I do appreciate you care enough about me to sift through my various avatars across a number of forums over the years....with reference to Cornwall, being that my founding surname comes from there:
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But can't you live with historic art being put into context?Quality protest. 10/10.
Predominantly Black armed protesters march through Confederate memorial park in Georgia
A predominantly Black group of heavily armed protesters marched through Stone Mountain Park near Atlanta on Saturday, calling for removal of the giant Confederate rock carving at the site that civil rights activists consider a monument to racism.
Historic art that was completed in 1971? That’s just a losers’ participation trophy on a sacred KKK site.
what does this even mean? historic art. did you know the majority of these statues in america went up in the 60's and 70's?
It's certainly an antique.
Indulge me a little...I was on the Mall in Washington last November and looking at some of the statues that were vandalised and some that are targets to be pulled down. In the UK the intent is very much to pull down all statues of colonial era white men and women, also Indians, regardless of any good they did, including ending of slavery.
You do realise that those confederate generals were all officers in the US army before the Civil War I hope. Lee was even offered command of the Northern Army by Lincoln. He also trained many of the officers both under his command and those who opposed him
And you realise there were no statues memorialising Lee’s involvement in the Mexican-American War or Harper’s Ferry. Show me the statue of Lee in his American army uniform!
Who gives a shit?
Look, if you engage in this continual cancel culture you will have hardly anything left. Porsche gone, Mercedes gone BMW. NASA gone, countless pharmaceutical/drug companies gone.
From what I've seen its mainly white kids...Scoll back a few pages and look at some of those Tweets I linked to, and look at who is lecturing who...
I'm not referring specifcally to that, I'm refering to the movement in total. It is predominantly white people wrecking statues...
"Charmers" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence
It wasn't meant as a complement I assure you...
After that 4th of July weekend, one would hope the protesters would regroup, self-reflect and figure out that rampant iconoclasm is probably not the zeitgeist that is needed to resolve America's fetish with guns and violence. But as my American colleague said today, exactly what did Obama do for Chicago in his 8 years as President?
My point is, probably clumsily made, is that all this statue toppling is a sideshow. It won't really change anything.
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I remember the pink maps and Commonwealth Day in primary school. There were bound copies of ‘The Boys Own Paper’ which was probably the inspiration for ‘Ripping Yarns’. We read John Buchan’s ‘Prester John’ featuring a faraway place called Bulawayo and the Rider Haggard stories too.My point is, probably clumsily made, is that all this statue toppling is a sideshow. It won't really change anything.
There was a good article by the historian Richard Evans on this very subject in the New Statesman a few weeks back.
The history wars
When I was a child, in the early 1950s, much of the world map displayed on the classroom wall was still painted pink, depicting the “British empire, on which the sun never sets”. I learned to read from a primer called Little Black Sambo about a Tamil boy and his parents, Black Mumbo and Black...
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Matt Taibbi is a good writer and makes some cogent points.
It's more than ''easily'' gone too far it's Maoist cultural revolution. Interesting to see the Left priesthood class back-peddling and trying to reign in the attack dogs as Mao had to when they started targeting his own.
You realize half the people who signed the letter are right wing ghouls and war mongers who parade as democrats, right? Any time david frum and anne applebaum are together you know youre getting fleeced.
DESPERATELY. TRYING. TO. STAY. RELEVANT. BY. JUMPING. ON. THE. BANDWAGGON. DE. JOUR.BBC Music columnist makes a strong case for The Last Night of The Proms to go Woke....nah only kidding, ''They form a kind of unholy trinity: Jerusalem, Land of Hope and Glory and Rule, Britannia!'':
Calls for Rule, Britannia! to be banned from Last Night of the Proms
Music critic Richard Morrison said when at the Last Night of the Proms he often sees people in the posh seats who were not at any other nights, singing the 'jingoistic' songs without any irony.www.dailymail.co.uk
A staid looking musical hack unworthy of further description:
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I've never actually understood why "Jerusalem" is so popular at these jingoistic events - it's actually a condemnation of England in the 19th century and of the Industrial Revolution.
That's one interpretation.
Exactly, an idle hack jumping on the bandwagon in the hope by pointing at others, he won't be noticed or get a pass. He should be the first to give up his privilege to a worthy BAME or LGBTQ+ critic of some talent and distinction.
Blake's oeuvre is very complex and difficult to penetrate. Jerusalem is the preface to Milton, from his prophetic works, in which he was creating his own mythology. It's by no means certain he was referring to the Industrial Revolution. Some scholars believe he was referring to churches, others something more abstract. In Milton, Satan's mills are mentioned a number of times and not referring to industrialization.
It's going to be one dull and boring place when these cretins have created their Utopia.
Noam Chomsky is included in that?
