Posted on 02/04/2020 11:10:23 AM PST by nickcarraway
An academic has hit out at the ‘psychosis of whiteness’ after saying the British Empire did more damage than the Nazis.
Birmingham City University’s Dr Kehinde Andrews appeared on Good Morning Britain on Monday to discuss the renaming of the MBE and OBE.
He appeared alongside Breakin’ Convention founder Jonzi D, a dancer and spoken word artist, who turned down an MBE for its connection to the British Empire and the empire’s history of slavery. Jonzi D said: ‘I didn’t want the label of ‘Member of the British Empire’ on my chest.’
Piers Morgan then challenged the panel on whether they accepted the empire ‘wasn’t all bad’. Journalist Toby Young said the empire abolished slavery, which Dr Andrews said was ‘not true’.
The professor of black studies said: ‘The way we remember this history is so bad, that we actually think we can find comfort in this system which killed tens of millions, probably hundreds of millions of people, rape, murder, torture, famine. ‘Whiteness is a psychosis – you can’t have a reasonable explanation.’
Both Piers and Susanna Reid challenged the professor on his use of the word ‘psychosis’ and accused the professor of racism. Dr Andrews told the programme: ‘Whiteness is not just for white people, there are black people, Asian people, who also purport the psychosis of whiteness. It’s about the idea. ‘It’s about the fact that in the 21st century, 60% of British people believe that empire was a force for good.
‘That’s like saying the Nazis built motorways, so we should celebrate them. It’s literally an irrational view.’
He added: ‘The British Empire did far more harm for the world for a far more sustained period of time. It lasted for like 300 years.’ The professor went on to say that concentration camps were first trialled in the British Empire and that ‘the logic of race, that this is something you can kill, and rape, and murder for’ was ‘heavily trialled’ in the British Empire.
Furious viewers slammed the ‘anti-white’ academic online before he took to Twitter to back up his claim. Taking to his social media page, he posted a grab of author Carol Anderson’s book White Rage and wrote: ‘Yes, Whiteness is a psychosis.
Much respect to @ProfCAnderson for the excellent White Rage. First stop on my reading our for the #PsychosisOfWhiteness book.’ He later tweeted: ‘The British Empire lasted far longer, did more damage and in many ways, paved the way for the Nazi’s and their genocidal ideology. ‘We do no favours to the victims of the Holocaust by pretending otherwise. If we forget the past we are likely to repeat it.’
Yeah, those areas have done so much better without the Brits.
Ping
Western universities are EXTREMELY overpriced indoctrination centers. They are sanctuaries for socialist professors and administrators.
Way past time for a new paradigm for learning.
“I’m sure glad my grand-daddy got on that boat!” — Muhammad Ali upon returning from Zimbabwe.
“Professor of Black Studies”
No bias here...
Great Britain, for better or worse, brought their brand of civilization to corners on the world which had no standard to compare to it. Both India and China were literally dragged from their ancient cultures into the modern world, and a light was shined into Central Africa that was still largely in the Stone Age. An era of taming nature and building from the resources at hand ushered in the Industrial Age, and the fundamentals of capitalism followed the Union Jack everywhere. A semi-isolated island country exerted power over the world that all the previous kings and military rulers previous could not have grasped, let along maintain the control that the British Crown held over the world for literally centuries, before the Empire turned upon itself and was consumed by factions and territorial demands from people who had for centuries only managed to live at a subsistence level.
Give the British their due. They may not have invented civilization, but they certainly raised it to an art form unique in all the world history.
the hellholes of the earth have what color in common?
Pffttt!!
So much damage that the language, many of the customs, and the political systems of the British were adopted by a massively diverse group of nations, not to mention a number of them recognize the British monarch as theirs to this day.
Do these newsie types not recognize when a guest is clearly mentally ill, and shouldn’t be taken seriously?
Do they not do at least some research before they invite these people to be on the air?
Compare the former British colonies in world against the colonies of other European empires and the British ones are doing far better as a whole.
“Great Britain, for better or worse, brought their brand of civilization to corners on the world which had no standard to compare to it.”
Yes, and we could also say that Hitler’s enormous power, ability to attract a following, and barbarity prove nothing about the ‘white’ race as a whole.
Didn’t some nonwhite cultures eat people?
Unfortunately for Africans, Dunlop created the pneumatic rubber tire. So the demand for rubber was high.
Leopold enslaved blacks to harvest rubber. When they met their quota, an arm was amputated.
Black mothers, to avoid dealing with the white devils, amputated an arm of new born boys.
To counter this, Leopold changed it to genitals.
Stanley stated he saw bushels upon bushels of male genitilia.
Belgium peacekeepers paid the price for Leopold's butchery in Rwanda during the Hutu/Tutsi war.
That thing about concentration camps is a reference to the Boer war in South Africa IIRC.
The British likened themselves to the Romans.
Leopold!
Alright, but apart from that, what have the British EVER done for us?
“Spoken word artist”?
Translation - Bullschiffter.
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