Thanks Binoy for another news story.

The new order will live amongst the ruins of their own making.
Sadly...so will the rest of us, if anything remains unburned from their riotous behaviour.

Dan

History cannot be 'erased' by morons, thugs and vandals. The only people who will suffer from the rewriting of history are the woke idiots themselves, who are going to end up living in a horrible world, dominated by China or Islam, whichever wipes the other out. There will be no Western values left to protect them. Those of us who were part of much of the history these jerks despise will be dead and gone, thankfully.

Exactly what proportion of human populations are susceptible to fanaticism is an interesting question. But one thing is certain, a significant proportion of people who think that way really does exist. Psychologists and psychiatrists classify such people as having "Absolutist" personalities. Morality can only be black and white, 50 shades of grey are anathema.

The most striking thing about Absolutists is their total lack of humour. At one point in history in Imperial France, where right wing Absolutist fanatics held absolute power, Voltaire noted how utterly without wit or intelligence the right wing fanatics were. And how smart and wity were their left wing opponents. Today it is the left wing fanatics who seem to have seized the reins of power and today they are censoring and editing everything in the media which offends them with a relish that the old time right wing fanatics in Imperial France would have grudgingly admired.

Remember when those stupid Muslim fanatics running Iran banned "The Muppet Show" because one character in the show was Miss Piggy, and "pigs are haram?" But you would expect those particular morons to think that way. But here we are, 2020 in the enlightened western world, and a new generation of Absolutist idiot fanatics are banning "Gone with the Wind" and "Faulty Towers" for being guilty of today's Absolute Cardinal Sin, Racism.

The funniest thing about banning comedies for their unacceptable "racism" is that when shown on Germany TV, the Germans laughed their heads off at "Faulty Towers" and "Hogans Heroes." They especially loved the Faulty Towers episode on the visiting German tourists. Intelligent people don't take themselves too seriously and they know how to laugh at themselves. Despite what today's educated elitists think about themselves, fanaticism about any PC subject is in no way a mark of high intelligence. Quite the opposite.

It is refreshing to note that even arch liberal Binoy Kampmark is beginning to figure out just how wacky his politically correct leftist movement has become.

Don't mention the war, Binoy.

I actually think laughing at ourselves helps break don racism.

classic shows include Mind Your Language, and Love thy Neighbor.

Mind Your Language was my favorite. Absolute classic

Ttbn,

"History cannot be 'erased' by morons, thugs and vandals. "

Yes, I agree, on the 'Left' or the Right. And what is fascinating about history - as you live it, which we are always doing - is that you never really know what is coming next, and certainly not in terms of the next decades or (I presume, since I won't witness it) centuries.

But being a Panglossian, I'd suggest that, apart from the odd hiccup, we are usually living in the best of all possible worlds. We'll get through all these tribulations and come out stronger and smarter. Well, most of us.

Joe