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Gendered words ban: US city's code replaces โ€˜manpowerโ€™ with โ€˜human effortโ€™ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49036816

What next renaming He-man to They-man?

Oh god

BBCโ€™s War of the Worlds is so fucking woke for no reason: British Empire bad, Brown people good

2019-12-04 08:01:20 UTC [Athens #palaestra_debates]  

BBCโ€™s War of the Worlds is so fucking woke, I donโ€™t want anti-Imperial messages in my fiction about Martians invading Southern England

โ€œBritish Empire bad, Brown people goodโ€

2019-12-04 08:19:13 UTC [Athens #palaestra_debates]  

Ofcourse there were bad things about the Empire I wasnโ€™t staying that there wasnโ€™t, but the preachy, patronising attitude shouldnโ€™t have had a place in a fiction about Martians invading Edwardian England

Especially when the character stating this wokeness was a rich white girl who grew up in British India

2019-12-04 08:44:49 UTC [Athens #palaestra_debates]  

What I am saying is when people decide to be anti-Imperial they always use โ€œweโ€ like โ€œWe were badโ€ last time I checked my working class ancestors were put to work in factories at young ages, forced to work for barely anything in deadly conditions, but somehow due to the virtue of the melanin in my skin I somehow have privilege

Every sperm is sacred

Every sperm is good

Noone:

Literally Noone:

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2019-12-25 22:59:08 UTC [Athens #other_politics]  

Noone:

Literally Noone:

Youtube Recommendations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul0Mh-8kmXQ

In 1785, English poet William Cowper wrote:

"We have no slaves at home โ€“ Then why abroad?
Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs
Receive our air, that moment they are free.
They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud.
And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then,
And let it circulate through every vein."

2020-02-25 12:00:33 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

Fun fact: The Abolition of Slavery movement in the UK during the 18th and 19th centuries produced some great patriotism

In 1785, English poet William Cowper wrote:

"We have no slaves at home โ€“ Then why abroad?
Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs
Receive our air, that moment they are free.
They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud.
And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then,
And let it circulate through every vein."

2020-02-25 12:05:57 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

We never had many black slaves in the UK anyway

2020-02-25 12:06:48 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

Since why have to feed, clothe and provide shelter for a slave when you can just pay a Working Class peasant a pittance for the same work

2020-02-25 12:07:15 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

I'm talking more about in the 18th and 19th centuries

2020-02-25 12:08:48 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

Since it was cheaper to just get a Working Class person to do the work than get a slave

2020-02-25 12:09:04 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

Since as I said, you have to feed, clothe and provide shelter for said slave

2020-02-25 12:09:14 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

While you could just pay a pittance to the Working class

2020-02-25 12:10:15 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

This is why I don't like SJWs that talk about racism in this country and how the British Empire was racist

2020-02-25 12:10:53 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

Yeah sure, it was during the early period, but there were alot worse, Belgium killed 10 million in a few years, 10 million died over a period of CENTURIES for the British

2020-02-25 12:12:07 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

What about the Abolition of slavery?

2020-02-25 12:12:13 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

and the Blockade of Africa?

2020-02-25 12:12:38 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

Where the British and Americans sent a squadron each to capture slaver ships and free black slaves

2020-02-25 12:13:31 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

Already my favourite quote:

"We have no slaves at home โ€“ Then why abroad?
Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs
Receive our air, that moment they are free.
They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud.
And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then,
And let it circulate through every vein."

2020-02-25 12:14:10 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

True

2020-02-25 12:14:14 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

Since nowadays

2020-02-25 12:14:20 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

Africa is already fucking bringing it back

2020-02-25 12:14:38 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

Trading little girls in Nigeria

2020-02-25 12:14:49 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

Do we have to go in and stop it again?

2020-02-25 12:15:23 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

Maybe some of these countries were better administered under a British colonial governor

2020-02-25 12:15:26 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

o.O

2020-02-25 12:16:52 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

I didn't say it wasn't racist, theres always racism, but the government actively was against slavery

2020-02-25 12:17:06 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

Thats pretty damn brave for a world of empires that do the exact opposite

2020-02-25 12:17:29 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

Even if the UK was the most powerful empire

2020-02-25 12:17:42 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

Britain took the moral high ground

2020-02-25 12:18:04 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

actively policed the slave trade and won

2020-02-25 12:18:39 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

One British ship (Which was actually a captured Brazilian slave ship) captured more than 7 slave ships and freed hundreds of slaves

2020-02-25 12:19:32 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

Ofcourse, but theres always stains in imperial records

2020-02-25 12:19:57 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

But the fact is that Britain banned it first and policed it

2020-02-25 12:20:22 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

It could've just banned it and not policed it

2020-02-25 12:20:35 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

But the fact Britain actively with the US blockaded Africa

2020-02-25 12:21:00 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

Actually

2020-02-25 12:21:11 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

Anti-slavery movement in the UK came about during the Enlightenment

2020-02-25 12:21:32 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

As more people in high places realised that that the practice was barbaric

2020-02-25 12:22:41 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

"The Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade was formed in 1787 by a group of Evangelical English Protestants allied with Quakers, to unite in their shared opposition to slavery and the slave trade. The Quakers had long viewed slavery as immoral, a blight upon humanity. By 1807 the abolitionist groups had a very sizable faction of like-minded members in the British Parliament. At their height they controlled 35โ€“40 seats. Known as the "Saints", the alliance was led by the best known of the anti-slave trade campaigners, William Wilberforce, who had taken on the cause of abolition in 1787 after having read the evidence that Thomas Clarkson had amassed against the trade. These dedicated Parliamentarians had access to the legal draughtsmanship of James Stephen, Wilberforce's brother-in-law. They often saw their personal battle against slavery as a divinely ordained crusade. On Sunday, 28 October 1787, Wilberforce wrote in his diary: "God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners."

2020-02-25 12:24:57 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

๐Ÿค”

2020-02-25 12:25:47 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

"The slave trade had been banned in England in 1102. In a 1569 court case involving Cartwright, who had bought a slave from Russia, the court ruled that English law could not recognise slavery, as it was never established officially. This ruling was overshadowed by later developments. It was upheld in 1700 by Lord Chief Justice Sir John Holt when he ruled that "As soon as a man sets foot on English ground he is free"."

2020-02-25 12:26:05 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

Yeah

2020-02-25 12:30:07 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

In his 1776 A Dissertation on the *Duty of Mercy and Sin of Cruelty to Brute Animals*, the clergyman Humphry Primatt wrote, "the white man (notwithstanding the barbarity of custom and prejudice), can have no right, by virtue of his colour, to enslave and tyrannize over a black man."

2020-02-25 12:59:54 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

Maggie was fine tbf

2020-02-25 13:00:57 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

But I can see Pritti Patel becoming PM after Borisโ€™ terms

2020-02-25 13:01:33 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

Right now I am just glad we have Prime Minister Johnson and not Prime Minister Corbyn

2020-02-25 13:02:20 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

Corbyn: Letโ€™s run on a campaign of Anti-Britishness

Boris: Letโ€™s actually care about the countryโ€™s choice

2020-02-25 13:03:31 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

I was born in London (Moved to Kent when I was 5 back in โ€˜05) so I can call myself a true Londoner (Not the fake Londoners who werenโ€™t even fucking born there and have been there for 2 months)

2020-02-25 13:05:29 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

(Plus I was also born in 1999 Kek)

2020-02-25 13:06:35 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

My opinions are very much rooted in patriotism, as I have read a lot of history and believe that much of what our country has done through centuries shaped the modern democratic world

2020-02-25 13:07:14 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

Maybe thatโ€™s because Iโ€™m not a middle class cunt who decides โ€œeMpIrE bAdโ€

2020-02-25 13:07:40 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

Good olโ€™ working class

2020-02-25 13:08:41 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

Well there is when you use your wealth to flout positions and authority in opposition to the majority

2020-02-25 13:08:52 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

E.g. Brexit remainiacs

2020-02-25 13:10:13 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

True, but it seems itโ€™s all the middle class nowadays

2020-02-25 13:10:31 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

They hold the speaking power in the news

2020-02-25 13:11:23 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

When have they ever brought working class leavers that werenโ€™t straw men like in that Channel 4 pub clip during Brexit day?

2020-02-25 13:42:07 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

Never heard of boojie

2020-02-25 13:52:12 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

Well

2020-02-25 14:13:46 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

Why would anyone buy the NHS

2020-02-25 14:14:08 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

Literally retards who want to go broke would buy the NHS

2020-02-25 14:15:07 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

The logic is anti-Tory

2020-02-25 14:15:49 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

I never heard Maggie say that British Gas was not for sale

2020-02-25 14:16:22 UTC [Athens #uk_politics]  

Hey guys, the Argies are at it again

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