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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 06 2021
| PROFESSOR ROBERT TOMBS
Posted on 05/05/2021 12:41:44 AM PDT by knighthawk
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: liverpooluniversity; unitedkingdom; williamgladstone
To: knighthawk
Red Badger made that exact quote here on FR very recently:
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been
renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an
endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984
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posted on
05/05/2021 1:51:23 AM PDT
by
Texas Fossil
((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
To: knighthawk
1984 was meant to be a warning.
The SJW set took it up as a tutorial.
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posted on
05/05/2021 2:30:27 AM PDT
by
oldvirginian
(Shut up and sing, shut up and dribble, shut up and play, shut up and act...just SHUT UP)
To: knighthawk
Proof that academia is a LEFTist SJW cesspool on both sides of the pond ... oops I forgot about the
Australian School that forced 12yo boys to stand in an assembly and apologize for sex crimes committed by other males!
Thus, much of academia is deep in a LEFTist SJW cesspool!
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posted on
05/05/2021 3:18:46 AM PDT
by
SES1066
(I love my Country, but I fear too much Government!)
To: knighthawk
Just the start Churchill, Disraeli, Chatham, Pitt, Wellington,Nelson, Beatty, Roberts, Kipling are going to be purged
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posted on
05/05/2021 3:40:50 AM PDT
by
robowombat
(Orthodox )
To: Texas Fossil
That quote is being posted daily on FR.
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posted on
05/05/2021 5:36:40 AM PDT
by
Sans-Culotte
(11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
To: Sans-Culotte
It is a very timely quote.
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posted on
05/05/2021 9:30:04 AM PDT
by
Texas Fossil
((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
To: Texas Fossil
Yep, it’s an Orwellian world we live in.
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posted on
05/05/2021 9:55:45 AM PDT
by
Sans-Culotte
(11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
To: Sans-Culotte
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posted on
05/05/2021 11:13:01 AM PDT
by
Texas Fossil
((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
To: knighthawk
Wonderful essay.
Those dumb woke Liverpudlians.
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posted on
05/05/2021 12:30:24 PM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
("One steps out with actresses, one doesn't marry them."—Philip, Duke of Edinburgh)
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