The Left seems conflicted about Western history. On the one hand, they seek to sever ties to Western history by tearing down statues, renaming places and species, and exhuming graves. But at the same time, they seem intent on revising Western history – that is, rewriting and reimagining it to reinforce their modern worldview, advance their own agendas, or suit the sensibilities of their allies.
The latter urge to change history distorts the facts,
Portraying white people as historical villains Or erasing Caucasians from the history of the islands.
The BBC has been a long-standing contributor to the genre and shows no signs of slowing down.
The Telegraph recently
Revealed BBC’s upcoming historical drama series Battle of Hastings The war, which took place in 1066 between the Anglo-Saxons and the Norman French for control of England, will be acted out by a “diverse cast.”
“Kings and Conquerors,” a CBS Studios co-production picked up by the BBC, will apparently feature non-white actors playing Anglo-Saxon characters.
“The addition of diversity to the medieval production follows the BBC’s ‘colour-blind’ casting of non-white stars to play Tudor courtiers in another upcoming historical drama, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light,” The Telegraph reported.
For example, Trinidadian actor Elander Moore:
MolcarThe son of Ælfga, Earl of Mercia, and himself Earl of Northumbria, he fought against the Vikings and Norman invaders.
Jason Forbes, a black British actor from Bristol, is reportedly set to play fictional Anglo-Saxon aristocrat Thane Thomas.
“Cynics might wonder whether such casting is part of a subtle ploy to reinforce the fashionable progressive message that this country has always been ethnically diverse throughout its history.”
BBC
Original Announcement Commenting on the show, Lindsay Martin, senior vice president of international development and co-production at CBS Studios (formerly Netflix), said the show is a “bold, fresh take on a nearly 1,000-year-old story” that explores themes that are “as contemporary and relevant as ever.”
“Some of us, including people of colour, have grown up thinking that actors should look like the characters they play,” historian Zareel Masani told The Telegraph.
“It is utter madness to apply this colour-blind attitude to the period before the Norman Conquest, when Britain was least multicultural,” he said, calling the approach “highly confusing and completely misleading”.
“The whole series certainly has very little to do with historical fact, so I think we’ll just have to stomach the bizarre idea that there were black earls in Anglo-Saxon England,” said David Aboulafia, professor emeritus of history at the University of Cambridge.
“Especially since we are no longer allowed to talk about the ‘Anglo-Saxons,'” Aboulafia wrote in a recent letter. change name From the Cambridge University History Journal: From Anglo-Saxon England to Early Medieval England and its Neighbours.
“If they didn’t exist, we could do whatever we wanted,” Aboulafia added.
Michael Deacon, British journalist
I got it. “Cynics might wonder whether such casting is part of a subtle ploy to reinforce the fashionable progressive message that this country has always been ethnically diverse throughout history — that anyone who opposes mass immigration in the 21st century is not just racist but historically ignorant.”
But Deacon suggested it was too early to judge without having seen the show, joking that the show could potentially feature Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, dismissing the threat of Norman invasion as “hyperbolic nonsense”, saying: “I don’t want to hear any more far-right conspiracy theories. In any case, it’s vital that we remain open to the world. As any competent historian will tell you, Britain has always been a vibrant, multicultural nation.
Windrush It arrived in 1948 B.C.”
“It shouldn’t be an upturned see-saw.”
Casting “Kings and Conquerors” is commonplace on the BBC’s “Horrible Histories” programme.
release The song “Been Here from the Start,” released in 2021, suggests that the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus, the Aurelian dynasty, and early Britons were black.
The second season of the BBC series Wolf Hall, based on the novel of the same name by Hilary Mantel, which depicts the court of King Henry VIII, has
Reportedly Edward VI’s grandmother, Lady Seymour, will be played by an actress of Bahamian descent, while Yorkshireman Thomas Wyatt, the first man to write a sonnet in the English language, will be played by an Egyptian actor.
Petronella Wyatt, an English author who claims Thomas Wyatt as a distant ancestor,
was suggested “There has to be a logical basis for diverse casting to work, especially in an adaptation of a novel that prides itself on historical accuracy.”
“It has to work both ways, not be an upside-down see-saw. If the logic of modern casting were to be fully adopted, white actors should be given roles on a color-neutral basis,” Wyatt wrote. “But in our cowardly new world, there is no equality, no freedom from moral indignation, no comprehensive tolerance, only sniffs and accusations. We can no longer imagine noble intentions in those with whom we disagree.”
The revisionist agitprop genre is not limited to film.
In August 2023, British publisher Bloomsbury published a children’s book titled “British Black History,” which falsely stated that “Britain was a black country for over 7,000 years before white people arrived, during which time Stonehenge, the most famous British monument, was built.” The book was promoted by government-funded organizations in the UK.
The Left also does not limit its revisionism to racial issues.
Last year, North Hertfordshire Museum decided to retrospectively label the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus as “transgender” and assign him female pronouns.
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