Posted on 04/29/2021 4:01:41 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The campaign for sanity and fair representation of views of different sides in opinion and news continues against cancel culture in the U.S. and UK. The UK had been the setting for a number of recent cases where individual public figures, including the former Conservative Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, were forced to cancel appearances because their views clashed with some students. Ironically, Miss Rudd had intended to deliver a speech encouraging young women to get involved in politics.
The campaigners might also be aware of activities by other cancel culture zealots. To characterize those activities as bizarre is to underrate their absurdity. It is bewildering that the British Library, the national library of the UK and one of the largest libraries in the world with over 210 million items, is planning to relabel Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales for “transparency,” due to the fact that the manuscript was once owned by a slave trader. Chaucer, the first person to be buried in the Poet’s Corner in Westminster Abbey, wrote the Tales, 1387-1400, long before the start of the Atlantic slave trade, but the manuscript was bought more than three hundred years later by Robert Harley, Chancellor of the Exchequer, who established the South Sea Company in 1711 which was responsible for the transport of 64,000 enslaved Africans between 1715 and 1731, and whose family was connected to plantations in Barbados, Antigua, and Surinam.
The link of the items in the British Library to slavery is supposedly part of its plan to tell a clearer picture of how the works were acquired. But it is also part of the library’s anti-racism action plan, to “decolonize” its collection, and to work for a cultural overhaul. Chaucer, who wrote in Middle English, can have the last word.
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Why don’t we treat REAL communists this way for the horrors that communism has always caused?
Excellent question.
And you can include Patrice Cullors in that group. She’s an avowed Marxist.
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