Posted on 02/19/2021 3:42:47 AM PST by MtnClimber
Today, we in the U.S. and the UK, are in the midst of self-proclaimed moralists who seek to erase the memories of those with whom they disagree, and to impose their view of the past and the present.
In a letter of December 21, 1817 John Keats wrote of “negative capability,” that is when a person is “capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.” In his terse remark, relevant to literature, Keats is implicitly rejecting the search for a single truth or solution. The remark is pertinent for challenging present day cancel culture and “wokery” that have been infiltrating their way in the U.S. and the UK with their double agenda: eschewing any uncertainties in their irrefutable mission of boycotting or censoring ideas and people they find offensive and erasing memories of past individuals whom they want to be condemned.
The need for challenge of this double agenda is clear, as two recent happenings in Britain show. One is a survey published in the School Library Journal of January 2021 reporting that British woke teachers have called for the cancellation of teaching of Shakespeare because he is a token of white supremacy, misogyny, and racism, in order to make way for “modern, diverse, inclusive voices.” A long farewell to all his greatness.
The second is the decision at Somerville College, Oxford, alma mater of Margaret Thatcher, that all students must complete an “unconscious bias” course to expose innate racism, homophobia, and disability discrimination. The principal of Somerville, Baroness Royal of Blaisdon, claimed there was “irrefutable evidence” that injustice in society was being fanned by unconscious biases we all have. During the test of the course, students have to admit they are susceptible to bias,
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Orwell had his math wrong by about 30 years.
This Orwellian nightmare started more than 30 years ago. It’s just gotten exponentially worse.
People need to start suing people. Big time. Tie up the corporations until they have to deal with it and realize blm is a painful impediment to their businesses.
The Communist Purge Is Growing Exponentially & Nothing Is Being Done About It!
Overcoming Cancel Culture
Think before talking or shut up
Get a job
Move out of the folks basement
Wash more often
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