Some food for thought…Piccadilly Circus yesterday: ‘Happy Ramadan’ signs and lights everywhere, lots of swarthy foreign-looking men loitering around, Middle Eastern music blaring out left right and centre, bag searches being carried out on English theatre goers by foreign(!) security guards, the very group who pose any actual terrorist threat.
I am guessing that nobody wants to be the first to call out the author on this. She is a black woman, which makes telling her that she is a semi-literate fool quite a risky enterprise; especially in a university!
Why does "nobody wants to be the first to call out" this black woman?
Because:
(Anecdotal)
– "In the western world today, one of the most deadly accusations which can be laid against anybody is that a person is racist or sexist."
– "The very suggestion of such a thing can be enough to destroy a man's career or see him shunned like a leper."
(SOURCE: YouTube-video 2023-Mar-18, Simon WEBB (History Debunked): "When speaking the truth about gender and race becomes a revolutionary act", TIME 02:33)
(Officially declared)
– "We need to overcome the FEAR of being labelled [It is not only a label, but one of The worst accusations!, My Rem.] Islamophobic [And 'RACIST'] and speak truthfully [ie. Freedom of Speech/oppression of opinion]."
(SOURCE: The Telegraph 2024-Feb-22, Suella BRAVERMAN (MP), ex-Home Secretary.)
Why then do journalists (the guardians of freedom of speech) and politicians (elected symbols of democracy) not say anything?
Are they afraid too? Or, is it judged that a frightened and therefore silenced (english) 'racist' is a tolerable racist (unless that one gets caught, eg. Sam Melia of Patriotic Alternative, who identifys himself as such?, while muslims — from countries that respect jews and find diversity (cultural, ethnic, religious) to be a strength? — march the streets, alongside their english supporters?)?
Racist compared with whom? – History's nazis? Or, today's caribbeans/africans, arabs and asians, in respective countries or those who have chosen to live in England?
This is not viewed by the Establishment (ie. journalists, politicians, other public/authoritative persons) as hypocrisy, because... — Simon?, anyone?
Simply put, when people come across historical events portrayed in different forms of media, like books or movies, that encourage discussion, it affects how they understand and connect with history. This interaction happens within the context of society, politics, and culture, shaping how individuals perceive their own identities and those of others throughout history.
Great piece. It strikes me that people like you, outsiders to academia, are the most important historians at the moment because you cannot experience reprisal from either student mobs or faculty colleagues for telling the truth.
I did want to ask, since you appear to be knowledgeable with respect to the history of subsaharan Africa: Is there a reliable work on the topic you can recommend? I am desperate to learn more about it, but it seems everything I run across in my hunt is yet another absurd Afrocentric work (e.g. the Dogon people discovered celestial bodies invisible to the eye not just without telescopes, but without any known capability of polishing glass).
Anyway thank you for not wimping out like all the other supposed adults have.
Fortunately, I have never been either an academic or an intellectual, which, as you say, gives me a good deal more leeway than those at universities and so on. Generally, books about Africa published more than thirty years ago tend to be more accurate and objective than modern ones. I remember the Dogon myth starting, almost fifty years ago, when a book called The Sirius Mystery was published. It has grown into a complex mythology since then!
Hot on the heels of the Chancellor's budget announcement of £1m of taxpayers money, to be spent placating the Saturday 'hate marchers', by building a Muslim War memorial..... even government ministers have bought into this nonsense.
If you want to see what blacks are really, truly capable of, then I suggest you look up Valdo Calocane
Ah yes, the famous spree killer.
Good morning Simon, always good to hear from you.
Some food for thought…Piccadilly Circus yesterday: ‘Happy Ramadan’ signs and lights everywhere, lots of swarthy foreign-looking men loitering around, Middle Eastern music blaring out left right and centre, bag searches being carried out on English theatre goers by foreign(!) security guards, the very group who pose any actual terrorist threat.
Yes, I am always amused to have my bag searched in that way, especially by somebody who is obviously Muslim!
I enjoyed your article, Simon. The piece referenced is certainly purest gobbledygook! How do presumably intelligent readers put up with it?
I am guessing that nobody wants to be the first to call out the author on this. She is a black woman, which makes telling her that she is a semi-literate fool quite a risky enterprise; especially in a university!
Why does "nobody wants to be the first to call out" this black woman?
Because:
(Anecdotal)
– "In the western world today, one of the most deadly accusations which can be laid against anybody is that a person is racist or sexist."
– "The very suggestion of such a thing can be enough to destroy a man's career or see him shunned like a leper."
(SOURCE: YouTube-video 2023-Mar-18, Simon WEBB (History Debunked): "When speaking the truth about gender and race becomes a revolutionary act", TIME 02:33)
(Officially declared)
– "We need to overcome the FEAR of being labelled [It is not only a label, but one of The worst accusations!, My Rem.] Islamophobic [And 'RACIST'] and speak truthfully [ie. Freedom of Speech/oppression of opinion]."
(SOURCE: The Telegraph 2024-Feb-22, Suella BRAVERMAN (MP), ex-Home Secretary.)
Why then do journalists (the guardians of freedom of speech) and politicians (elected symbols of democracy) not say anything?
Are they afraid too? Or, is it judged that a frightened and therefore silenced (english) 'racist' is a tolerable racist (unless that one gets caught, eg. Sam Melia of Patriotic Alternative, who identifys himself as such?, while muslims — from countries that respect jews and find diversity (cultural, ethnic, religious) to be a strength? — march the streets, alongside their english supporters?)?
Racist compared with whom? – History's nazis? Or, today's caribbeans/africans, arabs and asians, in respective countries or those who have chosen to live in England?
This is not viewed by the Establishment (ie. journalists, politicians, other public/authoritative persons) as hypocrisy, because... — Simon?, anyone?
Simply put, when people come across historical events portrayed in different forms of media, like books or movies, that encourage discussion, it affects how they understand and connect with history. This interaction happens within the context of society, politics, and culture, shaping how individuals perceive their own identities and those of others throughout history.
Hi Simon.
Great piece. It strikes me that people like you, outsiders to academia, are the most important historians at the moment because you cannot experience reprisal from either student mobs or faculty colleagues for telling the truth.
I did want to ask, since you appear to be knowledgeable with respect to the history of subsaharan Africa: Is there a reliable work on the topic you can recommend? I am desperate to learn more about it, but it seems everything I run across in my hunt is yet another absurd Afrocentric work (e.g. the Dogon people discovered celestial bodies invisible to the eye not just without telescopes, but without any known capability of polishing glass).
Anyway thank you for not wimping out like all the other supposed adults have.
Fortunately, I have never been either an academic or an intellectual, which, as you say, gives me a good deal more leeway than those at universities and so on. Generally, books about Africa published more than thirty years ago tend to be more accurate and objective than modern ones. I remember the Dogon myth starting, almost fifty years ago, when a book called The Sirius Mystery was published. It has grown into a complex mythology since then!
Hot on the heels of the Chancellor's budget announcement of £1m of taxpayers money, to be spent placating the Saturday 'hate marchers', by building a Muslim War memorial..... even government ministers have bought into this nonsense.