a nitwot, dave?
and thank you for not including my name on your friend list as it mite get me bounced off the petc list just after you.
> From: David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 2006/01/01 Sun PM 08:48:13 EST
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Colonisation
>
> Alison, tush!
>
> I am probably the most non-racist person in existence, my best friends
> include the born-in-France but Alsatian-by-descent Roger, the Scots nitwot
> Rob, the lovely Safia who doesn't even know whether her descent is Hindu or
> Moslem, because all her family are atheists from South Africa, my two lovely
> ladies: Victoria (who is Anglo-Italian-Welsh) and Lydia (who is part
> Swedish, part American, part Irish)
>
> etc, etc
>
> Best
>
> dave
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alison Croggon" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 1:29 AM
> Subject: Re: Colonisation
>
>
> > Yes David, it is possible to talk about racism without espousing racist
> > attitudes. I'm just not certain that you were doing that.
> >
> > On 2/1/06 12:06 PM, "David Bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I do strongly disagree on this: there was never a cultural myth of
> > > British 'innocence'
> >
> > Wow! Even my personal experience speaks otherwise. My mother (a product of
> > the Raj, as were many of my ancestors - the administrative upper middle
> > class that ruled India) is full of it. The British were benevolent and did
> > the countries they colonised enormous good; they were there to civilise
> and
> > to help the "natives"; the "natives" loved them (like my Great Great Uncle
> > George, who was "adored" by the Tibetans because he "looked after" them)
> > &c&c. George Monbiot quotes a few of those myths as currently retailed in
> > his article. And yes, Victorian English novels, children's histories and
> so
> > on are full of this kind of rubbish.
> >
> > Best
> >
> > A
> >
> >
> > Alison Croggon
> >
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