WHAT ban on "Anglo-Saxon"? How would such a ban even be enforced? Books are being published NOW with this in the title. Some of us are reconsidering our use of the term. I hope more will. Criticism on Twitter, esp. of specific uses, ≠ban.
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& "shield wall" suggests that violence is being used against scholars and should be met with violence. I'm seeing violence, all right: I'm seeing medievalists of colors being threatened, told they're not real scholars or real medievalists, told to go study their own people. 3/4
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Please THINK about the terms you're using and how they impact colleagues, students, and all people of ALL races. THINK about how you're treating colleagues, students, people. Don't fight against an imaginary ban. Fight against the very real racism we see now.
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When did spiderman become such a dick
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Sorry, but I believe that giving in to these far-right groups is wrong. Let's make a stand. They have to stop appropriating any culture to suit their ideology. I am of Anglo-Saxon descent. I live in Kent, where it was actually Jutes who migrated into Britain. Maybe we should 1/2
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It's not that right-wingers suddenly seized the term; it was never innocent of racist connotations but came into vogue in English in 18th & 19th cents. See Dave Wilton, http://wordorigins.org/documents/Wilton_JEGP_AS_Paper_Pre-Publication_Draft.pdf …; & the section "Anglo-Saxon Freedoms" in Matthew X. Vernon, *The Black Middle Ages*
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