Oblomov Boblomov wrote:The obstinate belligerence of it winds me up. You can (unfortunately) be a racist banana split who thinks slavery was great, whatever, but why do you then also need to pretend that it didn't play an enormous role in the development and prosperity of the UK? Do they think that if they admit it, they'll lose some imaginary points on their twat card, eventually leading to them having to admit that slavery and therefore the UK was bad, actually?
Wankers!
Bang on the money, You can't admit history historical elements were bad.
Because it's an entire separate front of the culture war. The suggestion of statues being removed, the renaming of streets/buildings honouring salve owners etc, the "wokification" of the National Trust by inlcuding history and context.
If you re-write history so that there are no issues then it's becomes "lefty wokiest social justice warriors" trying to re-write history and undermind the proud history of the Empire.