Posted on 11/11/2019 4:29:59 AM PST by Altura Ct.
Academics have called for the term Anglo-Saxon to be dropped because it is “bound up with white supremacy” — an idea described as “mad as a bag of ferrets” by one historian.
The term traditionally refers to groups from across the North Sea, including Angles and Saxons, who settled in Britain after the end of Roman rule, and to their descendants and their culture until the Norman Conquest.
However, it has also been used by imperialists and white-supremacists to describe white people of British origin. Hitler wrote admiringly of “Anglo-Saxon determination” to hold India. Some academics believe that the term is not only tainted by these associations but is also historically inaccurate.
The term “Anglo-Saxon” gained popularity in the 1700-1800s as a way of linking white people “to their supposed origins”
Mary Rambaran-Olm, a specialist in early medieval England, wrote this week in History
(Excerpt) Read more at thetimes.co.uk ...
Erasing a people’s history is genocide, those people are evil.
You now know who the Left considers the Enemy to be.
Just call us racist honky crackers and call it a day.
They are indeed. My question is...will whites ever stand up for themselves? or are we going to let the Marxist/globalist/white haters push us off a cliff?
Then I guess terms like Inuit, Maori, Aborigine, Iroquois, Sioux, Cherokee, Polynesian, and others also reek of racism and white supremacy as well.
Thanks! I was wondering what we would be called.
Advocating dropping Anglo-Saxon is tied to academic leftist insanity.
I’m old enough to remember when the term “academic” meant there was a good chance that the owner had intelligence.
That which is supreme can not be removed by screwing with language
Helping those who hate this country take it over
I have a simple response to these “academics”: “Stick it up your a**”.
Adolf Hitler also loved his dog. So I suppose that means anyone who loves dogs is also a white supremacist. And he was a vegetarian! And I’ll bet that he drank milk as a child.
Anything Hitler did or liked must be outlawed, because doing it makes you like Hitler! Perfect example of leftist “logic.”
Mark
No need to fret. WASPs will reproduce themselves out of existence. But at least the current generation will have nice cars, boats, mansions, etc.
The LEFT loves to smear traditionalist terms like this for multiple reasons but the one to be scared of is allowing them to control its replacement language. Such replacement will never be bias neutral!
FYI: 'bound up' is the LEFT's pejorative equalizer for 'guilt by association' which allows them to tar any non-LEFTist who has a public idea that is accepted by a 'deemed' (subjective) far-rightist! Strange how the behavior that they decried decades ago as 'black-listing' and the like is now enthusiastically adopted by them!
your nick would qualify as well :)
And ...White Genocide continues apace.
When a blacks person claims to be from Africa, I love to trip them up and ask “What tribe?”
Re: White Supremacy
Those are curious and slightly comical ideas.
The English language clearly has it's origin in northwest India.
Also, the ancestors of northern Europeans migrated from central and southern Asia - with a little Neanderthal mixed in, too.
The largest group congregated first around the northern shore of the Black Sea, then moved west and north into Europe about 40,000 years ago.
Smaller groups of Asians took the northern route directly west into Russia and Scandinavia.
I am of Anglo-Saxon ancestry and proud of it.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.