https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/12/23/in-2024-the-war-on-britains-past-became-unhinged/
Western cultural institutions have been waging a war on the past for several years now. They have turned national histories into sources of shame, damned key works in the Western canon as racist and pulled down historical monuments. 2024 has been no exception.
Over the course of the past 12 months, we’ve seen schools, universities and the media all engaged in rewriting, demonising and cancelling the legacy of Western civilisation.
Britain’s schools have also been a key battleground this year. Activist educators have attempted to make children ashamed of their society’s past. Take the guidance offered by The Key, an education-services company, on how to make the history curriculum ‘anti-racist’. It says that the British Empire should be taught to pupils just as Nazi Germany is taught to them – that is, as the history of a genocidal power committing atrocities. This isn’t an attempt to enlarge children’s understanding of the British Empire, warts and all. This is an attempt to stoke shame. Indeed, the aim of so many of these projects is to instill in people a sense of guilt, as if they somehow bear responsibility for the actions of their distant ancestors. This has reached absurd proportions when it comes to the transatlantic slave trade.
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