BBC News - David Starkey criticised over slavery comments
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53262668
He always was a complete and utter arsehole
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BBC News - David Starkey criticised over slavery comments
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53262668
He always was a complete and utter arsehole
Another arsehole who can't refuse a bit of exposure on any platform that'll have him, such is his blowhard narcissism, he's in the 'tosser' box with the Hitchens brothers-pair of snide wankers.
I notice nobody has referred to Keir Starmer's comments the other day. He did apologise the next day but he still said it. Look it up. Does anyone care what Starkey says as he's renowned for making inappropriate comments.
He's a very intelligent man and surprised he's come out with crap like that. It's a purely racist comment from Starkey who I've quite liked watching on QT purely because he whips it up but this is too far.
Even if he said you can't define it as genocide as the traders didn't intend to kill the slaves then that's a pretty abhorrent comment and missing the mark completely but could be somewhat debated. What DS has said is just showing his prejudices.
Why is this toe-rag given so much air time? Never understood it. There are plenty of historians around. The reactionary old racist needs to be forgotten about.
If it's what I think he's on about, Starmer called the BLM movement "a moment" and then apologised saying he should have made it clearer he meant "a moment in time"
Comparing that with Starkey is pretty spectacular whataboutery
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53267989
Starmer dismissed the idea of "defund the police" which I can understand, that would be a corbyn-esque noose that the right wing press would use to hang him for years. Also I don't think the police and prison system in this country is as financially leveraged as the states, but the underlying principles of preventing the conditions that lead to crime and encouraging rehabilitation etc should be bread and butter to a labour leader.
He also said BLM was a moment, which annoyed some, an suggested it was in sympathy with the movement in the states, which some felt was dismissive of the prejudices faced by UK minorities.
Can we actually be clear what "Genocide" is.
It is the 'deliberate' killing of a large group of people of a national or ethnic group.......
Much as what the slavers did was abhorrent they in no way attempted genocide. In fact it was completely contrary to their intent, which was clearly to make money from trafficking able bodies people who could be made to work.
Genocide would have robbed them of their purpose.
I have been to two lectures by David Starkey in the past 10 years. He has been the patron of the Friends Of Sheffield Manor Lodge - the local history group that looks after the semi-ruined Manor Castle & Lodge north of Sheffield centre (where Mary Queen Of Scots was held for years) on the edge of the Manor council estate. He does an annual free lecture that is a fundraiser for the group.
Both times he has been entertaining, provocative, pompous and very pleased with himself - but always aware of his audience too, and careful not to really antagonise. He did revel in his identity - camp, monarchist, Tory, intellectual and public figure - the opposite of most of the audience, refusing to conform to what he (falsely) presented as a monolithic liberal culture amongst his fellow historians. He was also anti-Brexit and described Henry 8th as the first Brexiteer for his break with Rome. A pantomime villain most of the time.
This time he has forgotten to put on the act, and let his real views come through unedited. Ironic that he speared himself on a right wing Brexit site. He was dumped as patron of the Friends of Manor Lodge early this afternoon.
Dropped by his publisher, and either resigning from or removed from a few 'honorary' positions.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/...-harpercollins
Good to see the way public attitudes have changed from 2011 - when his racist comments were mostly tolerated.