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Originally Posted by Dezzy
Most people were racist those days, it seems a bit strange to protest that now when the world back then was a different place.
The only thing stunts like this achieve is cheapening protests that can actually affect and improve racial issues that are rampant in today's society.
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I think apologist attitudes do nothing to make a case for excusing people in positions of power and influence. We had been through periods of great reform, as well as been aided during the great war by many nations with the promise of further autonomy, rights and respect...none of which were forthcoming after in fact the attitudinal shift became even more regressive with regard to supremacy.
We have the right to question our history, and how our supposedly 'civilised' establishment was constructed and governed. To simply sigh and say 'oh well, that's how it was' is a cop out .. it was then and it is today.
History is just the same, and so forever will be we are just as accepting of abuses in foreign lands today as we were then as long as they're dressed up as us pilgrims aiding the savages... nothing changes.
He was a supremacist.. He was not for rights or equality or anything remotely progressive in fact he was basically a eugenicist no wonder he is so popular recently.
'After the second world war, the Foreign Office forcibly repatriated 1,362 Chinese sailors who had settled in Liverpool after serving in the Merchant Navy. Government records don't mention their families but news reports indicate that at least 150 were married to British women and that between them they had up to 450 children.'
Why force feed kids that this was a 'great man' from another era, he wasn't he was one of the most powerful men in the world who had the chance to do the right thing and in the main he simply chose not to.. I see no reason to celebrate him or his beliefs.
History is not a stunt, those who have scratched beneath foundation GCSE history will be aware he was not how he is marketed in this 'cafe', kindly they choose to educate the clientele and for some reason they are happy to remain ignorant, which as we know is how the establishment prefer the great unwashed.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/...social-history