Vassenor wrote:Ostroeuropa wrote:
Yes, it is anti-british to portray a narrative where everything worthwhile about Britain is foreign. Artificially selecting a list to drive home that point is anti-british for the same reason deciding to make a song about black people and then only selecting criminals to talk about would be racist. "But i'm just listing facts" is not a defense, because you have decided which facts are important enough to highlight, and the ones you have decided are most important are the ones that devalue the UK and its contributions. Much like the constant negativity those types of people have for british history and the empire, it's revealing of their subjective evaluation and how it is anti-british, or more accurately, how they hate britain and then go out searching for examples to spam people with to justify their hatred and to demean the country.
It's part of a pretty consistent anti-british attitude the progressives and liberals have advanced for, well, hundreds of years now actually in the case of liberals.
Your feigned ignorance of how this is racist and anti-british would vanish if I were to up and decide we need to talk about Islam and then listed nothing but atrocities and negative things while remaining silent on examples that don't drive a narrative of Islam = violent/dangerous.
In this example, and in plenty of others and the overarching remoaner narrative, Britain is useless and has produced nothing of value and would be lost without the EU, everything good about us is foreign and the only locally produced thing is superstitious ignorance, stupidity, and ingratitude to our benefactors without whom we would have nothing. This may remind you of the sneering attitudes people had to colonies and how we "Brought them civilization" and "Without us you would be in mud huts", because it's the same attitude, and the same expression of contempt, merely directed against the native populace.
Sing a song about how a bunch of things in colonies are legacies of the UK and British institutions and they have no worthwhile culture of their own, see how it goes.
But I thought teaching people about the history of the British Empire was what the Leavers wanted.
Yes, page 88, right after free gammon and bringing back hanging. How did you get hold of the secret documents?