... you know ... if you really want to trigger some poor dumb snowflakes ...
Posted on 07/19/2018 12:30:32 AM PDT by blueplum
STUDENTS painted over Rudyard Kipling's poem 'If' claiming the Jungle Book author was racist.
They replaced the wall mural with Still I Rise by Maya Angelou saying Kipling stood for the "opposite of liberation, empowerment and human rights".
Sara Khan, Liberation and Access Officer at the University of Manchester Students Union, said on Facebook: "A failure to consult students during the process of adding art to the newly renovated SU building resulted in Rudyard Kipling's work being painted on the first floor last week.
"We, as an exec team, believe that Kipling stands for the opposite of liberation, empowerment, and human rights - the things that we, as an SU, stand for." She singled out Kipling's poem The White Man's Burden which she says "sought to legitimate the British Empire's presence in India and de-humanise people of colour."
Fatima Abid, the general secretary of Manchester's SU, posted on Twitter: "Today, as a team we removed an imperialist's work from the walls of our union...
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
In my entire life I had only met one actual human being who admired Maya Angelou’s work.
He just went off to journalism school...on his way to be a propagandist for the Deep State.
(stupid as a rock....)
Her real name was Marguerite Johnson, but that wasn’t PC enough.
Somebody remind me how long Marguerite Johnson was a stripper and prostitute. I can’t remember.
Remarkably stupid person. “White Mans Burden “ was written when the USA took over the Phillipenes. It is an anti colonial warning. “And when your goal is nearest, your hope for others sought,
Watch sloth and heathen folly bring all your works to nought.”
This is what ignorance gets you.
I would hazard a guess that 99.9% of humans alive in history were sexist, “homophobic”, and racist.
To judge anyone in the past by today’s standards only means we will be judged harshly by our future descendants.
And that's what I found also in The White Man's Burden - I just don't see the racism these gals claim to see, in a warning that if one was going to 'bring light' to civilizations already based on caste systems and slavery, one would be hated for bringing change, and judged, in part by skin color, in the process :
Take up the White Man's burden - And reap his old reward, The blame of those ye better, The hate of those ye guard - The cry of hosts ye humour (Ah slowly !) towards the light:- "Why brought ye us from bondage, "Our loved Egyptian night ?"
Take up the White Man's burden - Ye dare not stoop to less - Nor call too loud on Freedom To cloak your weariness; By all ye cry or whisper, By all ye leave or do, The silent sullen peoples Shall weigh your Gods and you.
I don’t see how that wise poem is imperialist or racist in and of itself. If all works of the past are to be censored based on some sins of the writer according to the contemporary “morals”, then there will be no culture left to speak of in the West. Das Untergang des Abendlands indeed.
Also, what gives these fascist students the right to say what is or isn’t on public display?
Beautifully recited by the great Charles Laughton in the movie St. Martin’s Lane (sometimes called The Streets of London).
... you know ... if you really want to trigger some poor dumb snowflakes ...
Thank you for that post. Well worth remembering today.
*If* you believe the UK conforms to how you thought of it
That perception is no more
England is turning into a Muslim outpost
Unlike the one 13 colonies in North America fought for freedom
At risk of “Godwin”
But for snappy uniforms
They are Hitler Youth
James Baldwin wrote some nasty racist passages which should be banned according to the lefts standards.
The only difference between these destroyers and their predecessors who destroyed the Buddha statues in Afghanistan is paint versus high explosives. Same mentality and largely the same results.
I never knew she had worked as a “sex worker.” Amazing how that aspect of her life gets glossed over with fulsome praise for other bits. Such as, for instance, teaching at a major university without benefit of a college degree of any sort.
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I dont understand why their train of thought hasnt overtook every nation in existence. They are SO right and are SO right about everything ALL the time.
That is the goal, isn’t it? Wipe out all history and literature and replace it with something vile and ugly in order to ensure that no one is aware of how our culture developed, how the past shaped the present, why we must constantly be vigilant and nurture the concept of freedom. People who do not understand how we got here or why protecting freedom is so important are ripe to be oppressed. Not only that, but they are less likely to rebel against their totalitarian dictators if they have no idea what they have lost.
If a picture paints a thousand words
Then why can’t I paint you?
The words will never show
The you I’ve come to know
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