James Fitzjames Stephen 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

"Marxist" who wants to shoot me for stating the fact that the Falklands predate Argentina, were never taken from Argentina and that the local population deserve to be respected. Notably the only people agreeing with this idiot are far-right Argentinian imperialists Read a book

It's not the Royal Navy any more, by the way - it's the "U.K. Royal Navy", per their own website name in Google search results.

I don’t support reparations for the slave trade, but saying people back them because of a “failure of integration” is just stupid. It doesn’t hold up. Most mixed race people in this country are born to black Caribbean men and white women. On almost every measurable metric, black Caribbeans are among the most integrated groups in the UK. Their outcomes are broadly similar to the white British majority, and in many cases other groups outperform them. So the idea that support for reparations reflects a lack of integration just doesn’t stack. Views on reparations follow history. If you’re of Caribbean heritage, even if your family’s been here for generations, the legacy of slavery and colonialism is baked into your identity. You’re reminded of it every time you read your own name. Of course that shapes how people see the issue. Where I take a different view is on how responsibility gets framed. The transatlantic slave trade involved multiple actors, including African intermediaries as well as European powers. If the argument is about accountability, it should at least be applied consistently rather than selectively. If you’re from a former colonial power, you’re far less likely to feel that same weight. That’s not about integration, it’s about perspective. Would Daniel Hannan say British Greeks who support returning the Elgin Marbles “haven’t integrated”? Obviously not. It’s a completely daft standard. I’m sorry to say it, because usually we sing from the same hymn sheet, but what Daniel Hannan has said here is just stupid. This is basic stuff.

A student today at my elite university admitted to me today that she took a class so she could work on reading for more than 20 minutes at a time. She can't read. She mainly skims and summarizes, she says and still gets A's. This student is, by professional standards, illiterate. Gonna have high GPA when she graduates. This conversation was had after 6 of 22 students dropped my course because the maximum reading per week in one week was over 100 pages. What people aren't grasping is that this is literally *dangerous*. These people are going to be come doctors, engineers, etc. They are - by any metric - vastly less capable than prior generations. These effects are cumulative over a lifetime. This grade inflation is part of the problem, but not even close to the entirety. And the problem obviously starts in K-12. Students don't know history because, you can't actually become historically literate on the advice of 'never assign more than 30 pages a week'. You can't develop any of the skills that came with literacy. This is, quite honestly, a civilizational catastrophe.

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May I take this opportunity to congratulate all the anti-wokers for winning their precious little culture war. Well done, guys, hope the liberal tears were worth it.