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 ...
To be replaced with “infidel”?
I think Herman Melville described our predicament with “Moby Dick” we have become crazed into believing in universal values and trying to impose those one way or another on everyone, so much so that we become like Ahab or any other hapless missionary who in the end just get over run. So here we are, even the conservatives frozen into inaction once our former inferiors in rank over run us.
The term "academic" is also 'bound up with white supremacy,' as is the term "university."
But whitey, honky and gringo are still ok.
I am of Anglo-Saxon ancestry and proud of it................. Everybody is mixed these days no mater where you are. I was born in the USA, my father was from Germany, my mother from Italy. Maybe that explains why I start fights and give up easily?
The use of the term “academics” is an insult to humanity because they are not human
Why don’t we drop the word WHITE? From White Christmas to White sheets to white or your eyes, we all know that every reference to white is racist to its core.
The week before that it was "Outlaw drive-in windows to save the planet from climate change!"
This week it's "Don't say Anglo-Saxon!"
What'll they come up with next?
So what should we say? "Shakespeare wrote mostly in You-know-what"???
As Rush says: "We couldn't make this stuff up, folks!"
My wife is Cherokee and Sioux. Registered. She thinks it’s neat she came from indian tribes, but in no way does she considered herself something special. In fact, both sides of her family always wanted to hide the fact that they have indian blood, even as far back as her great grandfathers.
How about dropping African American. If anything, that’s more contrived.
Well put.
If Anglo-Saxon makes them uncomfortable, they REALLY won’t like Teutonic Celt.
Progtard DildoCrats need to go read Rudyard Kipling on the Anglo-Saxons.
And Hitler liked dogs. Let's get rid of our pets.
So what? We’re just all “English” now, like the Irish are “Irish?”
“The term “Anglo-Saxon” gained popularity in the 1700-1800s as a way of linking white people “to their supposed origins” “
By whom? When? Where? In what published material is such a rhetorical linking to be found?
They don’t cite any do they.
In my life-time what “Anglo-Saxon” has meant (even though that limitation of just the Angles and Saxons alone was in error) was the core United-Kingdom & U.S. share of “western civilization”. Though in reality, it was the Normans that put the icing on that cake in England, and as we know the Normans started out as Norse that lost to the Saxons, retreated to the north of France (Normandy) and later returned to take over “England”.
But, however the Norse/Normans are a part of the U.K. contribution to western civilization, it - that contribution to western civilization - was still often referred to as that of the Anglo-Saxons. It was not about “race”, but it was about culture. The culture from which most of the modern democratic sensibilities of government developed.
Yes, we can be proud of the “Anglo-Saxon” contribution to western civilization. Along with many things that came from it was the abolition of slavery, before most of the rest of the world.
Amen to that. If someone has ANY African ancestory that person is automatically labeled African-. It used to be that was a supposed derogatory label, but now it is used for a justified shirking of responsibility. We should all be proud to be Americans with ancestory taking a lesser place.
How ‘bout Teutonic, Frankish, and Celtic, then?
Nothing White supremacist about that, right?
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