We hear a lot about ‘decolonisation’ these days, even though practically all countries that were colonised by the European powers gained their independence decades ago. In contemporary parlance, ‘decolonisation’ means adding non-white authors to university reading lists and ensuring that ‘indigenous ways of knowing’ are reflected in the curriculum.
What’s more, there’s a whole academic field called ‘post-colonial studies’, which seeks to critically analyse Western colonialism. And while there’s nothing wrong with this in principle (we should analyse Western colonialism from a critical standpoint), many post-colonial scholars are less impartial critics than anti-Western activists.
They refuse to accept there was anything positive about Western colonialism. And when dissidents like Bruce Gilley or Nigel Biggar point out that there were positive aspects, those dissidents find themselves on the receiving end of censorious petitions signed by hundreds of their colleagues.
Such activism stifles intellectual debate and gives the false impression that Western colonialism was “a litany of racism, exploitation and massively murderous violence” – to quote Biggar.
One indication that the legacy of colonialism is far more mixed than most post-colonial scholars will admit comes from a recent study published in the British Journal of Political Science.
Andy Baker and David Cupery combined data from several cross-national surveys in which respondents in different countries were asked for their opinion about certain named foreign countries. The exact question varied from survey to survey. In one case, respondents were asked for their opinion “with zero expressing a very unfavorable opinion” and “100 expressing a very favorable opinion”. In another case, they were asked if they have a “have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable or very unfavorable opinion”. Baker and Cuprey combined the various surveys using a technique called factor analysis.
They were then able to calculate, for each country in their dataset that was a former colony, the average favourability toward that country’s coloniser minus the average favourability toward all other countries respondents were asked about. They call this quantity the ‘former-coloniser gap’.
Interestingly, they found that this gap was positive for a large majority of the former colonies in their dataset (47 out of 64). In other words, most former colonies have a more favourable opinion of their coloniser than they have of other countries. Results are shown in the chart below.
Looking at the left-hand side of the chart, we can see that Poles have an unfavourable view of Russia, Greeks have an unfavourable view of Turkey, and Iraqis have an unfavourable view of Britain. None of which is particularly surprising. What is surprising, though, is that these are exceptions. Most former colonies have a favourable view of their coloniser.
Further analysis revealed that the tendency for ‘former-coloniser gaps’ to be positive, rather than negative, could be explained by three main factors: colonisers tend to be democratic; they tend to have large economies; and they tend to trade more with their former colonies.
The authors interpret their findings in line with an ‘admiration hypothesis’, whereby former colonies’ views of their colonisers are characterised more by admiration than by animosity and resentment.
Add this study to all the post-colonial reading lists.
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Has it occurred to anyone that the reason they are going to war against the moronic variant may be precisely because it may be as serious as a mild cold and may outcompete the other variants? Perhaps if this became dominant it would be game over for the scam.
They aren’t going to war against a virus.
They are going to war against the population
The goal is to enslave the population.
“Stop Press: According to the Telegraph, backbench Conservative MPs who are sceptical about the effectiveness of NPIs are asking for a House of Commons vote about the new restrictions on Tuesday. Read more on that story here.”
Yawn! I think we all know how that will go by now, and how utterly useless MPs have,been. collectively, throughout this episode.
I emailed my MP yesterday requesting that he ask for all current research on the efficacy and risks to physical and mental health of mask wearing before he votes. I also supplied some details of latest findings.
Of course he won’t, he’s a complete brown noser but he’s had the email and I’m getting quite a collection of the data he has ignored, all of which will be sent to any inquiry panel or prosecution team, I’m hoping for the latter.
Name and shame. My MP is Greg Clark, Tunbridge Wells.
Mine is Kevin Foster, Torbay.
Alex Cuntingham, Stockton North….unashamedly pro-mask, pro-lockdown and pro-immigration.
Depends how you want to define it, but i’d class myself as pro-immigration as believe there are logical, economical and ethical reasons to be so.
Masks and lockdowns however have no reasonable justification so not sure why you’ve conflated them with immigration.
I expect he’s done it because if the agenda is globalist, they go together.
Though I understand your view.
We will lose the vote, if there is one, and MPs have been close to useless, but I think asking for a vote and getting a debate is still worthwhile and important because it makes the evil cabal in charge realise, even if briefly, that someone is watching, and it goes some way towards pushing the sceptic POV back into the mainstream where it belongs, and gives wavering MPs a small opportunity to come over to our side. A tiny benefit, but still a benefit.
But there’ll probably only be one MP who shares the truth in the debate. Like every time before.
And also helps the awake man on the street – “See, they don’t even debate it.”
It forces them to show a loathing of open, democratic discussion.
That’s worth doing.
They are snakes. Below is an exchange I had with my MP. He didn’t bother to answer my final question. Rearranged into chronological order. He appears to think I’m stupid.
From: Redacted
Sent: 23 October 2021 22:14
To: GIRVAN, Paul
Subject: Covid Pass
Dear Mr Girvan,
I am writing as your constituent to express my concerns and objections to the proposed Covid Pass and to ask you to vote against mandatory Covid Passes in the forthcoming Parliamentary vote…(letter of about 10 paragraphs continues to explain my concerns, name and postal address included)
Yours sincerely,
Redacted
On 26 Oct 2021, at 14:57, Paul Girvan wrote:
Dear Redacted
Many thanks for your email. I can confirm that I am not in support of government legislation to introduce a mandatory covid passport.
I trust this is acceptable and answers your concerns.
Kind regards,
Paul
From: Redacted
Sent: 26 October 2021 15:32
To: GIRVAN, Paul
Subject: Re: Covid Pass (Case Ref: Redacted)
Dear Mr Girvan
Thank you for your response. You didn’t address my central question. Let me rephrase it. Will you vote against Covid Passes in any upcoming Parliamentary vote? And if not, why not, given your view stated below.
Kind regards,
Redacted
On 26 Oct 2021, at 16:05, Paul Girvan <paul.girvan.mp@parliament.uk> wrote:
Hi Redacted
I am not in favour of the government legislating in relation to this issue and will therefore not support any government vote to implement covid passes.
I hope this clarifies.
Best wishes
Paul
Dear Mr Girvan,
Thank you for your response. Let me spell it out for you. Will you abstain in a vote, or will you vote against the government? Us little people have grown accustomed to political nuance. Perhaps you can give me a straight answer this time, you know exactly what I am asking.
Very sincerely,
Redacted
Very good.
Girvan gave a fine example of the use of the verb “to palter” there.
“Simply put, the Government now reaches for societal interventions as the first resort to a perceived public health threat, rather than as a last resort. This is a worrying precedent as it opens the door to arbitrary restrictions by the executive on the population based on opinion rather than quantifiable facts. I’m sure the implications of that shift are obvious to readers.“
How is this any different to what they did in March 2020?
We didn’t know the full risks of the virus in March. A short precautionary lockdown made sense.
We’ve known that the virus isn’t particularly dangerous to the non-vulnerable since late April — the universal biocontrol measures since then don’t make sense; since then only targeted measures should have been used.
The craziness of the whole situation is that they’ve actually locked down vulnerable and non-vulnerable in step. This has led to the bonkers situation of having a universal lockdown one month with vulnerable octogenarians allowed to go and have a coffee in town the next month while at the same time completely non-vulnerable children’s education continued to be disrupted. The whole response has been driven by stupidity, not science or logic.
I disagree, we knew before the first lockdown that it was not the deadly disease they were making out due to it being removed from the HCID list, and the data coming from the Diamond Princess.
The response is not driven by stupidity it’s driven by the need to bring in vax passports.
The Diamond Princess is the one single item of data needed to understand this virus in terms of what the man in the street needs to do about it. That is, absolutely nothing he didn’t already do for any other respiratory virus.
Every other graph and list of numbers is pointless fluff. It just distracts from the lesson of the Diamond Princess.
And yet it appears to have been memory holed. I read something else by I think an American military doctor who said the Taiwanese had done a deep dive into covid mortality early on and discovered a consistent occurrence of Vitamin D deficiency. She was advocating for vitamin D3 with K2, zinc, selenium, N acetylcysteine, IVM, HQC etc and was therefore also memory holed.
One effect of removing covid from the HCID list was that it is no longer possible to get emergency use authorisation for repurposed drugs such as Hydroxychloroquine or Ivermectin.
Unintended side effect, or part of a sinister conspiracy?
“We’ve known that the virus isn’t particularly dangerous to the non-vulnerable since late April —”
W knew that in March.
How do you determine the severity of any new variant if everyone in the ‘control’ group has already received a covid jab and those jabs are working as claimed?
And how do you determine the ‘efficacy’ of any new jabs against variants without a proportion of the population un-jabbed for comparison? If we’d all ‘done a Gibraltar‘ we’d have seriously compromised the ability of scientists to do science.
The vaccine programme could be read as a modern day inquisition. It’s an ingenious way of establishing who is prepared to accept the new false ideology and who isn’t. Not dissimilar to the purges seen in 20th century totalitarian systems. We have identified ourselves as fifth columnists. The question is how do the present day tyrants deal with us without appearing like tyrants?
This is true.
You demonstrate your acquiescence by believing their lies.
As the lies become more and more unbelievable, you signal your further obedience by believing them.
This is total satanic control.
Whatever the dominant partner demands, however absurd, it is complied with by the faithful.
You’re right, but also the scammed save face by daring not admit to the scammer they know they’ve been scammed, like this guy.
“I don’t understand how people can be so gullible and naive.” (comment)
Yes indeed, quite remarkable isn’t it? I wonder if that comment was made by someone who took a certain injection this year…..
Omicron. Love it. It’s sexier than Delta. It’s deadlier than Delta.
next ‘variant’?
Captor.
There’s a third analysis on this variation that the good doctor misses. It might be worse, it might be better, or it might as I suspect by entirely fabricated for use a prop in fear porn.
Given that it takes some considerable time, and a lot of money, to work out what “variant” someone has, it strikes me that there are many, many porkies being told here.
I think it should be pretty clear to everyone now:
Admissions/cases/deaths/ICU going up = unvaxxed/new variant
Admissions/cases/deaths/ICU going down = vaccines/boosters/NPIs/our wonderful NHS
Hospitals in USA and in first world countries are refusing life-saving Ivermectin treatment even with court orders. Big Pharma doing everything they can to jab us no matter what, while alternative COVID cures EXIST! There happens to be heavy censorship who are looking for these treatments. The Research Is Clear: Ivermectin Is a Safe, Effective Treatment for COVID. Get your Ivermectin today while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
THE WHO declared a global health pandemic on January 30, 2020
666 days later
The WHO classified the Omicron variant as a VOC on November 26, 2021
Correction :
That should have read :
( The WHO declared a pandemic on March 11, 2021 )
Good spot if that’s correct ModeRNA I may have to use that.
Great piece. Thank you, Dr DS.
Incidentally, I like “incidental Covid”. Great phrase. We should all use that as much as possible in speech and writing: “But so many of the hospital deaths they’re talking about are just incidental Covid aren’t they? Like Captain Tom.”
It puts “with Covid” deaths back in their rightful box.
I fear someone noticed their PPE (mask) profits starting to dip a teeny bit and sensed an air of freedom/liberty creeping back into the mostly cowed and terrified populace. I also sense concern from the evil bastards pulling the strings.
This feels a bit like desperation coming from them. Way Over the top lies and repeat freedom grabbing. It’s as if they know even the ‘moronic’ are becoming a wee bit immune to their by now standard filth and lies. They’ve had to ramp it up a notch or two to get the same effect. You know, a bit like alcohol or drugs.
Ironically, we the awake seem to be getting more and more sensitive to the tsunami of 100% proof Bullshit we are being waterboarded with. The more we have to swallow, the less tolerant we become.
Whatever will they come up with next, eh?
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Other venues are available all over the country, but you won’t find their details on MSM.
If unsure A good start would be Telegram groups for your area. “A Stand in the Park – Bracknell & Wokingham”. Via posts from our very own ‘Lockdown Sceptic’ A regular here on DS
”…whether this new variant is a bad one (more infectious and more lethal) or a good one (more infectious but less severe)…”
So what happened to the very definitive statements we’ve been hearing all through this ”pandemic” that viruses mutate but become more transmissible but less deadly? Shall we assume that was all tripe then?