Past Abuses

Among the more unattractive aspects of wokeness is, of course, its reliance on mere facts when what the master race requires are myths, tales, simplifications and other forms of journalism. Accordingly, the violent criminals who de-pedestalled the sainted Edward Colston last June have called a mere historian to their defence. Someone from a university in a place nobody much cares about testified that Colston's company enslaved more Africans than any in the history of the legitimate and understandable Atlantic trade. The futility of dragging historical fact into British justice must have been obvious even to the vandals, as one of the condemned quickly resorted to a blatant attempt at appropriating the birthright of every patriotic Briton, invoking the central mythographer of our island story and saviour of Winston Churchill's reputation, Adolf Hitler.