CEC - Bryn Owen: British Establishment Historians Are Defiling Their Profession - Attempt to turn history into another ideologically driven fake academic subject like Gender Studies, LGBTQ Studies, etc.

Recent events have made plain the conformism and deceitfulness of much of the British historical establishment. 

Muslims At Dunkirk

When I heard earlier this year about an upcoming film about the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in 1940 I automatically assumed that the filmmaker would submit to the current ideological Diktat and give prominent roles to ethnic minority actors regardless of the fact that ethnic minorities did not play any great role in the events in question. By way of example, the 2007 film Atonement, which is also set around the disaster of 1940, features a Black soldier in a British infantry unit. I think most would agree that this was a rarity 77 years ago. 

Now, when Dunkirk appeared in the cinemas, the film defied expectations and contained white actors that looked like the predominantly white British and dominion servicemen involved in the debacle in northern France. It was not long, however, before the omission of black minority ethnic roles was noted by the liberal thought police. On 5 August 2017 Ms Jasmin Khan, associate professor of history at Oxford, attacked the film in an article in the beloved New York Times for failing to feature any Indian servicemen¹ and, of course, Muslims in particular. The role of the Indians had thus been ignored by the ungrateful and parochial British. 

Now, with all due respect to the small number of Indians who were present in northern France in 1940, their contribution simply was not, as she argues, "significant" in the context of the military operation.

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What we are seeing here is an attempt to turn history into another fake academic subject along the lines of Gender Studies, Post-Colonial Studies and LGBTQ Studies, in other words a subject built around and protected by a political ideology where conformity to an orthodoxy takes precedence over the pursuing the truth and capturing the essence of things. We are now reaping the grim harvest of decades of cultural Marxist domination of the media, the government and the academy. ...

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