Posted on 07/03/2021 6:01:27 AM PDT by Twotone
Dame Athene Donald, the Master of Churchill College Cambridge, is probably breathing a little easier today. Last week, a commission she appointed in reaction to the George Floyd killing was disbanded, or disbanded itself, depending upon whom one believes. That commission had arranged a panel at Churchill College about the racism of Winston Churchill.
The panel featured several rants on this theme that are entirely typical of our day. The charges were virtually undisputed by any of the panelists. This caused a reaction from Churchill’s descendants and from some historians, notably Churchill biographer Andrew Roberts, who knows the real story.
Dame Athene has not said a lot about the actual charges. She treats them as an episode in diplomacy: this faction and that faction got their say (except only one did), and we will continue to make sure that the faction currently fashionable will get a little more than its say. This is the startling thing about the whole episode: it misses the point.
Pursuing truth… Churchill College is an academic institution. Should it not be concerned with the truth of the things that were said? Those things are disputed now by competent people. The way to get to the bottom of them would be to arrange a debate.
A good debate would focus on the actual evidence of what happened in the past. In the case of Churchill, the record is more than ample to demonstrate what he thought about race. I have asserted many times and without being contradicted that Winston Churchill never said or implied that the rights of any person were conditioned upon the color of his or her skin. He said the opposite beautifully and often.
(Excerpt) Read more at winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu ...
Next, should there not be commissions formed to investigate the hypocrisy of academia? Shouldn’t every academic institution form one of them?
Every institution should examine itself for bias & hypocrisy. Unfortunately, Lefties never think they need to examine themselves.
Everyone is racist except their racists like Margaret Sanger,FDR,Woodrow Wilson etc......
“A lady came up to me one day and said ‘Sir! You are drunk’, to which I replied ‘I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.”
― Winston Churchill
Churchill is one of my most admired heroes.
A lady said to Churchill, “If you were my husband I would poison you.”
To which Churchill replied, “Madam, were I your husband I would take it.”
From Arnn’s article:
“The world is tending to the condition described in George Orwell’s novel 1984. The past is changeable. The truth is what we say it is. The law of contradiction is repealed. Under the influence of these ideas, we trample the truth, and we tear down statues and remove dedicatory plaques almost without discrimination.”
To the rat party, Truth is that which advances their power. Factuality is irrelevant.
Time for attacks on leftist colleges by states and their citizens. Can include power outages, sewer backups, rodent infestations and drinking water that needs to be boiled.
Oh, the wit!
He must have talked to himself incessantly.
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