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 ...
Anglo-Saxons are already not reproducing at a rate where their “superiority” is sustainable. Perhaps in a few generations they will all be gone and the rest of the non-WASP population will revert to the 18th century way of life.
Academics and ‘intelligent’ can no longer be used in the same sentence.
Academics and ‘ignorant’, ‘fool’, or ‘idiot’ is still a safe bet though.
My personal favorite is ‘dumbass’.
This is a gravely misleading statement, insofar as even Old English did not exist at the time of the migration from northwest India. It would be more-correct to say that Indo-European emanated from that region.
Regards,
Just what we need, more middle of the night while playing endless games of backgammon musings being taken seriously.
If you change history you erase the basis for today’s reality and any dictator can say “history begins with my total dominance today.”
All dictators had to erase history first. Then indoctrinate.
The great Library of Alexandria was literally destroyed and its treasures lost, as the new boss wanted only his own rule to be chronicled.
Islamists kidnapped a gentle biblical archaeology expert and tortured him to tell where the Judeo-Christian relics were located. Biblical Archeology Review (I subscribe) reported this. Muslims used air hammers, axes and dynamite charges to destroy all pre-Mohammed treasures, written tablets and statues.
Someday children will learn “Obama, our greatest president abolished slavery in his 2nd term. Our Muslim Nation today began in January, 2021 when the Democratic Socialists destroyed the legacy of the Trump White Supremacist Party.”
Only a few pictures of Trump will remain, to be used in propaganda.
So will liberals and leftists now stop using the racial slur “Anglo” for white people?
How could they possibly object to the term Anglo-Saxon?
The Angles, Saxons, and Jutes were the immigrant invaders of their time.
You know...I think I’ll now start using Anglo Saxon on forms where they ask for my race/ethnicity
Most experts on Indo-European origins seem to think that the area just north of the Black Sea is where the ancestral population lived. I don’t think anyone thinks the language family originated in India other than some scholars in India. Nowadays the majority of the people in the subcontinent speak one of the Indo-European languages but they were introduced by “Aryan” invaders.
Enjoy an Inuit Pie!
"Sioux" is also a term coined by enemies of the tribe.
Leftist a-holes, from a long line of leftist a-holes, all devotees of the Soviet system. Thanks Altura Ct..
With your bad self....
Say it loud...
I’m white and I’m proud....
It can also refer to Plato's school of philosophy...so it could be offensive to Peripatetics, Stoics, Epicureans, or Cynics.
I guess that Elizabeth Warren was right.
We are official PaleFaces.
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Medievalists of Color: Statement of Support for Dr. Mary Rambaran-Olm
At the recent Race before Race symposium in Washington, DC, Dr. Mary Rambaran-Olm ended her powerful talk on periodization and early English studies with a statement that she is resigning from her position on the board of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (ISAS). Medievalists of Color (MOC) wholeheartedly supports Dr. Rambaran-Olm’s courageous action.
Dr. Rambaran-Olm has worked tirelessly for years – as an independent scholar without institutional support of her own – to dismantle the deeply entrenched and pervasive white supremacy of early English studies in her field and from within ISAS. She performed this labor despite her vulnerability as a woman of color in an organization so dominated by whiteness that it has not yet ceased referring to itself by a name that attracts and empowers white supremacists. White supremacists have threatened Dr. Rambaran-Olm with bodily harm in response to her recent talk, and we must ask how ISAS’s attachment to whiteness fueled that threat.
Dr. Rambaran-Olm’s willingness to endure the heavy intellectual and emotional toll exacted by ISAS’s environment testifies to her longstanding and brave commitment to inclusivity and community in that organization. But ultimately, as Sara Ahmed teaches us, “We learn about the techniques of power from our efforts to transform institutional norms.” Dr. Rambaran-Olm’s resignation is a principled act that results from her informed judgment that meaningful change in the organization and the field will not be possible from within ISAS. We honor and trust her assessment of that situation.
We thank Dr. Rambaran-Olm for both her valuable contributions to early English scholarship and her heroic efforts to amplify marginalized voices in that field.
Members of Medievalists of Color
Steering Committee:
Jonathan Hsy, George Washington University
Cord Whitaker, Wellesley College
Dorothy Kim, Brandeis University
Seeta Chaganti, University of California, Davis
Adam Miyashiro, Stockton University
Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh, University of California, Berkeley
Sierra Lomuto, Macalester College
Barbara Bordalejo, University of Saskatchewan
Nahir I. Otaño Gracia, University of New Mexico
Michelle M. Sauer, University of North Dakota
Alexa Alice Joubin, George Washington University
Carissa M. Harris, Temple University
Eduardo Ramos, Penn State
Jonathan F. Correa-Reyes, The Pennsylvania State University
Kristina Richardson, Queens College, City University of New York
Wan-Chuan Kao, Washington and Lee University
Shela Raman McCabe, University of Notre Dame
Joshua S. Easterling, Murray State University
Elise Wang, Duke University
Leah Shopkow, Indiana University
Carla María Thomas, Florida Atlantic University
Mariah Min, University of Pennsylvania
Nicole Lopez-Jantzen, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York
Valerie M Wilhite
Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, punctum books
Eileen McKiernan González, Berea College
Uta A Ayala, Northwestern University
Shyama Rajendran, Krea University
Elizabeth Watkins, Loyola University New Orleans
Sherif Abdelkarim, Grinnell College
Chelsea Shields-Más, SUNY College at Old Westbury
Susan Nakley, St. Joseph’s College, NY
Geraldine Heng, University of Texas at Austin
Rebeca (B.) Orellana, University of Colorado-Boulder
Adam Benkato, University of California, Berkeley
Amrita Dhar, The Ohio State University
Co-signatories from Race before Race (RB4R)
Ayanna Thompson, Arizona State University
Kim F. Hall, Barnard College
Noémie Ndiaye, University of Chicago
Patricia Akhimie, Rutgers University-Newark
Urvashi Chakravarty, University of Toronto
Fine. Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and Frisians. Aka North Sea German Peoples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_Germanic
They’ve traded Jutes for Yutes.
Well, they complain so much if we use The Third Reich...
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