Submitted 8 months ago by Amoxtli@thelemmy.club to conservative@lemm.ee
It is incongruous that he laudes the Norman invasion
“when William the Conqueror crossed the English Channel and put the finishing touches on a unification that had been evolving since the Romans abandoned the island in 410 AD.”
which put a foreign power in charge of England including permanently altering the native language with French yet condemns modern immigration because they aren’t English.
In political science, a reactionary or a reactionist is a person who holds political views that favor a return to the status quo ante—the previous political state of society—which the person believes possessed positive characteristics that are absent from contemporary society. As a descriptor term, reactionary derives from the ideological context of the left–right political spectrum. As an adjective, the word reactionary describes points of view and policies meant to restore a status quo ante.
Anti-intellectualism is a central tenet of reactionary movements. The truth literally doesn’t matter; it’s what is in their hearts that counts.
And what is in their hearts is a hatred for people who want to make the world a better place for everyone instead of just their sad, weird little tribe.
frankPodmore@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
Yeah, as someone living here, this is nonsense. We put violent rioters in prison. Punishing criminals does not violate freedom; it’s a condition for it.
Amoxtli@thelemmy.club 8 months ago
Well, let me tell you a little story I witnessed. A Christian woman named Hatun Tash uses her own Qur’an, had it stolen by a Muslim, and the cops arrested her, instead of the perpetrator. It took a Christian activist group to get the police to admit their injustice, and she was compensated for it. Being a good Christian, instead of keeping the money for herself, she gave it to the Christian activist group that cleared her name.
Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 8 months ago
How can you be an indirect witness? You either saw something or you didn’t.
No, pretty sure this is a capitalist country. Care to explain further?
Who did you hear this from? Where and when was it imposed? Because I heard they’ve got Muslamic ray guns www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIPD8qHhtVU
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If the UK were Marxist, Muslims would be banned- as would Christians.
Again, not Marxist.
SacralPlexus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
lol
frankPodmore@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
So, you’re saying there was a slight miscarriage of justice which, on appeal, was rectified? I’m sorry there was a problem but, by your own account, it was fixed.
The UK cannot be both Marxist and living under Sharia law; they’re diamatrically opposed. In fact, no where is Sharia law legally imposed, whatever you may have heard.
It is not true that you can’t be ‘proud’ of being ‘English’. There is a St. George’s Day parade in many towns and cities, including London, where it is led by Sadiq Khan, the mayor, who is both proudly Muslim and proudly English. Like most people, he sees no contradiction.
It is not true that talking about Anglo-Saxon culture is considered white supremacy. Schools and universities talk a great deal about figures from Shakespeare to Alan Turing to Millicent Fawcett (I’m picking three examples at random) all of whom were Anglo-Saxon. No one feels the need to point this out, because it would be fucking weird, but like all cultures everywhere, we mostly talk about people from our own culture. The idea this is banned or frowned upon is imaginary.