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In 1555 AD the Oxford Martyrs were captured by England's leading intellectuals, men at the University of Oxford, devoting their lives to study. These leading clerics, a brace of Anglican bishops Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley plus Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury were charged, given a fair trial, convicted, sentenced and burnt at the stake. The charge was heresy. The men convicted are now referred to as the Oxford Martyrs when they are remembered at all. NB Cranmer compiled the first Book of Common Prayer in 1549 so he wasn't just another place man.
Given that the losers were career Christians at the top of the game, running the Church of England you might feel that prosecuting them as heretics must have been an ill founded Malicious Prosecution. That the prosecutors were rogues rather than fools. The same applies to our current crop of loud mouthed agitators.
A few years earlier, in 1535 AD, William Tyndale was also burnt at the stake in the Low Countries but they were not so vicious; strangling him to death first was kinder. His sin was translating The Bible into English. Possessing one was punishable by death in England but not in foreign parts.
It was not just the Quasi-Intellectuals either. On 27 June 1556 AD the Stratford Martyrs, eleven men and two women were burned at the stake for holding to their Protestant beliefs at Stratford-le-Bow, Middlesex or Stratford, Essex, both near London. They were given chances to recant their heresy but refused. Three others took the coward's way by saying they had it wrong.
Now, in 2020 AD, over 400 years later the Intelligentsia don't care about The Bible, they despise religion but they believe fairy stories about Global Warming, the Transgender racket and other ideas. Do they understand the science of global warming? Not if their chosen field was Mediaeval Latin or some such but they shout all the louder. It compensates for their ignorance.
Consider the issue from the other side. The Quasi-Intellectuals of the day and their rivals almost certainly agreed about certain things. They did not need to discuss them, they were just obvious. Objecting to Adultery? Naturally; it is forbidden by the Ten Commandments. Then there are Homosexuals, Paedophiles; perverts all. What about Bestiality & Necrophilia? Probably unthinkable at the time. Incest was generally known and known to be bad news.
But if you were to ask those wonderful modern Oxford intellectuals today about Sexual Perversions you would find they are much more relaxed. Object to homosexuality? If you haven't tried it don't knock it. There are other evasions of depravity.
These attitudes, then and now are Legitimising Ideologies. They are also a reality of Mob Psychology. To be fair, men at Oxford studying engineering or science might be different, helping make the world a better place, learning useful things. They might even go on to prove it by starting firms producing things that people want. The humanities types are more likely to find themselves in the BBC, making careers by having the right opinions. That is Mob Psychology or Herd Mentality . If that means protecting Paedophile Perverts like Rolf Harris or pushing Paedophile Propaganda so be it. The price makes it all worthwhile. The favoured few do very nicely. One who did well for herself was Jo Cox, a mouthy ratbag who worked in the Charity Industry, snivelled to the right people then became the MP for Rotherham. She didn't care two pence for the English girls being Raped wholesale by Pakistani Perverts. She was a Cultural Marxist, one of the Enemy Within until Tommy Mair stopped her game by killing her. He got life for his pains.
One who studied Herd Mentality was Theodor Adorno, a Jew who ran the Frankfurt School. It infiltrated the Education Industry in America in order to Subvert. They succeeded brilliantly. The sanctimonious output of various universities is thoroughly Brainwashed; they really seem to believe that Blacks are victims of systematic Racism in Western Civilization, especially America.
The Puppet Masters, the Zionist crazies are winning. Western Civilization is being destroyed.
If you think the country is not heavily infested with over-educated fools have a look at the Pretentious Drivel.
Other aspects of the same issue are explored in:-
Be aware too that Intellectuals Are Slobs according to Miss Marx, daughter of that great philosopher Karl Marx. She might have known.
Oxford Martyrs ex Wiki
The Oxford Martyrs were Protestants tried for heresy in 1555 and burnt at the stake in Oxford, England, for their religious beliefs and teachings, during the Marian persecution in England.The three martyrs were the Anglican bishops Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley and Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
History
The three were tried at University Church of St Mary the Virgin, the official church of the University of Oxford on the High Street. The men were imprisoned at the former Bocardo Prison near the extant St Michael at the Northgate church (at the north gate of the city walls) in Cornmarket Street. The door of their cell is on display in the tower of the church.The men were burnt at the stake just outside the city walls to the north, where Broad Street is now located. Latimer and Ridley were burnt on 16 October 1555. Cranmer was burnt five months later on 21 March 1556.
A small area paved with granite setts forming a cross in the centre of the road outside the front of Balliol College marks the site. The Victorian spire-like Martyrs' Memorial, at the south end of St Giles' nearby, commemorates the events. It is claimed, notably in the early part of the novel 'The Negotiator' by Frederick Forsyth, that the scorch marks from the flames can still be seen on the doors of Balliol College (now rehung between the Front Quadrangle and Garden Quadrangle).
University of Oxford ex Wiki
The University of Oxford (legally The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096,[2] making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's second-oldest university in continuous operation.[2][10] It grew rapidly from 1167 when Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris.[2] After disputes between students and Oxford townsfolk in 1209, some academics fled north-east to Cambridge where they established what became the University of Cambridge.[11] The two "ancient universities" are frequently jointly called "Oxbridge". The history and influence of the University of Oxford have made it one of the most prestigious universities in the world.[12][13]The university is made up of 39 constituent colleges, six permanent private halls, and a range of academic departments which are organised into four divisions.[14] All the colleges are self-governing institutions within the university, each controlling its own membership and with its own internal structure and activities.[15] It does not have a main campus, and its buildings and facilities are scattered throughout the city centre. Undergraduate teaching at Oxford is organised around weekly tutorials at the colleges and halls, supported by classes, lectures, seminars, and laboratory work provided by university faculties and departments; some postgraduate teaching, and occasionally undergraduate teaching, includes tutorials organised by faculties and departments. It operates the world's oldest university museum, as well as the largest university press in the world[16] and the largest academic library system nationwide.[17]
In the fiscal year ending 31 July 2019, the university had a total income of £2.45 billion, of which £624.8 million was from research grants and contracts.[3] The university is ranked among the best higher learning institutions by most international and major national league tables.[18][19][20]
Oxford has educated a wide range of notable alumni, including 28 prime ministers of the United Kingdom and many heads of state and government around the world.[21] As of November 2019, 72 Nobel Prize laureates, 3 Fields Medalists, and 6 Turing Award winners have studied, worked, or held visiting fellowships at the University of Oxford, while its alumni have won 160 Olympic medals.[22] Oxford is the home of numerous scholarships, including the Rhodes Scholarship, one of the oldest international graduate scholarship programmes.[23]
William Tyndale ex Wiki
William Tyndale (/ˈtɪndəl/;[1] sometimes spelled Tynsdale, Tindall, Tindill, Tyndall; c. 1494 – c. 6 October 1536) was an English scholar who became a leading figure in the Protestant Reformation in the years leading up to his execution. He is well known for his (incomplete) translation of the Bible into English, influenced by the work of Erasmus of Rotterdam and of Martin Luther.[2]A number of partial English translations had been made from the seventh century onward, but the religious ferment caused by Wycliffe's Bible in the late 14th century led to the death penalty for anyone found in unlicensed possession of Scripture in English, although translations were available in all other major European languages.[3]
Tyndale worked during a Renaissance of scholarship, which saw the publication of Reuchlin's Hebrew grammar 1506. Greek was available to the European scholarly community for the first time in centuries, as it welcomed Greek-speaking intellectuals and texts following the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Notably, Erasmus compiled, edited, and published the Greek Scriptures in 1516. Luther's German Bible appeared in 1522.
Tyndale's translation was the first English Bible to draw directly from Hebrew and Greek texts, the first English translation to take advantage of the printing press, the first of the new English Bibles of the Reformation, and the first English translation to use Jehovah ("Iehouah") as God's name as preferred by English Protestant Reformers.[a] It was taken to be a direct challenge to the hegemony of both the Catholic Church and the laws of England maintaining the church's position.
A copy of Tyndale's The Obedience of a Christian Man (1528), which argued that the king of a country should be the head of that country's church rather than the pope, fell into the hands of the English king Henry VIII, providing a rationale to break the Church in England from the Catholic Church in 1534.[4][5] Before this, in 1530, Tyndale wrote The Practyse of Prelates, opposing Henry's annulment of his own marriage on the grounds that it contravened Scripture.[6]
Fleeing England, Tyndale sought refuge in the Flemish territory of the Catholic Emperor Charles V. In 1535, Tyndale was arrested and jailed in the castle of Vilvoorde (Filford) outside Brussels for over a year. In 1536, he was convicted of heresy and executed by strangulation, after which his body was burnt at the stake. His dying prayer was that the King of England's eyes would be opened; this seemed to find its fulfillment just one year later with Henry's authorisation of the Matthew Bible, which was largely Tyndale's own work, with missing sections translated by John Rogers and Miles Coverdale.
Tyndale's translation of the Bible was plagarized for subsequent English translations, including the Great Bible and the Bishop's Bible, authorised by the church of England. In 1611, the 47 scholars who produced the King James Bible[7] drew significantly from Tyndale's original work and the other translations that descended from his.[8] One estimate suggests that the New Testament in the King James Version is 83% Tyndale's words, and the Old Testament 76%.[9][10] Hence, the work of Tyndale continued to play a key role in spreading Reformation ideas across the English-speaking world, and eventually across the British Empire. In 2002, Tyndale was placed 26th in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons.[11][12]
Mob Psychology ex Wiki
Crowd psychology, also known as mob psychology, is a branch of social psychology. Social psychologists have developed several theories for explaining the ways in which the psychology of a crowd differs from and interacts with that of the individuals within it. Major theorists in crowd psychology include Gustave Le Bon, Gabriel Tarde, Sigmund Freud, and Steve Reicher. This field relates to the behaviors and thought processes of both the individual crowd members and the crowd as an entity.[1] Crowd behavior is heavily influenced by the loss of responsibility of the individual and the impression of universality of behavior, both of which increase with crowd size.[2][3]Origins
The psychological study of crowd phenomena was documented decades prior to 1900, as European culture was imbued with thoughts of the fin de siècle. This "modern" urban culture perceived that they were living in a new and different age. They witnessed marvelous new inventions and experienced life in new ways. The population, now living in densely packed, industrialized cities, such as Milan and Paris, witnessed the development of the light bulb, radio, photography, moving-picture shows, the telegraph, the bicycle, the telephone, and the railroad system. They experienced a faster pace of life and viewed human life as segmented, so they designated each of these phases of life with a new name. They created new concepts like "the adolescent", "kindergarten", "the vacation", "camping in nature", "the 5-minute segment", and "travel for the sake of pleasure" as a leisure class to describe these new ways of life..............The first debate in crowd psychology began in Rome at the first International Congress of Criminal Anthropology on 16 November 1885. The meeting was dominated by Cesare Lombroso and his fellow Italians, who emphasized the biological determinates..............
Literature on crowds and crowd behavior appeared as early as 1841, with the publication of Charles Mackay's book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.[8] [ Rather good - Editor ]. The attitude towards crowds underwent an adjustment with the publication of Hippolyte Taine's six-volume The Origins of Contemporary France (1875). In particular Taine's work helped to change the opinions of his contemporaries on the actions taken by the crowds during the 1789 Revolution.
Sigmund Freud's crowd behavior theory primarily consists of the idea that becoming a member of a crowd serves to unlock the unconscious mind. This occurs because the super-ego, or moral center of consciousness, is displaced by the larger crowd, to be replaced by a charismatic crowd leader. McDougall argues similarly to Freud, saying that simplistic emotions are widespread, and complex emotions are rarer. In a crowd, the overall shared emotional experience reverts to the least common denominator (LCD), leading to primitive levels of emotional expression.[1] This organizational structure is that of the "primal horde" – pre-civilized society - and Freud states that one must rebel against the leader (re-instate the individual morality) in order to escape from it.[1] Moscovici expanded on this idea, discussing how dictators such as Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin have used mass psychology to place themselves in this "horde leader" position.[10]
Theodor Adorno criticized the belief in a spontaneity of the masses: according to him, the masses were an artificial product of "administrated" modern life. The Ego of the bourgeois subject dissolved itself, giving way to the Id and the "de-psychologized" subject. Furthermore, Adorno stated the bond linking the masses to the leader through the spectacle is feigned:
"When the leaders become conscious of mass psychology and take it into their own hands, it ceases to exist in a certain sense. ... Just as little as people believe in the depth of their hearts that the Jews are the devil, do they completely believe in their leader. They do not really identify themselves with him but act this identification, perform their own enthusiasm, and thus participate in their leader's performance. ... It is probably the suspicion of this fictitiousness of their own 'group psychology' which makes fascist crowds so merciless and unapproachable. If they would stop to reason for a second, the whole performance would go to pieces, and they would be left to panic."[15]
Herd Mentality ex Wiki
Herd mentality, mob mentality and pack mentality, also lesser known as gang mentality, describes how people can be influenced by their peers to adopt certain behaviors on a largely emotional, rather than rational, basis. When individuals are affected by mob mentality, they may make different decisions than they would have individually.Social psychologists study the related topics of group intelligence, crowd wisdom, groupthink, deindividuation, and decentralized decision making.
History
The idea of a "group mind" or "mob behavior" was first put forward by 19th-century French social psychologists Gabriel Tarde and Gustave Le Bon. Herd behavior in human societies has also been studied by Sigmund Freud and Wilfred Trotter, whose book Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War is a classic in the field of social psychology. Sociologist and economist Thorstein Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class illustrates how individuals imitate other group members of higher social status in their consumer behavior. More recently, Malcolm Gladwell in The Tipping Point, examines how cultural, social, and economic factors converge to create trends in consumer behavior. In 2004, the New Yorker's financial columnist James Suroweicki published The Wisdom of Crowds.Twenty-first-century academic fields such as marketing and behavioral finance attempt to identify and predict the rational and irrational behavior of investors. (See the work of Daniel Kahneman [ See Thinking Fast and Slow - Ed. ], Robert Shiller, Vernon L. Smith, and Amos Tversky.) Driven by emotional reactions such as greed and fear, investors can be seen to join in frantic purchasing and sales of stocks, creating bubbles and crashes. As a result, herd behavior is closely studied by behavioral finance experts in order to help predict future economic crises.[1]
Oxford Museum Panders To Politically Correct Neo-Fascists
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Museums have long served as repositories for the spoils of colonialism—and the University of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum is no exception. Now, amid global protests against systemic racism, the English cultural institution has announced plans to reckon with its imperialist history by permanently removing a number of “contentious displays” from public view.At the height of the British Empire’s power in the 19th and 20th centuries, officials employed unethical tactics such as violence and looting to gather millions of artifacts from colonies around the world. Some of these questionably acquired objects ended up in glass display cases at the Pitt Rivers, which houses more than 500,000 items—including some 2,800 human remains—in its collections.
One particular group of items has attracted much attention over the years: 12 tsantsa, or shrunken human and animal heads, created by the Shuar and Achuar people of Ecuador and South America and acquired by the museum between 1884 and 1936. Of the seven human heads in its holdings, the Pitt Rivers believes that three are “authentic.” The other four are probably forgeries crafted out of bodies stolen from morgues or hospitals, reports David Batty for the Guardian.
Since going on display in the 1940s, the heads have been one of the museum’s most prominent attractions. But when the Oxford institution reopens on September 22, the tsantsa will no longer be on view. Per a statement, staff have removed a total of 120 human remains from display, moving them to storage as part of a museum-wide effort to decolonize the Pitt Rivers’ collections.
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I think it is fair to say that Lieutenant General Pitt Rivers would not have been amused by these Quasi-Intellectual twerps who have been propagandized by the Puppet Masters, the Zionist crazies of the Frankfurt School.
Percy Bysshe Shelley was expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism on 25 March 1811. Our Quasi-Intellectual betters [ in their opinions ] were part Christian. They had no room for dissent. The current crop are de facto atheists. Learned? Yes, but it's nonsense they study.
Private Eye [ 1586/8 - 18 November 2022 ]
Tells us that Martyn Percy, the dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford and head of the governing body of Christ Church resigned after getting aggravation from the management. It chose to waste better than £6.6 million to get rid of him. Then they put it through the books as "teaching, research and residential expenditure". The Eye did not say that it was fraudulent accounting; their output is legalled to forestall Libel nauseas. The Charity Commission didn't either but they issued an Official Warning to the Governing Body of Christ Church under Section 75 of the 2011 Charities Act for “mismanagement and/or misconduct by the trustees”. Hatred is alive and well in the religion business. Would they have had him burned at the stake if they could? Believe it.
That is not quite the point of this article; it leads into a review of a book by a rather sound sort of chap. None the less the point is made and well sourced.
Edmund Connelly
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In 1989, prolific British [ English in fact ] writer Paul Johnson published Intellectuals offering case studies of a string of intellectuals, beginning with Jean-Jacques Rousseau and then Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertold Brecht [ swine extraordinaire ], Bertrand Russell, Sartre, right on down to more modern public thinkers. Johnson’s point is that however much these men (and Lillian Hellman) might have professed love of “humanity” and “progress,” they were rats to the actual people around them.For example, Johnson wrote of the poet Shelley:
Any moth than came near his fierce flame was singed. His first wife, Harriet, and his mistress, Fay Godwin, both committed suicide when he deserted them. In his letters he denounced their actions roundly for causing him distress and inconvenience. . . . His children by Harriet were made wards of the court. He erased them completely from his mind, and they never received a single word from their father. Another child, a bastard, died in a Naples foundling hospital where he had abandoned her.
Of Karl Marx, the self-professed savior of the working man, Johnson wrote: He seduced his wife’s servant, begot a son by her [ Confirmed at Citizendium ], then forced Friedrich Engels to assume paternity. Marx’s daughter Eleanor once let out a cri de coeur in a letter: “Is it not wonderful, when you come to look things squarely in the face, how rarely we seem to practice all the fine things we preach—to others?” She later committed suicide.
Johnson concluded that we must “Beware intellectuals.” “Not only should they be kept well away from the levers of power, they should also be objects of particular suspicion when they seek to offer collective advice.”
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At least some of these accusations are true.
Paedophile Pervert Teaching At Oxford Gets Off With Seven Months [ 20 March 2020 ]
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An Oxford university professor who wrote an essay on the Ethics of Child Pornography while working at the prestigious campus, has today been jailed for accessing indecent images of children. Philosophy lecturer Peter King had previously been cautioned by police for looking up search terms like 'schoolgirl' on his computer, a court heard, but he had claimed he was only doing it as research for his academic paper.The 63-year-old had written an essay titled No Plaything: Ethical Issues Concerning Child-pornography, which was accepted into a prestigious [ sic ] academic journal in 2007, prosecutors said.
A summary of the piece he published 12 years ago reads: 'I look at the question of harm to the children involved, the consumers, and society in general, at the question of blame, and at the possibility of a morally acceptable form of child-pornography.' He had been a lecturer working for Pembroke College, Oxford which suspended King after he admitted making indecent images of children, a judge was told. The college said that it had only been made aware of the charges against King the day before his court appearance where he entered a guilty plea in February.
A spokesman for the Crown Prosecution Service said: 'Almost 3,000 indecent images of children and more than 300 prohibited images were found on his computer.......... Analysis of his computer and hard drives showed regular access to indecent sites and his search history included "schoolgirl".'
Judge Maria Lamb, sitting at Oxford Crown Court, told King his offending was so serious that the only appropriate punishment would be an immediate custodial term. The judge jailed King for seven months and made him subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order...........
'The law is in place to protect young children and we are dedicated to bringing perpetrators of this crime to justice.'
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The Judge went easy on him. King is a Subversive, a Moral Cretin, a dangerous fool, or one of Lenin's Useful Idiots. Recall that in 1555 AD England's leading intellectuals at Oxford burnt the Archbishop of Canterbury at the stake for some reason; even throwing in a pair of bishops for emphasis. Now the current crop of arrogant fools, deceived by the rogues marketing Marx are inciting Moral Relativism as well as Paedophilia and Male Homosexuality as Legitimising Ideologies with the enthusiastic help of the BBC, the wonderful organisation that protects Jimmy Savile and his peculiar Paedophile friends. When they have succeeded in the acceptance of Paedophilia as well as homosexuality they will start marketing Bestiality.
Oxford Launches Black Only Scholarships [ 2 October 2020 ]
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Oxford University has launched a scholarship scheme exclusively for black students - two years after snubbing grime star Stormzy's offer to fund a similar programme. The Black Academic Futures programme will provide up to 10 new scholarships to UK research students starting studies next year.University bosses admit [ sic ] that black UK graduate students are particularly under-represented at Oxford, making up a proportion of around 1.5 per cent of all postgraduate students, compared with four per cent across all universities.
The scheme comes less than two years after rapper Stormzy offered to pay for two young black teenagers to attend Oxford, but claimed the elite institution 'did not want to get involved'.
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What are these blacks going to be researching? Take the point that it will not be Astrophysics or Mathematics, nothing involving real intelligence. But if they have the gift of the gab like the Very Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King they can do it his way, by cheating. What the university is doing is pandering to blacks; it is the current Legitimising Ideology. These leading Quasi-Intellectuals did the same before, in 1556. That time they claimed that three bishops were heretics, then burnt them at the stake. More and better details at the Protocols Of The Learned Elders Of Oxford. Arrogant fools then, still fools 400 odd years later.
PS The Mail is censoring comments, suppressing the truth - again. But it is not working. Honest Englishmen object to anti-White Racism. It's crime if we do it but not them. It is Selective Prosecution, which is corrupt malpractice.
Learned Hypocrites Of Oxford Refuse To Work [ 14 June 2021 ]
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Oxford dons who have joined a boycott at Oriel College in protest against the decision to keep the Cecil Rhodes statues are themselves being funded by imperialists. Several professors have refused to teach undergraduate students after the college refused to take down the controversial statue of the colonialist.But it has now emerged they are benefiting from financial legacies built on forced labour as they were accused of 'biting the hand that feeds them'.
Four of the dons have received funding from the Leverhulme Trust, created with funding from Lord Leverhulme, a soap magnate who established plantations in the 1910s in the Belgian Congo..............
Dr Agnieszka Kościańska is a visiting professor funded by the programme and is eligible to £150,000 of funding from the trust, while Dr Kathrin Bachleitner's research is fully funded by the IKEA foundation. The Swedish company has previously admitted using East German political prisoners as forced labours [ sic ] to make its goods during the Cold War.............
Nigel Biggar, regius professor of moral and pastoral theology at Oxford, said: 'These boycotters occupy positions or hold grants made in the name of Rhodes or other imperialists which they are happy to accept whilst berating the people who actually provided the funds.
'There is a certain moral inconsistency in doing that: you are biting the hand that feeds you, in effect.'............
An Oxford student in the 1870s, Rhodes left money to Oriel on his death in 1902 and his statue stands on the college's building on Oxford High Street. An imperialist, businessman and politician, he played a dominant role in southern Africa in the late 19th century, driving the annexation of vast swathes of land.
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The Quasi-Intellectuals of Oxford have long had strange obsessions. Consider the Protocols Of The Learned Elders Of Oxford. It was in 1555 AD that they captured the Archbishop of Canterbury and a brace of bishops, gave them fair trials then burnt them at the stake. The current bunch of self-righteous twerps don't care tuppence about the Archbishop but believe passionately that Blacks are victims and that Global Warming is real. They are prepared to take Rhodes' money though. The other lot are just bad. See the Protocols Of The Learned Elders of Cambridge and know that the Lunatic Fringe is thriving. Notice that the Barbarians of North Africa are slaving to this very day. They have no qualms about making a living. Apologise? Not them.
A Powerful Lie with Friends in High Places [ 19 July 2021 ]
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Is Her Majesty the Queen a symbol of “recent colonial history” and therefore an unwelcoming one for students at an Oxford college? Was Cecil Rhodes a monster of colonialism and racism unworthy of being commemorated by a statue at the Oxford college (above) to which he left a large and famous bequest? And does it matter in either case?In one recent tempestuous Oxford week these questions were raised when students at Magdalen voted to remove the Queen’s portrait from its middle common room and 150 lecturers threatened not to teach at Oriel unless the college removed a statue of Rhodes from a prominent position over its entrance.
The Magdalen vote, though reported as “overwhelming”, seems to have been taken among fewer than twenty students. And it’s unlikely that someone who has crossed the world to study at Oxford would feel pain or surprise because his new college boasted a painting of the Sovereign. The “strike” by lecturers might have been a more serious challenge if some of the strikers, in response to public hostility, had not stressed that they would naturally be performing their main teaching obligations. Even without that concession, the headline “Small Scandal in Oxford—Not Many Taught” would hardly alarm the nation...............
The Rhodes Must Fall movement was launched at Cape Town in March 2015, and exactly one month later the statue of Rhodes was removed. By then, however, the movement had also become occasionally violent, openly racist—“One Settler, One Bullet” had appeared on its banners and websites—and much broader in its ambitions. Its targets expanded to cover statues of white liberal opponents of apartheid and “white supremacy”. Its main practical agenda became an undefined “decolonisation” of the universities. And its protests spread to other universities in South Africa and abroad.
One obvious target for RMF protests was Oriel College in Oxford because its own Rhodes statue was especially prominent. Oriel came under strong pressure first to remove it, then to stick with it, wobbled, but in early 2016 decided to hold onto the statue but attach a statement that would place Rhodes “in context”.
Who would define the context, however? That would almost certainly have been determined by RMF protesters and their academic allies if Standpoint had not published in February 2016 an article by Nigel Biggar, an Anglican priest, historian, professor of pastoral and moral theology at Oxford, and a former chaplain at Oriel. Professor Biggar’s article is a thorough and dispassionate examination of the charges against Rhodes and, more broadly, of the record of the British Empire, warts and all, in Rhodes’s time. It is not without criticism of Rhodes’s actions, especially in business, but it acquits him of the charges of racism, ill-treatment of African workers, and opposition to the democratic rights of Africans, even pioneering the politics of apartheid that occurred fifty years later. On each of these charges Rhodes turns out to be almost the opposite of the straw-devil erected by RMF. And Biggar convincingly demonstrates that the “gotcha” quote from Rhodes that seemingly convicts him of Hitler-style racism is an invented one........
As for the alleged invasion of “ancestral lands” … in what became southern Rhodesia, it wasn’t exactly an invasion and they weren’t exactly ancestral. The lands occupied by the Ndebele in the 1880s they themselves had seized by ruthless conquest two generations before, having broken off from the aggressive Zulu empire to found their own. The defeated Shona were reduced to the status of vassals, subject to indiscriminate torture and slaughter upon failure to pay tribute.............
That still leaves us with the task of defeating the absurd movement to decolonise what has either already been decolonised or was never colonised in the first place.
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These eager haters, these would be Decolonisers are just some of the Useful Idiots manipulated by the Puppet Masters, by Zionist crazies. You might recall that Quasi-Intellectuals captured the Archbishop of Canterbury, gave him a fair trial then burnt him at the stake along with a pair of bishops. That was in 1556 AD. The current lot of educated men & even women regard the Archbishop pretty much as a twerp in a frock with a silly hat. But they care passionately about Global Warming and other Lunatic Fringe obsessions. Sending a son there is distinctly a fool's errand. More and better details are at the Protocols Of The Learned Elders Of Oxford. Let us not forget that those Puppet Masters are keen on Apartheid as well as Racists running those Concentration Camps In Israel.
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Updated on Wednesday, 27 March 2024 09:34:18 +0200