FIGHTING BACK – OVERNIGHT:  No, not against the Taliban.  We lost that one.  But against the ongoing relentless march of the WOKE battalions.

There is resistance, this time led by the Brits.  Maybe this is the the intellectual equivalent of 1940.  From College Fix:

A group of academics, primarily from the United Kingdom, have formed a group to stop, in their words, the “abuse of history for political purposes.”

The academics, led by Cambridge University Emeritus Professor of French History Robert Tombs, have created a new website they are calling “History Reclaimed,” which seeks to restore a “shared history” for scholars to use.

“The abuse of history for political purposes is as old as history itself,” Tombs said in a statement following the launch of the website. “In recent years, we have seen campaigns to rewrite the history of western democracies in a way that undermines their solidarity as communities, their sense of achievement, even their very legitimacy.”

Other academics joining the website as contributors include Cambridge historian David Abulafia, Oxford ethicist Nigel Biggar, Stanford academic and author Niall Ferguson, Irish writer Ruth Dudley Edwards, educational researcher Alka Cuthbert, and historians Lawrence James, Zareer Masani and Andrew Roberts.

“Whether to ward off criticism or to gain moral advantage, institutions have rushed to embrace the most negative interpretations of their own countries’ histories,” Tombs wrote.

“Activists sometimes assert that ‘facing up’ to a past they present as overwhelmingly and permanently shameful is the path to a better and more ‘inclusive’ future.”

“But the real effect—perhaps the true aim—of their actions is nihilistic destruction,” Tombs wrote.
The full roster of professors, researchers and lecturers includes academics from the U.K., Australia, Poland, and the U.S.

Oxford literary scholar Dr. Marie Daouda told The College Fix her involvement in the group is not so much “anti-wokeism” as it is “a care for truth and for balanced debate.”

“Many members of the group have diverging opinions on matters such as Brexit, economic strategy, religion, or state education,” Daouda said, “but we all hope to provide a reliable source of alternative perspectives on history and how it shapes our present and our future.”

Among the U.S.-based professors contributing to the site is Elizabeth Weiss, who has been attacked as a “racist” by the Anthropology department at San Jose State University for advocating for more rigorous scientific standards when researching human remains.

COMMENT:  I hope this movement grows.  It will do so if academics act with courage, and if the American people start cracking down on how their tax funds are spent to finance corrupt "studies" in our universities.  The road back to sanity will be tough, and minefields await the liberators.  No one, after all, wants to be called a racist, and that's what will happen.

Read the rest of the piece.  These are heroes and heroines.

September 1, 2021