I’ve harped on this too much already, but Alice’s language is quintessential “new” racist language - co-opted buzzwords that are racist in context but existed outside the racist community as innocuous, often academic terminology. Linguistic “OK” hand symbols. Anglosphere is a textbook example.

You know the origin of the hand sign thing was literally a troll, right? The entire point was that some people will look so deeply into things and call anything or anyone they don't like or agree with racist/racism. https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/how-ok-symbol-became-popular-trolling-gesture

It's funny because I've long used that word (and Anglo-Saxon) as a snarl word to refer to the English-speaking world quite derisively. Her use of it definitely set off my "wait, haha, you're actually using that positively?" bullshit detectors.

Anglosphere started as an academic term to discuss countries primarily speaking or heavily influenced by the English speaking world. By 2015 it was an almost nationalistic category being used to describe an anti-continental European movement that (as an example) brought about Brexit.

As someone of Slavic descent in the United States, I can 100% confirm that the term “Anglosphere” is thrown around most heavily by neo-nazi types that don’t believe that non Anglo-Saxon people are white. I’ve seen it used heavily to discriminate against people of French descent in my area as well.

Glad you are still “harping” though, because i saw this and did not know the info before seeing it, so thank you for that.