Can the (Met) police ever change?

[Unkraut]

woke' views that verge on the bonkers.

Verge?! 😁

The 'anti woke' brigade just don't like these things being pointed out.

I think the anti woke brigade don't like such improvements as may have been made in recent years to be put into reverse by such divisive thinking, or more accurately emoting.

 

[newfhouse]

If you read the original post, I didn’t go to school in the 70’s

If you read the post that you quoted you will see that I was contrasting my experience with yours a decade or so earlier.

 

[newfhouse]

the anti woke brigade

You and who’s army?

 

[mudsticks]

Verge?! 😁

I think the anti woke brigade don't like such improvements as may have been made in recent years to be put into reverse by such divisive thinking, or more accurately emoting.

Could you clarify what you mean by 'divisive' thinking?

Or 'emoting' ?



And also enlighten as to which improvements have been put 'into reverse' in your opinion.

 

[multitool]

Perhaps in your world, not in any school I went to, or, with any of my associates.

What on earth makes you think education only occurs in school????

 

[multitool]

"Glorious" failures, are hardly glory of Empire, IMHO.

It matters not that they were failures.

It matters that the prevailing mindset was such that these misadventures were attempted.

Got it yet?

 

[BoldonLad]

If you read the post that you quoted you will see that I was contrasting my experience with yours a decade or so earlier.

Fair enough, your life experiences are as valid/invalid as mine.

 

[BoldonLad]

What on earth makes you think education only occurs in school????

I don’t think that. 😊

 

[multitool]

I don’t think that. 😊

Go back and look what you posted...

 

[BoldonLad]

Go back and look what you posted...

I know what I posted.

Just because I mentioned only one source of education does not mean that I do not recognise there are other 'sources' of education. I did, for example, mention my associates.

 

[Rusty Nails]

Not actual empire, but the tropes of the glorious empire, and plucky Britain winning the war all by itself were still pervasive.

Even as a kid in the 50s it was clear that we would not have won without the US and our allies, including soldiers from our former 'colonies'.

My older relatives who fought in the war certainly were under no illusions about that.

 

[Rusty Nails]

That's the thing about successful indoctrination. You don't notice it at the time.

Is that your excuse?

 

[mudsticks]

Even as a kid in the 50s it was clear that we would not have won without the US and our allies, including soldiers from our former 'colonies'.

My older relatives who fought in the war certainly were under no illusions about that.

I think if anything, the attitudes that glorify war and empire and other such travesties, will flourish the further into history they go.


They just get selectively remembered second hand by those who weren't there to witness the true horror.

There are still plenty of people in their early middle age who will put say Churchill on an unquestioned 'heroic' pedestal, because it's a nice simplistic idea..

There are still wayy more than enough football idiots who will go around chanting 'Two world wars and one world cup' if England is drawn against Germany.

Jingoists abound, and grifters like Farrige etc know exactly how to tap into their blinkered proclivities.

 

[BoldonLad]

Even as a kid in the 50s it was clear that we would not have won without the US and our allies, including soldiers from our former 'colonies'.

My older relatives who fought in the war certainly were under no illusions about that.

Didn’t John Wayne, Alan Ladd etc win the war single handedly? 😀

 

[qigong chimp]

Even as a kid in the 50s it was clear that we would not have won without the US and our allies, including soldiers from our former 'colonies'.

My older relatives who fought in the war certainly were under no illusions about that.

No name check for Russia, whose glorious Red Army tore the guts out of the Nazi military machine?