The daftest lecture in wokery yet: Iconic Prime Minister William Gladstone loathed slavery. But because his father once owned them, Liverpool University has replaced his name on a building with a communist activist, writes PROFESSOR ROBERT TOMBS

UK Daily Mail ^ | May 4, 2021 | Robert Tombs

[C19fan]

George Orwell set out a nightmarish vision of Britain under totalitarian rule in his epic novel 1984, brilliantly explaining how ideologues weaponise history as propaganda.

‘Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every painting repainted, every statue and street building renamed,’ he wrote. ‘Nothing exists except an endless present in which the party is always right.’

Tragically, today’s social justice warriors seem bent on turning fiction into reality. In their war against Britain’s heritage and identity, they seek to re-fashion the past according to their own narrow values.

[C19fan]

Replace one of the great statesmen of the Victorian Era with a follower of a murderous ideology.

[C19fan]

Money quote: If Gladstone can be condemned for his father’s sins, why should Dorothy Kuya escape criticism for her long-standing commitment to the vile ideology of Communism, which was responsible for tens of millions of innocent deaths throughout the 20th century?

[SunkenCiv]

Better just burn down the university to make sure they've destroyed everything.

[RoosterRedux]

Wokeism isn't the goal.

Wokeism is the tool being used to destroy the system. It'll be kicked to the curb when it's no longer valuable.

Once the current system has been destroyed and replaced, boxcars headed for the gulag and gas chambers will be filled to the brim with diverse minorities.

[Redmen4ever]

Unforgiven: we all have it coming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAYVS8aRQ1U

[Leaning Right]

Gladstone is to be erased from history because of the sins of his father. So the fascist left is becoming even more fascist. They have now adopted the Nazi policy of Sippenhaft (“blood guilt”).

[MtnClimber]

Communism is slavery to the state. Why is that kind of slavery OK?

[sauropod]

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