Taxpayers are set to finance a £475-per-day expert tasked with “decolonising” sections of Hadrian’s Wall. The Mail has more.
A newly created post aims to address “Britain’s colonial past and systemic racism” at two ancient forts on the wall – even though they were built by the ancient Romans who invaded Britain, leading to the deaths of an estimated 750,000 people.
Critics have pointed to the double standard of seeking to denigrate Britain’s colonial past while celebrating the achievements of the Roman Empire.
The “decolonisation specialist” is to be employed by the council-funded Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums group to cover nine locations in North East England.
They include the Arbeia and Segedunum forts on Hadrian’s Wall, hailed as “bastions against barbarian attack”. Experts point out that Celtic Picts were massacred in their thousands during the Romans’ occupation of Britain. …
Historian Jeremy Black, said: “Decolonisation is the gravy train for third-raters who hate their country and its history. There is absolutely no merit to this proposal and expenditure.”
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Present-day ‘decoloniziation’ is what happens when people in charge of manageing a certain (perceived) problem suddenly find themselves without it because it has been solved. They then take their terminology and use it to go on rampage elsewhere in the hope that it’ll take a long time for people to notice that there really isn’t a need for them anymore. Real ‘decolonisation’, the original political goal of the UN, ended over 40 years ago. OTOH, the last European (really Americans of European descent) holdouts of the ancient practice of slavery were forced to let go of it over 150 years ago. The so-called progressive don’t really seem capable of much progress.
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for all decolonisation and anti slavery experts:
https://visitukraine.today/blog/1797/how-to-join-the-international-legion-of-defense-of-ukraine-detailed-instructions-for-foreigners
The requirement for combat experience has meanwile been dropped:
https://visitukraine.today/blog/2228/updated-rules-for-joining-the-international-legion-of-ukraine-for-foreigners-simplified-procedure-current-requirements-application-instructions
Scotland was never colonised, England was! Sure, eventually, the English ran Scotland as they partly do today, but that was, and is, because the Jocks have bugger all under their kilts and they agreed to be ruled. When They had a referendum they lifted their kilts and found a Laughing Emoji and voted to continue to be ruled by the big, bad Colonisers. Why on earth am I paying towards this and not the Italians?
Actually it was the Scots who ran England when their King James VI inherited the Throne from Elizabeth I to become James I of England and Ireland.
Then the Stuart dynasty reigned until 1688 – aside a brief interruption when Charles I lost his head – when James II was given the elbow and replaced with the House of Orange.
Most certainly it was and, therefore, do the Scots not owe us reparations? We did not colonise them at any point in history. Hell, arguably even the Romans didn’t because Scotland was an arse of a country and they just wanted to keep them out. Hence, Hadrians Wall.
Weren’t Picts also massacred by the Scoti – from Scotus, a Roman name for the Irish lands – who invaded and colonised Scotland (giving it its name) prior to and during the Roman colonisation of Britain?
How are we doing with reparations from Italy for the British slaves taken by Rome?
How about the reparations from slavers who took, or killed, everyone from a village in Cornwall let alone all the thousands of others they took from all around Western Europe?
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Barbary-Pirates-English-Slaves/
What? You mean the Scoti moved out of Ireland because what became Scotland was better? ‘Kinell!
No idea why the Irish moved, perhaps it was because it was easier to take on whatever Scotland was previously called than head South and take on England? I shall have to have a look at this because it is a huge hole in my historical knowledge, such as it is.
The seriously dangerous part of all this crap is that what they really intend to do is erase history. The Nazi’s were really nice to Jews and the Jews have nothing to complain about (see antisemitic protests every Saturday, laughably “Policed” by the Met who somehow manage to only charge and beat up Jews.
We all know the “First they came for the Jews” but now they are well down the line and into you territory. We already have the “they came for the Anti-Vaxxers” and “They are in the processing stage of Sceptics”. We are facing the destruction of the past, the present and the future.
I now laugh at George Orwell, he was way off the mark, the Aspidistra fell long ago.
Jews were further down the list. First they came for the Communists.
It’s interesting that the Netflix mini-series on Hitler only really mentions the Jews but shows Hitlers cohorts pulling down Communist posters. I have to admit though Robert Carlyle would get an Oscar as Hitler if it was a film.
My, historically inaccurate of course, point was to highlight the fact the same people are, once again, coming for the same people. What else is Ukraine about and what are the Met Knee Benders about? Change the shirts and what do you get?
Carlyle was great in that, I had the DVD once.
Bruno Ganz in Downfall topped the lot.
For a different historical perspective, The Holy Kingdom by Adrian Gilbert based on the research of Alan Wilson and Baram Blackett is worth a read.
“Britain was never fully conquered by the Romans but retained its culture, it’s royal families intermarrying with the Caesars”
There’s an interesting interview by Richard D Hall with Adrian Gilbert where non-conspiratorial Gilbert describes the curious way the book was brought to a quick end in hardback and then paperback despite having the market indicators of being a reliable seller.
It will give someone the opportunity to see colonistaion and Britain in a new light, with the Brits being colonised by Rome. I look forward to recommendations to seek reparations from Italy.
Time to start decolonising the decolonisers.
That’s a neat idea. This so-called colonial perspective is really only theirs and maybe, they should get professional help to overcome it instead of forcing it onto all others.
That’s really a hallmark of present-day liberalism which has long since ceased to be about empowering people to be what they are while tolerating that others may and likely will be something different. Instead, it’s now about the liberal-controlled state oppressing the population majority and trying to force them to become something they are not for the nominal benefit of all kinds of so-called minority groups. The benefit is nominal because actual members of these groups are also only allowed to conform to the official dogma and if they don’t, they end up being ruthlessly abused in public at the very least.
This has really been turned completely on the head. It used to be about liberating the individual from state oppression. Nowdays, there’s a state definition of liberal and people are forced – sometimes seriously violently forced, cf the police brutality in Australia, New Zealand or Germany during the so-called ‘pandemic’ – to conform to his particular definition, the motto being one of the fundamental dictums of post-war Germany, namely No freedom for the enemies of freedom. An orwellian statement if there ever was any as this simply means No freedom for anyone.