tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post166031760894475042..comments2024-03-29T09:09:46.823+02:00Comments on A Political Refugee From The Global Village : England is no longer a civilised place to liveUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-20335734612239336092021-07-25T10:46:05.146+03:002021-07-25T10:46:05.146+03:00It is true that the National Trust, and most other...It is true that the National Trust, and most other institutions, have been taken over by Frankfurt School Marxism. But they do not control all of England - as a general rule of thumb a place is free of "Wokeness" (Frankfurt School Marxism) if it is still owned by a private family, not a corporation or an institution.<br /><br />The language is, of course, inverted - "decolonise" means "colonise" (take over areas - in this case rural areas), and "people of colour do not feel safe" actually means "white people feel safe in this area - and we, the "Woke", do not wish them to be safe in this area or anywhere else". It is all very depressing for people, such as myself, who do NOT believe that skin tone should be morally important. If a large, and powerful, group of people insist that skin tone is of vital importance then it becomes important - although in-its-self it is of no moral importance at all.Paul Markshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18376632035812989444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-21276528281517970092020-09-28T20:20:35.006+03:002020-09-28T20:20:35.006+03:00I agree.I agree.Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-6783661029558558742020-09-27T15:40:48.570+03:002020-09-27T15:40:48.570+03:00Yes I very much agree - the Civil Rights movement ...<em>Yes I very much agree - the Civil Rights movement in the USA, which began with laudable goals, quickly morphed into something that has changed the world in very many bad ways</em><br /><br />And even at the time when the Civil Rights movement had worthwhile goals those goals were pretty much irrelevant to the rest of the world.dfordoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02306293859869179118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-25013404550327945842020-09-27T12:02:03.614+03:002020-09-27T12:02:03.614+03:00Yes I very much agree - the Civil Rights movement ...Yes I very much agree - the Civil Rights movement in the USA, which began with laudable goals, quickly morphed into something that has changed the world in very many bad ways. Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-39611309627097700842020-09-27T07:04:52.836+03:002020-09-27T07:04:52.836+03:00Slavery is part of our island story. The reason it...<em>Slavery is part of our island story. The reason it is suddenly newsworthy has nothing to do with history and everything to do with a cultural power grab by the left.</em><br /><br />I think it has at least as much to do with the Americanisation of Britain. The modern obsessions with race and slavery are entirely American obsessions which they're imposing on the rest of the globe (just as the LGBT agenda is an entirely American obsession which they're imposing on the rest of the world).<br /><br />The real problem is what the Left used to call (quite accurately) American cultural imperialism - the American attempt to impose its cultural values on everyone else.<br /><br />It's not really a leftist thing. The Trump Administration actively and aggressively promotes the LGBT agenda worldwide. <br /><br />It's an American thing.<br /><br /><em>National Trust properties that are very old may be linked to serfdom or even thrallage but no-one cares about these things.</em><br /><br />True. But nobody cares about serfdom because that's not an American obsession.dfordoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02306293859869179118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-68585441289240227272020-09-26T17:21:33.932+03:002020-09-26T17:21:33.932+03:00f you go back far enough you don't necessarily...f you go back far enough you don't necessarily find fiortunes based on crimes. Actually even the oldest families are not necessarily descended from the men in fur - the name Howard means hogherd so even the Fitzalan-Howard family themselves were once lowly. But why go back and then cast aspersions or as a friend of mine used to say nasturtiums? By all means uncover the truth but no use moralising or drawing contemporary political lessons from usually distorted history? And why copy a specifically American nervous breakdown? No black man came to our shores as slaves - they or their parents came willingly as economic migrants and usually profited thereby.Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-6973903356302665682020-09-26T15:00:03.327+03:002020-09-26T15:00:03.327+03:00I am fully in agreement with your last paragraph a...I am fully in agreement with your last paragraph above. <br />But as I am sure that you are fully aware ALL countries have a history of slavery including the African countries that willingly participated in the Atlantic slave trade by capturing and selling the slaves.<br />For example, between 1 million and 1.25 million Europeans were captured by North African pirates and sold as slaves between the 16th and 19th century:<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_slave_trade<br /><br />However, as you write, the Left/Progressives are not interested in the evils of slavery per se, they are only interested in British and American participation in the Atlantic slave trade in order to undermine long-held cultural values. <br />These hypocrites are absolutely silent about the modern slavery that is being practised in many countries today:<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_21st_century<br /><br />Yes, the UK like ALL other countries has a history of slavery but unlike the vast majority of countries its history also includes the abolition of slavery, the liberation of slaves and the active suppression of slave trading.David In Waleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12442479878591522298noreply@blogger.com