tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post6036954854461261509..comments2024-03-27T06:56:10.255+00:00Comments on Broad Oak Magazine: The National Trust Guide for rioters who like to torch buildings with styleUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-14488981141334140312020-09-25T09:39:12.815+01:002020-09-25T09:39:12.815+01:00As I say on a Conservative Woman post about this
(...As I say on a Conservative Woman post about this<br />(https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/national-trusts-oh-so-selective-history-of-slavery/#comment-5084473872):<br /><br />'My objections to this NT venture are twofold:<br /><br />1. It helps fuel a diffuse sense of grievance that forges 'mind-manacles' for the minorities that should be helped to escape. I remember (from c. 1977) the horror of a secondary age girl when, after she had finished - with pleasure on her face - rehearsing a familar peroration on slavery, I told her of the active involvement of West African chiefs in the business. You can get frozen into victimhood.<br /><br />2. It is a safe displacement activity for depressive liberals who want the guilt trip without having to do anything much (a bit like watching a three-hanky-box weepie at the cinema), and distracts from real issues that should be tackled today.<br /><br />One of the latter is the disgracefully low standard of service from the legal system to some poor defendants, as in the case (in the USA) of Albert and Ashley Debelbot, given life sentences for the death of their newborn baby after what seems negligent defence and a completely outrageous definition of reasonable doubt by the prosecuting attorney; and then a rotten first appeal hearing. It may not be entirely irrelevant that the defendants are 'persons of colour' and were tried in Georgia. I give details and links here: https://polynesiantimes.blo...<br /><br />Then there is the question of whether we are offering the right kind of education to everyone - should they all be made to have the same?; whether disadvantaged groups should have more access to capital to start businesses; and so on.'Sackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17284329249862764601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-88026697303221058692020-09-25T08:04:28.971+01:002020-09-25T08:04:28.971+01:00Let's tackle real present-day injustices. This...Let's tackle real present-day injustices. This is displacement activity.Sackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17284329249862764601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-11244945091145798232020-09-24T17:25:39.979+01:002020-09-24T17:25:39.979+01:00Ah the woke NT, this is part of their declaration....Ah the woke NT, this is part of their declaration.....<br /><br />'Some of this is difficult stuff,' Tarnya Cooper, who has been involved in linking the properties' pasts, told the Times. <br /><br />'Some of the objects are really distressing because they come from a time when slavery was very much a part of this country and we're such a different society now.'<br /><br />Difficult! only for you, this was indeed a long time ago, perhaps we should start removing Roman artifacts here for the same reason, Hello Bath............<br /><br />Is it a competition with these people to see who can come up with the most stupid suggestion.<br />wiggiatlargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01679399861131265080noreply@blogger.com