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Re: Statue decolonization
« Reply #60 on: June 09, 2021, 04:49:43 am »
We have reached the Windsors!

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/queen-elizabeth-iis-portrait-pulled-010837144.html

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Britain's conservatives in government and the media got their knickers in a twist Tuesday after reports emerged that graduate students at Magdalen College at Oxford removed a 1952 photo portrait of Queen Elizabeth II from a common room as an unwelcome symbol of "recent colonial history."

According to Guido Fawkes, the rightwing website published by political blogger Paul Staines, who broke the news, a committee of students, many of them international students, voted by a substantial majority to take the portrait down from the Middle Common Room wall, and to explore replacing it with “art by or of other influential and inspirational people.”
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"Queen becomes latest victim of cancel culture," yelped the headline in The Telegraph, a favorite broadsheet of the Tories.

"How dare they! Oxford students cancel our queen!" shouted The Daily Express.

"Absurd," sputtered Gavin Williamson, the member of Parliament who serves as education secretary in the Conservative government of Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

On Twitter, the outrage was practically palpable. Samantha Smith, described in her Twitter bio as a contributor to The Spectator, the conservative political magazine, and to the New York Times, pointed out, correctly, that the widely admired 95-year-old queen pioneered anti-racism during the era of widespread segregation and apartheid.

One of her most important roles is head of the Commonwealth of nations, most of them former British colonies – and most with populations made up of people of color.

"Imagine trying to cancel the reigning monarch," Smith wrote.

We did:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/'royal'-family-hate-thread/

And it is now happening, albeit initially on a small scale. Hopefully this will eventually lead to more countries dropping Elizabeth as head of state.

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As in the United States, Britain is grappling with its history – including hundreds of years as a colonial and slave-trading power and the connection of both to the monarchy over the centuries. The difference is the Brits have hundreds of years more history to reckon with than the Yanks.

Yes, and Americans should try to actively blame Britain (or France, if appropriate) for all the pre-Revolution evils on US soil.