Thomas_More
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No. Imagine the patriotic idiots demonstrating if the PCers were really bold and had Churchill played by a black actor. Or, better still, make Churchill not only black, but a woman too. Winnie.
Except that film blockbusters and sensational TV fictions are the majority’s only historical references, and those questioning the fictions in some cases are labelled “racist” or else.
The Youtuber here makes a good point, that historically real African protagonists are ignored in favour of making a Greek queen black: and in fact continuing thereby to keep the field of historical reference Eurocentric.
A recently advertised fiction which has every second English 18th century aristocrat played by a black actor/actress would be fun as satire, but that is not the intent. It too is a slap in the face of the real Africans in their millions who were enslaved and transported for over three centuries.
The PCers wouldn’t dare, themselves, to give us a black Winston Churchill, although THAT I would enjoy!
Well that’s something. It is very sad, in fact, to think of children in concrete landscapes sat in front of computers and glued, already, to mobile phones and digital games.
Those with deprived backgrounds, i understand, never enjoyed the happy childhood i did, so won’t have any affection for their childhood years. But i myself cannot imagine today’s childhoods, without books and toys galore, and things real, not virtual.
Often i think i’m the only one here with William Morris’ passion for things: for that which was beautiful about the past, even if life was often sordid (it still is that!); for artefacts, artisanry, books, tapestries. Wasn’t his dream that everyone should enjoy such things and not just a few; not that they should disappear and be mere memories for a few sentimentalists, and that all of us should become lumpen automata?
It isn’t young people i am blaming. It’s what is being done to them by the producers of junior dictionaries and other internet-obsessed and newspeak-obsessed pundits.
Couldn’t a US Trumpite indifference toward NATO result in a free-for-all on both sides: both Russia and the gung-ho Baltics?
Now that Trump is bound to win, after recent events, how do we see the Ukraine situation, and the NATO build-up in Europe, panning out?
I don’t know. If it’s already the case now, Trump will only give the Christian nuts further licence still.
From The New York Times:
A Fast-Growing Network of Conservative Groups Is Fueling a Surge in Book Bans
Some groups are new, some are longstanding. Some are local, others national. Over the past two years, they have become vastly more organized, well funded, effective — and criticized.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/12/books/book-bans-libraries.html?smid=em-share
In US most book are banned for racial and sexual content.
They thought they had a real choice and voted Johnson to beat Corbyn. My local Labour-voters voted Tory that year. But now they’re happy to vote Labour again, now Corbyn is gone.
