The Year Zero witch hunts continue, now sucking into their vortex of dangerous nonsense even the most celebrated abolitionists should they catch even the slightest taint of association with slavery, merely due to living their lives in the pre-abolition era. Doug Stokes in the Telegraph writes on the absurdity of the inclusion of abolitionist David Livingstone on Glasgow’s list of ‘problematic’ personages.
How did David Livingstone, arguably one of Scotland’s most famous abolitionists, end up on Glasgow’s iconoclast topple list?
Glasgow City’s newly released report, Slavery and Atlantic Commerce, seeks to focus “on individuals (almost exclusively men)… whom were residents of Glasgow and its associated towns and rural hinterlands, and… involved with Atlantic slavery between c.1603 and 1838”. Just released, but commissioned after the rise of the BLM movement, it identifies Scotland’s list of sinners “memorialised in civic space” and linked to slavery, no matter how tenuously.
Dr Livingstone, the ‘rag to riches’ hero, made it his life’s mission to help end the horror of chattel slavery. However, as a 10-year-old boy, he worked in a cotton mill owned by Henry Monteith, one of Glasgow’s most important cotton manufacturers. The report notes that Livingstone was insufficiently critical of his employers. The wages he toiled for were “provided by Scottish cotton manufacturing which was itself dependent upon Atlantic slavery economies”. Moreover, the mill where the hands of the boy Livingstone spun cotton “paid relatively high wages to its workforce”. At 19, he had the audacity to be “promoted to a cotton-spinner which funded his education”.
Much is made of the seeming endless virtue signalling of our cultural and political institutions. Still, the more profound question is what purpose these constant bouts of self-flagellation serve where they even suck in moral giants such as Livingstone?
The new politics of race, slavery and decolonisation is part of a more profound collapse in the moral confidence of Western civilisation. Its story of moral certainty, sin, guilt and deconstructive redemption casts anyone who challenges them as beyond the pale. The new politics of race and ‘decolonisation’ are not about delivering social justice but are part of a broader status-orientated class war.
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An “unqualified male” helped an 11 year old girl buy a “penis packer” and noone seems to think that’s a possible (definitely) safeguarding issue? That’s possible gross misconduct.
Staff admitting insubordination (definitely gross misconduct).
Female staff not using sanitary products which could lead to possible transfer of bodily fluids, breach of health and safety (definitely gross misconduct).
It’s time to start sacking head teachers who can’t control their schools…
Hear, hear.
Schools are being infiltrated by pedophiles, basically.
Indeed, but this lot are even worse than the grubby scoutmasters and sweaty vicars of yore, because they actively and angrily believe in what they’re up to. They think it is not only right and proper but that objections are evil. The older cohort was perverted in its habits and was rightly punished when found out; but they retained a basic knowledge that their actions were about as wrong as an action can be. This lot are perverts to the very core of their conscientious being and hence much, much more dangerous. What did Solzhenitsyn say? For real evil, give people an ideology…
I don’t think there’s anything that better exemplifies how sick our society has become than the normalised abuse of children. Children are being sacrificed for political reasons and we’re standing by and letting it happen. And that includes me… and, most likely, you. Time we stopped pointing fingers and actually did something.
These people are truly sick in their heads.
Time to start a crowdfunder to pay for some lawyers to disable what some lawyers enabled.
Yes. But…
The only people who seem to benefit from this is the group collectively known as ‘lawyers’.
Students pick you up (staff/me) if accidentally misgendering another pupil. I try to use Christian names in place of pronouns as a strategy (which are often changed anyway to non male female, like George is either) I will therefore avoid they or them but it takes a real concentration and I can slip up and say she or he.
There have been lessons where what all the genders are taught, so students believe it.
The reason I try avoid they or them is because one day I think these youngsters will look back at schooling and will blame adults/education for embedding their confusion and would have preferred support to live and joyfully embraced the biological sex they were born as.
I carefully do not comply with preferred pronouns without being called out myself because I think it is in the interests of the students mental and health well being just my view. I think I am maybe a lone voice but is a taboo to discuss openly so not sure!?
but it can be noticed and one has to navigate it. FSU has guidelines about pronouns so when I was called in to explain myself this helped.
Students wellbeing is my goal.
My goodness, you must be exhausted at the end of a day.
How do you keep this up?
And should you?
Thank you for your reply
yes as you say exactly, but it has been meaningful for many years in other pro active professional aspects. Lots of good experiences!
It is a realty for perhaps a small minority of staff, still working in schools and who are coming towards another chapter which may be earlier than expected, as a result.
If Labour get in it will not be worth the risk to stay.
Let’s call a spade a spade: This is not teachers grilling pupils about gender, it’s people who’ve been hired as teachers due to a total failure of sensible HR procedures pressuring (prepupuescent) pupils to declare themselves to be somehow at odds with their sex.
“it’s people who’ve been hired as teachers due to the success of
a total failure of sensibleHR procedures that create an unstable environment, instil fear and uncertainty, and fragment the wider society”Slight rewording but I imagine these HR procedures are little different from those creeping into the private sector.
Taking over HR was obviously a necessary precursor to hiring people who run around with blood-soaked pants to force pre-teen children into conversations about menstruation in lieu of teachers, IOW, the people who took over HR succeeded (so far) in what they’re trying to accomplish. But that’s not what they were supposed to accomplish, namely, keep the sexual perverts out and not bring them in.
Quote from The Office (the American one): “HR is a breeding ground for monsters”.
For God’s Sake – Parents everywhere: Take you children out of school!
I agree!
My children are mid-twenties, so I don’t have to make decisions about schooling, but I would definitely look at free schools or else home schooling. Maybe parents can join up and share home schooling?
The Not-a-Conservative-Government could stop this tomorrow – if it wanted to.
It doesn’t.
Anyone who wears white linen with no sanitary products when they’re menstruating to stimulate discussion is mentally ill as well as unhygienic and shouldn’t be allowed to teach. I wonder what the rest of the staff make of it all – or are they in agreement with that approach?
I was actually wondering if this entity uses toilets at all or if she’d also prefer ‘discussions’ about other bodily execretions. I don’t think this should be called mentally ill, by the way, as this would make it less of a conscious choice, just uncivilized and quite thoroughly so. People who ‘disagree’ with basic hygieny, doubtlessly while also being favour of 24×7 masking of pupils for her own protection from dangerous germs, obviously shouldn’t let loose on school children.
Where are the parents groups on all of this? ——-But I notice that Disney and other producers of media are starting to change course on this wokery crap. The new Snow White film is apparently going to revert to using dwarfs instead of assorted other inclusive characters, and Unilever are going to stop with their social justice preaching. I had to ask my wife if she would stop using Dove because of that disgusting TV advert where they had black women dressed in business suits staring in utter contempt at the camera.
Thanks to the Politicians