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Post by fretslider on Nov 24, 2020 5:50:50 GMT -5
They're pushing the white guilt barrier further back all the time. Now we've reached 1592 - that's 428 years ago...Hughes had a distant ancestor who was involved in colonialism in the 17th century. So what? The British Library has added the late poet laureate Ted Hughes to its dossier on links to slavery and empire. The connection could not be more tenuous: it all centres around an ancestor, born over 300 years before Hughes, who was involved in colonialism in North America through the London Virginia Company. The British Library has been compiling information about the items it possesses, identifying links between their previous owners and the imperial past. It has previously shown its wish to be an ‘actively anti-racist organisation’ – earlier this year, it encouraged its white employees to educate themselves about privilege and to donate to Black Lives Matter. Now, it has added Hughes to its naughty list. This is despite his humble origins – Hughes went to university on a scholarship, and his father was a tobacconist. It is hard to see how he benefited from the spoils of empire. To put a black mark against a 20th-century figure because of the actions of someone born in 1592 is absurd. But the woke approach to history treats slavery and colonialism as a kind of ‘original sin’, whereby all white people are somehow guilty for what white people did centuries ago. It is ahistorical and toxic. The British Library, as a publicly funded institution dedicated to learning and history, ought to know better than to indulge in this increasingly ridiculous woke crusade. www.spiked-online.com/2020/11/23/why-has-the-british-library-blacklisted-ted-hughes/How mad is that.
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Post by toby1 on Nov 24, 2020 9:09:02 GMT -5
I suspect that The British Library took on some hard left staff who were left to their own devices so started investigating slavery links. Who knows what they have been up to but I bet they Never mention the part Jewish Bankers had in putting up the money for the slaving expeditions and I bet they Never, Ever mention about the One and a Half Million White Skinned folk who were snatched from coastal towns and villages in England and Ireland by so-called Barbary Pirates during the middle ages and taken to be sold as slaves around North Africa !
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Post by fretslider on Nov 26, 2020 5:48:21 GMT -5
I suspect that The British Library took on some hard left staff who were left to their own devices so started investigating slavery links. Who knows what they have been up to but I bet they Never mention the part Jewish Bankers had in putting up the money for the slaving expeditions and I bet they Never, Ever mention about the One and a Half Million White Skinned folk who were snatched from coastal towns and villages in England and Ireland by so-called Barbary Pirates during the middle ages and taken to be sold as slaves around North Africa ! All institutions go by the new rules - Critical race theory, the trans agenda etc They have no idea about the Corsairs raiding southern England and taking white slaves to North Africa They have no idea about the Ashanti Empire (Ghana) and it's bustling trade in selling their African brothers and sisters to white Europeans. They have no idea about how the British went to war against the Ashanti to stop the trade. In short, they really have no idea.
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