Do you trust English History?

[BritPat]

Do you trust the writers of history that demonise the English ?

 

 

With respect I humbly contend that essentially you are making the same mistake as Frank Sidney.

 

He seems content to wallow in self indulgent British/White guilt, you on the other hand seem to feel that you need to be in the vanguard of the defence of Britain's history.

 

History is never more than an imperfect record of the past.

British History, insofar as it may be said to have shameful aspects to it, is no different to the History of any other State.

 

ex post facto guilt is wrong on its face, One can hardly exhibit evil intent (mens rea) regarding the past, it is a contradiction in terms, malice aforethought by definition applies to future action.

 

History is disproportionately influenced by those individuals and bodies that had the power to act in days gone by.

 

It wasn't British people that enslaved the World but Bankers (largely of Oriental extraction) that financed the business, landowners that utilised slaves a one off price plus subsistence and you need not pay a man for another days work (The inspiration for immigration ?), African slaves were bought from African and Arab Slave traders.

 

Wars to seize resources, secure trade routes and even the Opium wars may well have used British men to kill and be killed (nothing really changes), the interests served were those of Bankers and Merchants though.

 

The soldiers that returned often faced poverty unemployment drunken desperation and jail before an early death.

 

Frank Sidney has nothing to feel guilty about and you therefore have nothing that requires a defence.

[BritPat]

History is old news. Over time with distance it is possible to be a bit more objective, but only a bit historians create the stories they want to from the evidence they pick just as journalists do today.

 

Surprised by your admission there.