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    Default The British Library Adds George Orwell, Byron, and More to Dubious List of Shame

    I am serious when I say I'm glad I'm old enough that I won't live long under these horrible SJW times.

    The British Library has added George Orwell, Lord Bryon, Ted Hughes, and others to a list of shame for cultural figures with supposed links to slavery.
    George Orwell, real name Eric Arthur Blair, is perhaps most famous for his books Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, was an anti-imperialist and a socialist — although not one who was afraid to call our the wrongdoings of contemporary communist regimes and their apologists — but the British Library saw fit to add him to its shame list because he had a great-grandfather who owned slaves in the Caribbean.


    His fortune was long gone by the time Orwell, the son of a sub-deputy opium agent in British India, was born, however, according to the Telegraph, citing the Orwell Society.
    The publicly-funded national library, the largest in the world, explained the list by saying that “Some items now at the British Library, previously owned by particular named figures cited on these pages, are associated with wealth obtained from enslaved people or through colonial violence,” and that “Curators in the Printed Heritage Collections team have undertaken some research to identify these, as part of ongoing work to interpret and document the provenance and history of the printed collections under our care.”
    It began the work after settings itself the goal of becoming an “actively anti-racist organisation” in response to ongoing disorder related to the Black Lives Matter movement.


    Some of the figures on the same list had links to slavery and imperialism even more dubious than Orwell’s, for example the poet Ted Hughes, born in 1930, who was added because his ancestor Nicholas Ferrar, born in 1592, had been involved in settling the first British colonies in North America hundreds of years before his birth.
    “It’s ridiculous to tar Hughes with a slave trade connection. And it’s not a helpful way to think about writers,” commented Sir Jonathan Bate, Hughes’s biographer.

    "Why on earth would you judge the quality of an artist’s work on the basis of distant ancestors?” he asked.

    Lord Byron, similar to Orwell, was added to the list because of a slave-owning great-grandfather, as well as a slave-owning uncle by marriage.
    Oscar Wilde was added because of his uncle’s links to slavery, although the British Library conceded there was no evidence Wilde benefited from any of the wealth this generated in its documents.
    The library’s leadership is deeply invested in many aspects of “woke” ideology, having previously urged staff to support the Black Lives Matter movement and controversial Labour politician Diane Abbott, while Chief Librarian Liz Jolly has claimed that “racism is a creation of white people.”
    Many of the books available at the British Library documenting the history of slavery and imperialism on the part of non-white polities would suggest this is not a factual statement.

    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/202...us-list-shame/

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    Quote Originally Posted by SassyLady View Post
    I am serious when I say I'm glad I'm old enough that I won't live long under these horrible SJW times.
    I feel so much dumber for having read that. Egads, the world has gone nuts!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Kathianne View Post
    I feel so much dumber for having read that. Egads, the world has gone nuts!
    Gives me a sick feeling in the pit if my stomach and makes my chest hurt from sadness. WTH!
    If the freedom of speech is taken away
    then dumb and silent we may be led,
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    A glaring example of how ignorance and blindness that is fostered by the leftists and those that want darkness to rule over the masses, imho.
    But Byron-
    God forbid such sheer and totally utter idiocy...-
    I will stop now before my anger truly gets the best of me.. those leftist/ ignorant asses/buffoons..-Tyr
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    This is absurd. Dare we hope the pendulum is so out of whack that it will swing back to the middle, at least?
    After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box - Author unknown

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    Quote Originally Posted by Abbey View Post
    This is absurd. Dare we hope the pendulum is so out of whack that it will swing back to the middle, at least?
    Sad reality- it never swings far enough back to compensate for the destruction/loss that was first caused.
    As too often the damage done is not reparable.
    And that is the advantage to the destructive actions these vermin set in place..
    Even if later corrected the damage is already done.
    Tis also why -they-- are so sure they will eventually triumph..
    Evil never rests, never stops and must be adamantly and faithfully opposed.
    These people are not just ignorant--
    a great many of them are truly evil and seek to increase darkness, misery and destruction.-Tyr
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