Woke Left Wastes No Time Attacking the “Coloniser” Queen in the New York Times, New York Magazine and the Atlantic
The woke Left is not known for letting a good opportunity to go to waste – and the death of our 96 year-old monarch is no exception. Across the American mainstream media, liberal opinion writers have been giving their verdict on Queen Elizabeth II’s 70-year rein. MailOnline has more.
The ridicule of her reign was led by Tirhakah Love, senior newsletter writer for New York magazine.
“For 96 years, that coloniser has been sucking up the Earth’s resources,” he wrote in his Thursday evening newsletter.
He added: “You can’t be a literal oppressor and not expect the people you’ve oppressed not to rejoice on news of your death.”
A “literal oppressor”? It doesn’t sound like Mr Love has a secure grasp of the concept of a constitutional monarchy. Does he think the Queen is ‘literally’ in charge of the U.K. Government?
In the New York Times, Maya Jasanoff, a history professor at Harvard University, where she focuses on the history of Britain and the British Empire, said it was wrong to “romanticise” her reign.
“The queen helped obscure a bloody history of decolonisation whose proportions and legacies have yet to be adequately acknowledged,” she wrote.
Jasanoff highlights repression in Malaya, Kenya, Yemen, Cyprus and Ireland.
“We may never learn what the queen did or didn’t know about the crimes committed in her name,” she said.
“Those who heralded a second Elizabethan age hoped Elizabeth II would sustain British greatness; instead, it was the era of the empire’s implosion.”
A “bloody history of decolonisation”? So would Professor Jasonoff have preferred it if Britain had retained its colonies instead? And what’s she on about when it comes to Ireland? What ‘crimes’ were committed in the Queen’s name in Ireland? It’s been independent since 1937, 16 years before the Queen ascended to the throne.
A writer for the Atlantic magazine, Jemele Hill, also chimed in on her Twitter account, saying journalists had a duty to cover what she called the “devastating” impacts of Elizabeth’s reign.
“Journalists are tasked with putting legacies into full context, so it is entirely appropriate to examine the queen and her role in the devastating impact of continued colonialism,” Hill wrote.
Bizarrely, as these woke liberals were wringing their hands about the “devastating” impact of the Queen’s rein, tributes from Commonwealth leaders and the leaders of former British colonies came pouring in.
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“The queen helped obscure a bloody history of decolonisation whose proportions and legacies have yet to be adequately acknowledged,” she wrote.”
Damned if we do and damned if we don’t.
Right, let’s bring back conscription, mobilise the armed forces and get colonising again. Some of these colonials just don’t appreciate what they’ve lost.
Ungrateful barstewards.
They’re religious cultists (in this case Marxists) incapable of rational, objective inquiry. And, on a base level, they simply like being mean when they can see a lot of people are happy or sad. Anger is the only emotion most sociopaths are capable of and they are thus driven to try to spoil things in any way possible.
The empire was built with the help of professional mercenaries who voluntarily picked this job. Conscription was only ever introduced to get the necessary manpower to overwhelm Germany by putting two soldiers on each square inch of it. Even this needed concerted global action and the active involvment of the USA who was thus transformed from a notoriously indebted rural backwater to the world’s foremost industrial power by the influx fo English (and French) money, ultimatively enabling New York based champagne socialists who inherited this ill-acquired wealth to lecture their very benefactors on proper conduct in external and internal affairs.
Sometimes, the long-term consequences of We must crush our neighbours!
only manifest themselves once it becomes clear that all the alien guys from the next village hired to help with that do not plan to ever really move back there.
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The USA went from being the largest debtor of the world to being its largest creditor because the British and French governments borrowed enormous sums of money from American banks to buy huge numbers of US-manufactured artillery shells (and other war materials) during world war one. In what could be called a classic hostile takeover manoeuver, Germany was then asset-stripped to the bone and saddled with the complete British and French war debt it was supposed to repay incrementally until 1988 (in reality, the FRG was repaying this debt until 2010). This and the communist revolution in Germany in 1918 which led to the German capitulation were also the proximate causes for the second world war.
There have always been mean people. I expect there were rancid old slatterns and winos in pubs slagging off Queen Victoria when she died. The modern ‘academics’ and activist writers who masquerade as journalists are really the modern equivalent and deserve the same contempt.
Completely agree. Anybody who would feel justified in “rejoicing” in an extremely popular monarch’s death is only proving themselves as an absolute unhinged sicko. But presumably they will applaud ruddy-faced Charlie ‘sausage fingers’ because he is part of the whole climate change/WEF crew. God only knows what the UK can expect in the ensuing reign of Charles. I hope the Queen gave him some sage advice and that he heeds it, but I’m not holding my breath.
Yep. In the UK in the last few days there has been a large scale reorganisation, which is not finished yet. New PM, different Ministers, resignation of the Civil Service top dog in the Treasury (probably didn’t like the new Chancellor?), and now a new King on top. With any luck, the parliamentarians will move to curtail the reach of monarchy a bit. One of the advantages of not having a written constitution, after all. Interesting times.
Refer back to the links I posted in today’s news about the Constitution & how parliament has claimed that it is Sovereign when it is we, the people who are Sovereign.
We need to spread the message that what we have been taught is a lie.
https://iaindavis.com/the-british-constitution-deception-part-1/
https://iaindavis.com/the-british-constitution-deception-part-2/
https://iaindavis.com/long-live-democracy/
One of the few occasions that I’m in agreement with you. I’m not a monarchist at all, but she did appear to be a woman who sacrificed her very existence to deliver a service to her country. The last of a kind; Charles is not of the same mould. We’ll see, but I don’t see anything positive coming from a change of the guard – quite the opposite in fact.
I agree they deserve contempt. I also agree they are mean. But I disagree that are “the modern equivalent”. The woke left is a global political movement that is hell bent on screwing up my life, and in recent years is having some success in that endeavour. They are not harmless curmudgeons. The harm they do is not in their meanness but in their influence over public and private life, governments, the law etc.
When.. King Charles has guilt-tripped our officials into eradicating cheap and affordable energy and we’re cutting down local trees to keep warm and throwing our faeces out the window of old, will the NYT lay a more appropriate accusation of “oppressor” on his shoulders? Somehow I doubt it. They’ll prob still be hung up on colonial crimes with him being of the same cloth. Any admittance of their cheerleading our regression back to the dark ages would be an own goal wouldn’t it. Do these people actually know what they sound like – are they just dumb or are they simply bad actors? I’m still of two minds.
It’s really time to decolonise the eastern seabord of Northern America. Let these people put their money were their mouth is. And then come back to lecture others provided the found a single place on this planet where they’re actually welcome. As they’re concinved that Antartica will become ice-free in the not too distant future, wouldn’t this be a nice opportunity to organize a whole, emerging continent in the proper way? We’d all gladly copy their achievments provide they actually materialize.
“It’s really time to decolonise the eastern seabord of Northern America. “
Lol. They should repatriate themselves to where their ancestors came from, unless they are from Europe in which case we don’t want them back. I would love to see these twits given masses of land somewhere with natural resources and infrastructure, start on a level playing field with the rest of us, and try to maintain an advanced industrialised civilisation run and staffed by woke idiots, and see how long it would take for them to descend into third world levels or abandon their stupid ideas.
My only reaction to those critical words is that probably not a whole lot of thought went into them.
Probably none at all. That’s more of a case of Something happened in England. Let’s repeat all the stuff we always write about it one more time. That’s really just piss-poor journalism, combined with a total lack of human decency.
Woke, thin skin stretched over bile/
Our cherished Queen oversaw the entire dismantling of the Empire, for the first time in history, the only Empire to choose to cancel itself. The ‘oppressed people’ to whom we returned the freedom of self determination, chose to be part of the greater Commonwealth, and retain the Queen as their Head of State. I don’t see that with former colonies of France, Belgium, Germany or The Netherlands. As an example, when France ‘freed’ Haiti, they did so for a sum of money that Haiti was still repaying 100 years later.
In the light of this, I have carefully considered the work of these so called journalists, and would like to add my hearty ‘fuck you’ to them. They are nothing but second rate revisionists for ideologies based in fantasy and ugly ignorance.
Germany didn’t have any colonies after WWI.
Fair enough. Carved up and given to the allies in the Treaty of Versailles. I don’t think that changes the essence of the point I am making. There is a profound ignorance of ‘colonial times’ which certain persons try to transcribe historical events into a modern context with twists and corruptions to make their ideological points.
Whilst a monarchist, we should be realistic about her time as monarch and supreme governor of the Church of England. In some ways this period has been disastrous, with the deaths of some nine million children in Britain (under legislation that she signed off), and a disastrous period of lockdown and human rights abuses, whilst the C of E has seen a precipitous drop in numbers with Christians apparently becoming a minority in the UK for the first time, and divisions with other Christian communities exacerbated. Whether she could have changed any of this is another matter, but the unprecedented calamities of her time as queen should not be glossed over.
The so-called Church of England is just another state institution captured by the wokester mob and pushing the same woke agenda. Insofar the bible goes, male – male intercourse is against the will of God. On the grounds that man is naturally sinful, the church can accept that it exists, but it remains a sin. Hence, the church can’t promote it and stay a Christian organization. Whether or not this should be regarded as a sin is – of course – open to discussion. But not for people who claim to be Christians.
Recently, the pride spectacle happened in Reading and the minster of St Mary the Virgin sported all the assorted flags and slogans. Hence, this is not a Christian church, just a historic building which used to be one.