“Hateful” Professor Who Insists St George’s Flag “Represents Racism, Not Patriotism” and Should be Changed

 So ... we are racist for wanting to fly our national flag. The one having a go is being equally racist by calling us racist, but that's okay? Can he not see the double standard here? He can be racist by calling us racist for flying our own flags, but we are racist by flying the flags?  ....

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Controversial black studies professor Kehinde Andrews, who has previously attacked Britain and the Royal Family, claimed England’s national flag was deep-rooted in racism amid a row over a “patriotic outpouring” around the country.

An online movement called ‘Operation Raise the Colours’ has led to communities across the country hanging up Union Jack and St George’s flags, including in Birmingham, London, Bradford, Newcastle and Norwich. …

Speaking on Good Morning Britain on Tuesday, Prof Andrews weighed into the nationwide debate, telling hosts Adil Ray and Kate Garraway that the history of the flag has always been problematic and “represents racism”.

Prof Andrews, Professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University, said: “It’s not that the far-Right has co-opted the flag. It’s that we don’t understand what this country is and the history of both of these symbols.

“Both of these flags are the flags that were flown on ships that enslaved my ancestors; those are the flags that the British Army marched into places like Pakistan, India, Bengal, Africa and colonised 25% of the world.

“The reason the far-Right picks up these flags and has consistently since the 60s, 70s, since my parents’ generation have been in the country is because these flags represent the racism that they are putting out into the world.

“This campaign of putting these flags up, this is not some benign ‘let’s just be patriotic’… go and search ‘Operation Raise the Colours’ and you will find the same far-Right, Little England, this nonsense-spewing about migrant hotels… this is what it’s about.”

He added: “People aren’t putting up these flags to celebrate Britain, they’re putting up this flag to remind us that Britain is white and we shouldn’t be here.”...<<<Read More>>>....

One of Britain’s Wokest Councils Has Banned Staff Referring to Parents as Mum and Dad

Merton Council in South London has warned its employees not to make assumptions about a child’s biological parents. Officials say “caregivers” is more appropriate. They have also advised employees not to use the adjectives “young” and “old”. The Sun has more.

Bosses claim not saying the words “mother” and “father” helps to “recognise diverse family formation”.

The council’s 27-page inclusive language guide — obtained by The Sun using Freedom of Information laws — also tells employees not to use “young”, “old” or “mature” for fear of being ageist.

It also advises workers to use “person-centred language” — and avoid gendered phrases such as “man the desk”.

The guidance, drawn up by the debt-stricken council’s equality and diversity team, also warns: “Avoid making assumptions about preferred names or nicknames without asking the individual first.”

Free Speech Union boss Lord Young said: “I’m amazed that Merton Council has time for this nonsense.

“I can only assume fly-tipping and potholes aren’t a problem in Merton.”

A council spokeswoman insisted: “We aim to communicate with understanding and without making assumptions.”...<<<Read More>>>...

Schoolchildren Taught Black People Built Stonehenge

 As part of decolonised history curricula, schoolchildren are now being taught that black people built Stonehenge and that the Roman Emperor Nero married a trans woman. The Mail has the story.

Pro-transgender teaching materials also claim that genital mutilation of slaves was a form of “gender transition”.

But landmark British victories such as those at Waterloo and Trafalgar go largely untaught – with research suggesting as few as one in ten schools include them on the curriculum.

A Policy Exchange investigation has warned that schools have “taken it too far” as they adapt history curriculums in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests.

The prestigious centre-Right unit found that George Floyd’s death in 2020 led to schools hastily including material about ethnic minorities to appear “anti-racist”.

Former history teacher and chairman of Campaign for Real Education Chris McGovern said it was ‘clear that the subject has been captured by the Left’.

The report added that some resources, such as the book Brilliant Black British History, push “contested narratives” – such as black people building Stonehenge.

The book is marketed as “a must-have in any school library” but its claim that early black Britons built the world-famous Neolithic stone circle is “hotly contested and outside mainstream historical thinking” yet “presented as fact”, according to the think-tank. …

One resource, from the Classical Association’s ‘Queering the Past’ project, claims the Roman Emperor Nero married a trans woman called Sporus but omits the fact that they probably underwent a forced castration rather than consensual gender reassignment. …

Separately, the think tank also gathered responses to Freedom of Information requests about the curriculum sent to 249 nationally-representative secondary schools.

The responses revealed the most popular curriculum topic taught to children aged 11 to 14 was the Transatlantic Slave Trade, taught in 99% of schools.

At the other end of the scale, the Battles of Waterloo and Trafalgar were taught in just 11% of schools, while for Agincourt it was 18%....<<<Read More>>>...

You'll Never Work in This Town Again!

 Did we just witness the suicide of Wokery? I think you saw what's called, in the argot of progressive thinking, the "queering" of the Olympics. That was some spectacle. First, Death on a Pale Horse came galloping down the Seine River so that no one would miss the point of the symbolism to follow: the beheaded Marie Antoinette portrayed singing in the window of a flaming palais (revolution anyone?). . . . Then, a tableau vivant of DaVinci's The Last Supper"queered" to-the-max with a tattooed land-whale in the Jesus seat offering a Satan hand-signal among the swaying drag queens, plus one child ostentatiously in the mix (say, whu?). . . followed by a blue Dionysius crooning about nudity ("Nu") on a giant fruit platter, with his ball-sack clearly on display among the cherries and nectarines. . . . It rained. . .tant pis. . . . The power went out and Paris ceased to be the City of Light. Finis. . . .

Not all of Western Civ was amused by these. . . antics. Many complained that the show portrayed Christianity in a less than favorable light. Ya think? The next day, the Paris-24 organizing committee offered the world an apology of sorts. Spokesperson Anne Descamps explained that the idea was "to celebrate community tolerance." Or, shall we say, to test it? Apparently, it flunked the test. Director of the extravaganza, Thomas Jolly, said (translation), "Our intention was never to be impertinent." Of course, he lies, and of course it is the foundational premise of those in the Satanic fold to lie about everything. (Just as America's Democratic Party lies about everything.) Within hours, sponsors revolted and pulled their support for the games altogether. Lord knows what the BRICs nations make of all this. Probably something like pity...<<<Read More>>>...

Imagine what would happen if everyone followed the advice of dim-witted Edred, the eco snooker saboteur, and stopped having babies

 What a miserable existence this would be if everyone took to heart Edred Whittingham’s idiotic theory that it’s immoral to have children, since we ‘can’t guarantee there will be a habitable planet for them to grow up in’.

For anyone who missed the story, Mr W is the dim-witted Just Stop Oil activist who disrupted the World Snooker Championship in Sheffield this week by spreading orange powder over one of the tables.

Just imagine the world we’d be condemned to if every couple of child-bearing age thought: ‘Oooh! We’d better listen to Edred! People don’t throw orange powder around at sporting events, after all, unless they’re profound moral philosophers!’

First there would be no more babies, of course, then no schoolchildren. As the decades passed, there would be no able-bodied workers to keep the wheels of industry turning, till the fields to feed us, pay our pensions, fix our heating, or nurse us in sickness and old age.

Finally, within just 100 years, only a few centenarians would be left — no doubt cold, hungry and destitute. Then there would be no one at all.

I suppose Mr Whittingham is right when he says we can’t guarantee the planet will remain habitable for future generations.

Which of us, after all, can see into the future with perfect clarity?

But what we can guarantee, with absolute certainty, is that if everyone stops having babies, there will be no future generations to inhabit the planet.

I therefore find it hard to disagree with the billionaire Elon Musk, slightly cracked though he sometimes appears, when he argues this week that population collapse, with the spread of contraception and abortion, represents a far greater danger to human existence than overpopulation or global warming.

In my view, the tragedy is that so many young people appear to have fallen for the line promoted by the likes of Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion.

 Indeed, a global survey of 10,000 people aged 15 to 25 found as many as 39 per cent say they hesitate to have children because they are frightened of climate change....<<<Read More>>>...

Here’s the real reason Roald Dahl’s books have been re-written

 So, here’s a “conspiracy theory” for you. This one is about the global-capitalist thought police and their ongoing efforts to purge society of “insensitivity.” Yes, that’s right, insensitivity. If there is anything the global-capitalist thought police can’t stand, it is insensitivity. You know, like making fun of ethnic or religious minorities, and the physically or cognitively challenged, and alternatively gendered persons, and hideously ugly persons, and monstrously fat persons, and midgets, and so on.

The global-capitalist thought police are terribly concerned about the feelings of such persons. And the feelings of other sensitive persons who are also concerned about the feelings of such persons. And everybody’s feelings, generally. So they’ ossibly irreparably offend such persons, and persons concerned about the feelings of such persons, and anyone who might feel offended by anything.

By now, I assume you have seen the news about the “sensitivity editing” of Roald Dahl, the author of books like James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Witches, The Twits, and numerous others. What happened was, Dahl’s publisher, Puffin Books, hired a little clutch of “sensitivity editors” to substantively rewrite his books, purging words like “fat” and “ugly,” and Dahl’s descriptions of characters as “bald” and “female,” and inserting their own ham-handed, “sensitised” language.

What you may not be aware of is that Puffin Books is a children’s imprint of Penguin Random House, a multi-national conglomerate publishing company and a subsidiary of Bertelsmann, a nominally German but in reality global media conglomerate. Penguin Random House is one of the so-called “big five publishers” that control approximately 80% of the retail book market. The other four are Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, Hachette, and Harper Collins.

Together, these five corporate behemoths, with their hundreds of divisions, publishing groups, and imprints (e.g., Puffin Books), control the majority of what everyone reads. Pull a few books off your bookshelves at random and look up the imprints to see how many are owned by one of the “big five” publishers or one of their divisions or publishing groups....<<<Read More>>>...

University named after cardinal John Henry Newman slaps a content warning on the BIBLE because of its ‘themes of sexual violence and abuse’

 [David Icke]: A university named in honour of one of England’s greatest religious thinkers has issued a content warning for the Bible.

Newman University, Birmingham, tells students studying the holy book that the module ‘includes themes of sexual violence and abuse – in images and biblical texts’.

Certain passages are flagged up as especially problematic, including a chapter of 2 Samuel in the Old Testament, about David, the King of Israel who had previously slain Goliath.

Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, the former Anglican Bishop of Rochester, said: ‘Works of history, literature, theology and the classics will sometimes include material about violence, including sexual violence.

‘University should be a time when students are exposed to different aspects of the human condition, albeit with the support of sympathetic teaching staff.

‘My issue with warnings is how far do you go before you end up with some form of censorship?’

Those studying the foundations of Christian theology are also warned about a ‘description of domestic abuse’ in St Augustine’s autobiographical Confessions , written in about 400 AD.

Former Tory MP Ann Widdecombe said: ‘I can remember when children, let alone undergraduates, felt able to read all parts of the Bible without fear of coming to any harm.’

Stop Apologising To The Woke – It Only Encourages Them

[Richie Allen]: Yesterday should have been the best day of Ollie Robinson’s life. He made his debut for England at Lords and took two wickets against New Zealand. Today he’s a racist misogynistic pig who, according to many, should be banned for life.

Someone went mining Ollie’s Twitter account and found a couple of allegedly offensive Tweets he had posted nine years ago. He was eighteen years-old at the time. The tweets are immature for sure.

'My new Muslim friend is the bomb' is certainly crass.
 

'Wonder if Asian people put smiley’s like this ¦)' is juvenile. He made some immature comments about sex too. So f**king what? Who cares?

After the Tweets were publicised yesterday, Robinson was forced to take the walk of shame and apologise in a hastily arranged press conference.

“I am embarrassed by the racist and sexist tweets that I posted over eight years ago, which have today become public,” he said. “I am sorry, and I have certainly learned my lesson today. I would like to unreservedly apologise to anyone I have offended, my team-mates and the game as a whole in what has been a day of action and awareness in combatting discrimination from our sport.”

I wish that Robinson had just rolled his eyes and said “F**k off!” We’d all be better off if the eternally offended were just told to f**k off once and for all.

Taking offence on behalf of somebody else has become a national obsession. It’s madness, but it’s also having a chilling effect on free speech and freedom of expression. Then again, that’s the point isn’t it?

Pretty soon, state and big tech censorship will be unnecessary. It will have been superseded by self-censorship. People will become terrified to say anything, lest someone else grab it and use it against them.

I say pretty soon, but evidence is emerging that this is already par for the course for millennials. God help them. They’re terrified of getting it wrong. Imagine dinner party conversations in ten years time. The lapses will be unbearable as guests frantically try to remember the socially accepted answer or position, before daring to speak.

We’ve all behaved badly at one time or another. We’ve all said things that we wish we hadn’t. To err is to be human. None of us are perfect. But our mistakes don’t define us. Nobody should have to fear that something they said 10 years ago or even last week, might cost them their job, or see them turned into a pariah.

Stop apologising to the woke. It only encourages them. Tell them to f**k off or ignore them.