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Doesn’t Macron know as much about 20th century French history as I do?
And I don’t know much. From Harper’s Weekly Review: After Emmanuel Macron described a decision to limit the number of visas granted to Algerians as a way “to annoy people” from Algeria’s ruling classes for promoting “a discourse based on … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Racism, The Facts of Life
Tagged Algiers, Emmanuel Macron, Harper's, The Battle of Algiers
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The glory of empire…built by slaves, reparations and lut
Those of us who read Jane Austen are not startled to face facts about the British Empire’s centuries-old role in slavery. Although Austen’s references to slavery are muted, in both Mansfield Park (1814) and her last novel, Persuasion (1818), the … Continue reading
Posted in Racism, The Facts of Life, The War On Workers
Tagged "Country Houses and the British Empire", "Home Truth", Amazing Grace, Britain's anti-slavery laws, British East India Company, British slavery, British West Indies, Clemson University, East India Company, Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, Marquess of Lothian, National Trust Properties, Penrhyn Castle, Persuasion, Richard Pennant, Robert Clive, Sam Knight, Slavery Abolition Act, slavery reparations, The Legacies of Slavery database, The National Trust, The New Yorker, the old testament, the Ten Commandments, Tibet
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The problem with god
Lacks empathy. Is racist. Defaults to lies. Hires creepy spokesmen. From Harper’s Weekly Review: In Canada, a video surfaced of a Catholic priest giving a sermon in which he claimed that survivors of residential schools lied about sexual abuse in … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholic Church, indigenous Canadians, the god problem
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