The War Nerd on exiled.com has been doing a daily update for 25 days straight and if you haven't been reading them you are officially failing at life. Today's update covers the Mau Mau event, yeah the one involving Obama's Grandpa (not that its stopped the big O from doing just the same to other nations as President). Pretty standard for British colonialism, every evil you can imagine from mass murder on an industrial scale to horrific abuse of prisoners and all taking place years after the Holocaust and all the hand wringing and claims to moralism that entailed.
To anyone who cares to look the British Empire was probably second only to the Mongol Empire in terms of most evil organisation ever to exist. But the more worrying implication of today's update is the convincing argument it makes about British academic complicity. Now in hindsight its not really that surprising this is the case but it had simply never occurred to me, but yeah the entire British system is set up in a way to deny the utterly horrific crimes the Empire committed that we still feel the benefits from today. Still, as someone who self identifies as a historian its not nice to think the organisation I believe myself a part of is so complicit in evil.
Monstrous turtles all the way down I suppose.
It would certainly seem plausible there is a similar propaganda model for academia.
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