As the historian Andrea Stuart demonstrated in her recent book, Sugar in the Blood, the original Tate galleries funded their collections from the slave labour that generated the wealth of the Tate & Lyle sugar empire.
Given that the original Tate and Lyle companies that were the constituents of the joint company were both founded some 35 years after slavery ended?
Err, no:
Another example is All Souls College in Oxford, “paid for by the profits generated by the slaves who toiled and died at the Codrington estate in Barbados”.
Codrginton’s will paid for the library. All Souls was there rather earlier.
Dr Gavin Lewis
Manchester
Tsk eh, northern academics these days……
truthiness
The quality of stating concepts one wishes or believes to be true, rather than the facts.
Origin: Stephen Colbert, “The Colbert Report,” 2005
“And that brings us to tonight’s word: truthiness.
“Now I’m sure some of the Word Police, the wordanistas over at Webster’s, are gonna say, ‘Hey, that’s not a word.’ Well, anybody who knows me knows that I’m no fan of dictionaries or reference books. They’re elitist. Constantly telling us what is or isn’t true, or what did or didn’t happen. Who’s Britannica to tell me the Panama Canal was finished in 1914? If I wanna say it happened in 1941, that’s my right. I don’t trust books. They’re all fact, no heart.”
Labour is part of business. [spell checker wants me to use labor]
Unions/Libtards ascribe primacy to labor. “You couldn’t make that without labor!” Yeah, well, you couldn’t make it without machinery, engineering, working capital, electricity, design, sales, et cetera.
Libtards ascribe their view to historical enterprise, “Tate galleries funded their collections from the slave labour that generated the wealth of the Tate & Lyle sugar empire.”
Labour was only one of many aspects of the business, ascribing its success to “slave labour” is stupid and lazy.
“As long as systems of power remain white, racism against white people will not be the same as racism against people of other races.”
theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/05/racist-racism-racially-white-ethnic-minorities
All Souls was founded half-a-century before Columbus rediscovered America. Both Tate and Lyle were children when slavery was abolished in 1833.
But hey, who cares – “comment is free” even when it is a complete pack of lies.
It’s funny how the writers from Jamaica and Africa seem a lot less bothered about this matter than the wankers from London and Manchester.
It illustrates the extent of the leftist rot/mould in academia.
To the degree that there is scarcely any academia left. It is ALL leftist rot.
All non-science courses must be shut down at once. and all associated teachers/academics sacked without compensation and their pensions confiscated. All students booted out.
Leftist indoctrination must be halted.
Peruse this:
http://blogs.new.spectator.co.uk/2015/10/why-are-students-now-cheering-about-the-massacre-at-charlie-hebdo/
If this is how matters now stand across the West the lefts dirty work is nearly done.
Calm down, ecksy, calm down: these anarcho-fascist rants of yours detract from the serious points you make – such as the link to the Spectator blog. And, as far as I can see, Dr Gavin Lewis isn’t an academic — at least not at Manchester.
Theo–the “rants” as you put it are born of a desire to see something done about matters. Making points –even when a small number of others with some nous recognise the points as valid–achieves F-all. And meantime the scum march on.
Ecksy – Fascistic rants about closing courses and depriving lecturers of jobs and pension entitlements without due process achieve what exactly? Fuck all is the answer; because, as long as we have the rule of law, your proposed actions are non-starters. Winkling the left out of academia will require more subtle measures. As a start, I’d privatise the universities.
It’s not just universties where there’s lefty rot. The left have captured education from the bottom up, and people go along with it because they agree with having ‘free’ babysitting five days a week. It’ll would be almost impossible to defund it.
Fascistic rants about closing courses and depriving lecturers of jobs and pension entitlements without due process achieve what exactly?
Theophrastus. I’m cofused: surely UCL’s non-due-process rants achieved the defenestration of Tim Hunt.
Ignorant sloppy, make it up as usual in The Guardian.
It’s only a footnote – the crews of the slave ships apparently had less than half the chance of making a crossing alive than the cargo – where’s the RMT when you need ’em?
I found all the letters thoughtful, and much to agree with.
Where was the one about the legacy of hetero normative slave society that begat the current persecution of gays in Jamaica?
Getting impressionable kids out of the hands of Marxists?
Here’s a ‘fascist’ idea for you: privatize education, stop subsidizing students, and let the market decide how many Marxist academics the world needs.