Its all getting rather silly now

[vetran]

https://www.gbnews.uk/news/steam-tra...-racism/248661

A replica of the first steam-powered locomotive in Wales could be relabeled by the National Museum Wales (NMW) to highlight the slave trade's links to "the development of the steam and railway infrastructure in Wales".

Richard Trevithick's locomotive was used in the first steam-powered rail journey, which took place at the Penydarren Ironworks in Merthyr Tydfil, in Wales in 1804.

The Cornish inventor, Mr Trevithick, had no personal links to slavery.


But the NMW determined links between steam train technology and the slave trade, claiming the use of the invention is "rooted in colonialism and racism".

next cancelling the hankie!

[xoggoth]

*** ludicrous. Back then, having not even the slightest connection to slavery would be like a business a today having no presence, even third party, on the internet. Even ordinary farmers selling to France would have, as some major shipping companies were connected to the slave trade.

Said it before, but we should focus on real intentional racism today. This constant digging out of obscure connections that nobody had ever heard of is damaging to that intent because people just get fed up with it.

[woohoo]

I refuse to believe this is true and GB news have let the work experience kid put together a satire piece. Or its a ploy to gain some media attention.

[SueEllen]

vetran you better not visit any National Trust properties or go on a Jane Austen tour/event....

[NotAllThere]

Its all getting rather silly now

No, it's been very silly for a while. Now we're having to resort to utterly ludicrous.

Because if you read the article in the Telegraph you'll see that NMW is reviewing it's entire collection, including that locomotive. Reviewing includes "Hey, that has no links and the inventor has no links to the slave trade. Phew, at least we'll have one thing to exhibit!".

(But the whole links-to-slavery stuff, while serious in intent, has become a bit silly. The author of Amazing Grace was a slave trader).

[eek]

Posted here in the Telegraph ‘Cancelled’, the 1804 train with supposed links to slavery (telegraph.co.uk)

And the argument doesn't make much sense - this was machinery used on plantations to aid production and reduce the amount of work required to refine sugar - and it was used to take working conditions from utterly inhumane to just beyond crap...

[d000hg]

(But the whole links-to-slavery stuff, while serious in intent, has become a bit silly. The author of Amazing Grace was a slave trader).

I'm confidently expecting we'll see calls to have that stricken off the church/public roster soon. And somewhat confident they'll win. It will become some sort of protest hymn for the American Evangelical Right.

[vetran]

I refuse to believe this is true and GB news have let the work experience kid put together a satire piece. Or its a ploy to gain some media attention.

call it an education!

[NotAllThere]

I'm confidently expecting we'll see calls to have that stricken off the church/public roster soon. And somewhat confident they'll win. It will become some sort of protest hymn for the American Evangelical Right.

The point was he repented of his former life. Wokeness doesn't allow for this.

[vetran]

Lets cancel sugar, water wheels and the internet!