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It looks as if millennials including you have a rather inflated sense of your own newness and importance. I was taught about slavery in the 1980s. Large numbers
by dash2 5y ago
It looks as if millennials including you have a rather inflated sense of your own newness and importance. I was taught about slavery in the 1980s. Large numbers of British people fought slavery in the 1780s. 19th century Britain spent around 2% of its GDP on the prevention of slavery.[1]
[1] Chaim D Kaufmann and Robert A Pape, "Explaining costly international moral action: Britain's sixty-year campaign against the Atlantic slave trade", International Organization 53, 4 (1999), pp. 631--668.
- Tycho 5y agoThe general impression I get from the sudden burgeoning wokeness in the UK is that a lot of people were somehow able to reach their 20s thinking that the world was largely a Disney film. Then when they found out, maybe at university, maybe just through mainstream media, about the horrors of history, it shook them to the core.
- hkt 5y agoWe're just on one side of a culture war. The elder generation (no prizes for guessing which one) appears to have descended into fantasies about WW2 and the empire and it is being left to the young to try to be honest. There is no suggestion that we are the first; rather, I suggest our victory over the apologists might be starker and more final. Perhaps wishful thinking.
- dash2 5y agoThat itself seems like a fantasy, based on an immature worldview of goodies who know the Truth versus deluded baddies. How exactly are the young more honest than previous generations? What is this coming victory, exactly?