Heh.
David Starkey is a historian (speciality: Tudor Britain), TV presenter and a waspish old queen. He was once described as “rudest man in Britain”. He’s another one that made the journey from left to right and he’s generally worth listening to.
He’s been cancelled more times than you’ve had TV dinners (are there still TV dinners?). Like:
Starkey suggested that people should not “go on about” slavery because it had been abolished in 1833 and that “slavery was not genocide, otherwise there wouldn’t be so many damn blacks in Africa or in Britain would there? An awful lot of them survived”.
And:
Starkey said that “white culture” is under threat from the Black Lives Matter movement and proponents of critical race theory who are “not what they pretend to be” and who he described are attempting to destroy “the entire legitimacy of the Western cultural tradition”. He stated that said conservatives had to defend the “uniqueness of the Anglo-American tradition” against “barbarians”.
He disputed the “idea that they are there to defend black lives” as “preposterous”, saying that “they only care about the symbolic destruction of white culture” that they see as “fundamentally morally defective”, comparing it to “exactly what was done to German culture because of Nazism and the Holocaust”.
Anyway, he gave a great talk yesterday about the future of the right. It’s about British politics, so probably not of interest to many here, but I thought it was worth a post for the quote at the top alone.
Posted: March 17th, 2025 under personal.
Comments: 7
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Comment from ExpressoBold Pureblood
Time: March 17, 2025, 8:33 pm
Smarter thinkers than I have said, “Democracy is nothing short of legalized mob rule.”
I fail to see how “populism” is mob rule.
Like I said, I’m not that smart.
Comment from Ea
Time: March 17, 2025, 10:34 pm
Just from the two qoutes, he ain’t wrong. I need to add him to my list. Kind of Douglas Murray’s grouchy uncle
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: March 17, 2025, 11:10 pm
I like the 7 wolves and 4 sheep voting on lunch definition of democracy.
Comment from Uncle Al
Time: March 18, 2025, 12:37 am
Thanks 1e6 for pointing me to Mr. Starkey, Mme. Ermine! Right up my alley, he is.
And, yes, you can still buy TV dinners. “Hungry Man” in particular is a thing.
And as long as we’re talking about TV dinners and the like, a few days ago I ran across a meme that was just a picture of a man, captioned:
I was born a man. I was raised a man. I identify as a man.
But my Stouffer’s Lasagna box says I’m a family of four.
Comment from ExpressoBold Pureblood
Time: March 18, 2025, 1:09 am
From Pi on Friday to scientific notation on Monday… somebody is trying to jump start an interest in mathematics!
Comment from Anonymous
Time: March 18, 2025, 2:23 pm
Pi Day – Scientific Notation Day….
I feel like a number…
Comment from Veeshir
Time: March 18, 2025, 10:40 pm
That is a good quote.
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