Great issue, Glenn! I agree with what you say, and have promoted such ideas myself, though in a different way, in my book The Voice from the Back Row: Off the Bandwagon; I intend to be among the resisters and am looking for people in my area who feel the same way. There are so many ways in which attempts to suppress us, our thinking, o…
Great issue, Glenn! I agree with what you say, and have promoted such ideas myself, though in a different way, in my book The Voice from the Back Row: Off the Bandwagon; I intend to be among the resisters and am looking for people in my area who feel the same way. There are so many ways in which attempts to suppress us, our thinking, our decisions, our ability to take care of ourselves exists.
I do take exception, though, to the specific quote you have used. Winston Churchill is great, but the idea that it is the British who are the bulwarks of freedom is a bit specious. Yes, they are very courageous and were formidable resisters of Hitler, They were also international colonizers (who Ghandi, one of the freedom fighters in your video, resisted) and their policies have resulted in worldwide divisions under the theory that people divided against each other will not bother their former colonizers (British). Note the India/Pakistan conflicts and the Israel/Palestine conflicts, which do not have to be but serve as distractions away from their former overlords. In addition, the British are not exactly ethnically inclusive either. They are mostly northern European (including the Viking heritage); that ethnicity is more representative of white privilege (nothing wrong with white people, just privilege) than of any kind of global justice or inclusiveness or freedom. So, Churchill, great, and British, honor them for their courage and service, but the idea that they (only) are the representatives of freedom - questionable. Elizabeth
Thanks Elizabeth. That's not how I read the quote. He said, "It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe...", so it was Britain and the rest of humanity who had the heart of freedom. In other words, we all resisted evil.
Great issue, Glenn! I agree with what you say, and have promoted such ideas myself, though in a different way, in my book The Voice from the Back Row: Off the Bandwagon; I intend to be among the resisters and am looking for people in my area who feel the same way. There are so many ways in which attempts to suppress us, our thinking, our decisions, our ability to take care of ourselves exists.
I do take exception, though, to the specific quote you have used. Winston Churchill is great, but the idea that it is the British who are the bulwarks of freedom is a bit specious. Yes, they are very courageous and were formidable resisters of Hitler, They were also international colonizers (who Ghandi, one of the freedom fighters in your video, resisted) and their policies have resulted in worldwide divisions under the theory that people divided against each other will not bother their former colonizers (British). Note the India/Pakistan conflicts and the Israel/Palestine conflicts, which do not have to be but serve as distractions away from their former overlords. In addition, the British are not exactly ethnically inclusive either. They are mostly northern European (including the Viking heritage); that ethnicity is more representative of white privilege (nothing wrong with white people, just privilege) than of any kind of global justice or inclusiveness or freedom. So, Churchill, great, and British, honor them for their courage and service, but the idea that they (only) are the representatives of freedom - questionable. Elizabeth
Thanks Elizabeth. That's not how I read the quote. He said, "It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe...", so it was Britain and the rest of humanity who had the heart of freedom. In other words, we all resisted evil.