People, did you hear Trump’s speech on the occasion of King Charles’ visit? I only now had time to listen, and it’s a beautiful, uplifting speech. Here’s an excerpt:
For nearly two centuries before the Revolution, this land was settled and forged by men and women who bore in their souls the blood and noble spirit of the British. Here on a wild and untamed continent, they set loose the ancient English love of liberty and the great Britain’s distinctive sense of glory, destiny, and pride. And that’s what it is, glory, destiny, and pride.
The American patriots who pledged their lives to independence in 1776 were the heirs to this majestic inheritance. Their veins ran with Anglo-Saxon courage. Their hearts beat with an English faith in standing firm for what is right, good, and true.
I’m not remotely English, as we all know, but I stand in awe of the magnitude of the English achievement in every sphere.
A beautiful speech. I recommend listening to the whole thing.
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There’s a nuance between the perspectives on British colonialism that I feel left wing academics fail to understand. Yes, the British brought slavery to the Americas, but they were also the ones who, at the expense of their own military and economic elite, used Royal Navy to patrol the coast of West Africa to abolish the transatlantic slave trade. The same British who exploited their colonies were the ones who modern human rights law originated. The modern world system was created by the British Empire and inherited by the United States.
While these imperial hegemons acted in their own interest, they also created a world where their own power didn’t depend on complete subjugation of lesser powers. The same institutions that critique and despise the British wouldn’t have existed without them. British enlightenment values brought forth an era in which the systems that created these values could be critiqued and debated. You ask the average white Marxist academic they’d have you believe the British Empire personally killed their mother and sodomized their father.
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