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It's not 'White lives matter' more 'historical facts matter' . It's permissible for drama to allow black actors to play white characters and for white actors to play black characters but history is history. Provided you don't misrepresent slavery by ignoring its evil it should not upset anyone if you describe historical events which did not have any black participants accurately. It is not necessary because of modern sensitivity to always include a black participant. There is something to be said for that.
I still don’t get Wills laughing face at the Meme (if that’s what it’s called).
Agree with your post btw. Personally I would like more history taught in the schools...both our history and world history. I know there’s not enough time to fit everything in but kids don’t seem to taught enough about British History, imho.
The cancel culture has finally provoked an articulated and organized push-back from actual liberals
Harper's Magazine
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A statement signed by 150 people incl. Bill T. Jones, Wynton Marsalis, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Noam Chomsky, J.K. Rowling, Margaret Atwood, and Salman Rushdie expresses concern over the illiberal trend intensified by our national reckoning.
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Harper's Magazine
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A statement signed by 150 people incl. Bill T. Jones, Wynton Marsalis, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Noam Chomsky, J.K. Rowling, Margaret Atwood, and Salman Rushdie expresses concern over the illiberal trend intensified by our national reckoning.
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gone way past stupid steelsy
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wannabee math person
I thought we had to go up because theres not enough space to go out
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Matt Walsh
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Here is my official statement. Please read it. I will not be making any further statements on this issue.
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Leonydus Johnson
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I also regret to inform you all that I played Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast. However, I am not an candlestick. Nor am I French. My heartfelt apologies to the French candlestick community. I will use this experience to listen, to learn, and to grow.
My children are getting taught British history in school, so are my friends children. It's a bullshit meme to imply an attack on 'Britishness' as otherwise why not just say history? By the sounds of it, like me, you love history and find it fascinating and see it's importance in the curriculum. I copied this from this bloke I used to work with's faceache, the same bloke has never, not once posted about education, history, the importance of history, he does however often post about immigrants and muslims. This is the target audience of the meme.
The thing is every country has a dark past in history and has done things which are abhorrent in today's society but were of their era. It's barely more than 200 years since people were hung, drawn and quartered in this country, barbaric punishments were regularly the big crowd entertainment of the masses not just here but across the world. In war or crusades battles were to the death and oppression and slavery were normality virtually everywhere.
The call to remove such detail from history because it offends is ridiculous as only by studying such events can people learn from them, having to apologise on behalf of those we never knew is crazy. It's a fact that more than half the world's population live under oppression or partial oppression but we are getting close to where a 'reverse repression' seems to be taking place where you are shot down just for expressing a different opinion. We can only improve as a society with reasoned and informed debate not a 'witch hunt' of those who may not agree with the mainstream...
Are now I get it......yeah agree there is a lot of crap going round like that (and has been for years)......usually from Britain First or some crap like that.
I agree with you, my kids are also taught both kinds of history.....both World and British.......and that’s what sometimes irks me a bit when I see the latest BLM person on TV saying that kids need to be taught black history....’cos they are already. My kids did a whole project on the slave trade and knew more about Mary Seacole than Florence Nightingale......
Just wish there was time in the school day for more history.
Im confused......has anyone called for any history taught in schools to be removed ? Genuinely haven’t heard of that.
Some universities have allowed students who find some subject matter in exams distressing to be excused and not marked down. There has been strong representation from the Students Union to remove certain detail from the core subject matter. It's the first steps to rewrite history as we knew it...
Presumably she wants holes in the ground, and we'll all live like hobbits for the sake of extreme feminism
How about trees? Do we need to chop them all down too for thrusting into the sky? May be this is why the Brazilian rainforest is being destroyed - nothing to do with agriculture....
I always thought that universities were there to promote learning....silly me
C'mon - who fits a c*ck with a zip??