriously ask ourselves as scholars what it means that these people have been calling for scholars to release EXACTLY this sort of statement. 5/5
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And his supporters are in the mentions of popular writers like Tom Holland, happy to see him defending the term:https://twitter.com/SLevelt/status/1201532288791650304 …
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An expert in the field backed up by multiple other experts in the field of Early English studies backed up by many others in the same and similar areas. Seems like they are the best judges of what terms they use in their academic field.
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I'll continue to use the term thanks
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