I probably haven’t watched anything on CBS since Rathergate…
…and even prior to that, I don’t think I had watched them for several decades. I watch very little network TV and not much TV at all.
I suppose somebody does, though. And now this:
CBS has announced a target for its writers’ rooms to be "staffed with a minimum of 40% BIPOC representation beginning with the 2021-2022 broadcast television season, and a goal to increase that number to 50% the following season (2022-2023)."
— Joe Flint (@JBFlint) July 13, 2020
For those of you not up-to-date on current nomenclature, BIPOC means “black, indigenous, and people of color.” “People of color” is my favorite because it’s most elastic. It includes tons of people who look exactly like me, but it doesn’t include me.
I sometimes wonder whether the people who are into this sort of thing – the left, that is – have fully taken into consideration what this constant and utter emphasis on race does. Could it not backfire on them? I doubt that using a racial bean counter approach to hiring writers, for example, is especially likely to lead to an improvement in the shows that CBS produces and therefore in their audience share. I think, though, that the policy is merely meant to signal some sort of goodwill on the part of CBS, a message to the crocodile that says “please eat me last.”
Until now, only a vanishingly small number of people in America who are in fact defined as “white” thought of themselves as part of a group called “white.” But this constant carping on race, combined with the blaming of whites for nearly everything wrong with America and the world, could certainly have the effect of calling forth a feeling of white consciousness and white victimhood. Does the left really want that to happen?
My answer is “perhaps.” Perhaps they see it as a plus, particularly if some skinheads decide to get violent one day. That would give the left even more ammunition for their campaign about how evil white people are. I don’t know, though. It would depend what form it all took.
The odd thing – or perhaps it’s the ironic thing – is that it seems to me that a lot of the people on the left driving this are white rather than black. A great many black people are upset that they are losing police protection and that violence in their communities has increased rather than decreased (see this, for example). But the leftists in charge really don’t care. The black people who are trying to tell them to stop have lives that truly don’t matter to the left, except as far as they can be used as propaganda to further the cause.
“The odd thing – or perhaps it’s the ironic thing – is that it seems to me that a lot of the people on the left driving this are white rather than black. A great many black people are upset that they are losing police protection and that violence in their communities has increased rather than decreased (see this, for example). But the leftists in charge really don’t care. The black people who are trying to tell them to stop have lives that truly don’t matter to the left, except as far as they can be used as propaganda to further the cause.” – Neo
A small sampling of supporting stories.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2020/07/17/a-black-portland-cop-says-rioters-are-racist-leftists-immediately-confirm-it-n654828
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bronsonstocking/2020/07/17/charles-barkley-talks-truth-i-dont-understand-how-you-beat-hatred-with-more-ha-n2572704
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/06/cnn_picked_the_wrong_person_to_interview_about_police_and_blm.html
https://babylonbee.com/news/far-right-extremist-suggests-treating-people-of-all-races-equally
PS on the historical note —
The Rathergate Expose was where I first became aware that there was such a Thing as blogs, and that people could use them against the Nabobs of Network Narrative. All of the nerdy stuff about copying and kerning actually made sense to me, because I had used the same or a similar IBM typewriter as my computer printer in about the same time period as the alleged memos.
I do not listen to TV news (or its on-line equivalent), and had not watched the talking heads for decades, essentially since starting college, and also no longer read newspapers (as I told the sales brigade, I was such a compulsive reader that I would try to get through the entire paper, and just didn’t have time).
My theory was that, if the world was in imminent danger of ending, someone would let me know.
Unfortunately, the world really was preparing to get ready to end (Gramsci Marches On), but I don’t think I would have realized that even if I had been following the news.
Since 2008, I have been making up for lost time.
The new chairman of NBCUniversal News Group (Cesar Conde) is obsessed with one thing, and one thing only. It is not responsible journalism, or accurately reporting the news, which animates his thinking, but only the dogma of diversity and quotas. The MSM in this country long ago abandoned any commitment to reporting the news; the agenda of indoctrinating the viewing public is now paramount.
“That would give the left even more ammunition for their campaign about how evil white people are.”
If the Left had any historical knowledge, they would know not to rile white people. Maybe they will think it will only be “their” white people, and indeed they may have a few white soyfolkjs and white psychopaths among their ranks but they are outnumbered to about 100 to 1.
When they get to the hardcore white folks (say the Saxons) they might, when the Saxon gets going, want to put their “Get-Whitey” concept back in Pandora’s box, but it will be too late.
THE WRATH OF THE AWAKENED SAXON
by Rudyard Kipling
It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate.
They were not easily moved,
They were icy — willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the Saxon began to hate.
Their voices were even and low.
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not preached to the crowd.
It was not taught by the state.
No man spoke it aloud
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not suddently bred.
It will not swiftly abate.
Through the chilled years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the Saxon began to hate.
I saw that you capitalized neither white or black.
About those Gramsci marchers —
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/the-revolution-is-winning/
Andrew McCarthy
Cited by Andy:
https://www.city-journal.org/html/ed-schools%E2%80%99-latest%E2%80%94and-worst%E2%80%94humbug-12948.html
The White Left are using Blacks as a front for their own purposes, just as BLM does. White charlatans, and Black provocateurs; e.g., Sharpton, have manipulated Black people for too long; and the practice is not abating.
Now, however, as the engineered chaos affects more lives, and progressive democrats publicly support, or at least acquiesce in it, I am hopeful of a tremendous backlash.
It is well that thinking Black people, such as Loury, are beginning to open the lid on the can of worms. Even deep thinkers like Charles Barkley are beginning to speak up. (I am kidding, because though he sometimes plays the buffoon, for lots of money, Barkley is very smart and usually sensible when it counts).
PS CBS makes my skin crawl. Well, to be honest, most TV offerings have a similar effect.
I resisted excerpting the rest of the long article, because most of us already know chapter and verse, but it’s worth a “refresher” reading.
Major point: this was written in 2006, so a first-grader steeped in the social justice curriculum then is now a 20-something voter.
We are in serious trouble.
Astute readers here will immediately see the application of the Smithsonian’s poster on the Qualities of Whiteness.
Antifa (young white know nothings) are their brown shirts. BLM their propagandists. They are the vanguard of the radical left. They believe they can abolish traditional America values and bring about a revolution. They are mistaken. When government officials refuse to enforce laws, vigilantes will. This will not end well.
The story may be misreported. NB, in the economy as a whole, the ratio of employed persons to the population over 16 does not vary much by color in an ordinary labor market. It’s almost precisely the same for whites, hispanics, and the Oriental / East Indian population. For blacks, the ratio is generally about 10% lower. There isn’t this large pool of untapped (but willing) labor to mobilize (and even if there were, there’d be a matching problem).
As we speak, about 64% of the working population is white-Anglo. The implication of this supposed plan is that you fancy your talent pool is such that a 50-50 split would be optimal for your labor force. That means (positing the distribution of their current writer’s corps reflects the that of generic employees) your current screening process has a high error rate (36 / 64 = 0.56, or a 44% error rate). Or it means your hiring managers are substituting patronage hires contrary to formal policy. You’d get that idea how? Are your competitors hiring all the hispanics your hiring managers missed?
As we speak, there are 46 occupations tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics wherein non-hispanic whites are a minority, somewhere between 22% and 50% of those so employed.
Miscellaneous personal appearance workers
Laundry and dry-cleaning workers
Graders and sorters, agricultural products
Drywall installers, ceiling tile installers, and tapers
Maids and housekeeping cleaners
Baggage porters, bellhops, and concierges
Packers and packagers, hand
Taxi drivers and chauffeurs
Postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators
Carpet, floor, and tile installers and finishers
Barbers
Painters, construction and maintenance
Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders
Food processing workers, all other
Sewing machine operators
Miscellaneous media and communication workers
Cooks
Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides
Gaming services workers
Cement masons, concrete finishers, and terrazzo workers
Industrial truck and tractor operators
Miscellaneous agricultural workers
Construction laborers
Chefs and head cooks
Roofers
Painting workers
Parking lot attendants
Cleaners of vehicles and equipment
Postal service clerks
Personal care aides
Computer hardware engineers
Tailors, dressmakers, and sewers
Janitors and building cleaners
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers
Grounds maintenance workers
Bakers
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers
Helpers–production workers
Refuse and recyclable material collectors
Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators
Tax examiners and collectors, and revenue agents
Insulation workers
Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks
These are wage occupations. The salaried occupations are two: tax collectors and computer hardware engineers. The former are all public employees. Of the latter, 38% are Oriental or East Indian. So, evidently the fallacious screening process exists in every industry and you don’t have breakout companies prospering because they figure out a better process.
No big deal… the big brained genetic cluster who really *are* ‘over-represented’ in writers rooms all jumped ship to digital streaming years back. Read credits or the copious inside-baseball trade blather. Denial is a River in Africa so please spare me any pearl clutching.
CBS and the other legacy broadcast and cable channels are Legacy Sunset Industry Clapped Out Zombies serving the very old change-averse white boomer population and other groups congenitally incapable of achieving enlightenment no matter how much one belabors them with the Clue Stick. So it’s no big deal to hand over the keys to whoever is stupid enough to want them.
Does this mean Democrats have decided to bring back racial segregation?
“The Democrats Forcing a Civil War” through Antifa and BLM, writes William Gensert at American Thinker. This piece has provoked over 600 comments.
“Through Antifa and BLM, the Democrats are preparing for war. The riots, looting, arson, and public beatings taking place every day are merely practice for the coming revolutionary conflagration. They are war-gaming to see how best to seize control of the streets and intimidate citizens into ceding their right to vote for the candidate they support. From the beginning, they forced the police to stand down. The constant drumbeat for defunding the police has sent a message to LEOs everywhere: ‘Don’t interfere’ when the insurrection goes hot.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/07/democrats_are_forcing_a_civil_war.html
Are people on the Right in denial? Or are Leftists underprepared and embracing the complementary denial?
Commenter blademand-78 raises to utilitarian calculus of what’s coming by looking at the actual comparative costs: “they need to step down before it gets even close to a war. We don’t want it. They could all leave. For the damage they have done, it would be cheaper to ship them to Venezuela or Cuba.”
I believe we’re past that already. The far Left have too much institutional power here, now, to ever give it up, at every level. Why would they “leave us in peace?”
And Democrats beginning with President Bill Clinton have been well paid by Chinese stooges and the CCP. They want influence over the US for their money. And if Americans kill other Americans, that’s a welcome bonus!
the message is: BIPOC cant make it on their own, they have to exist by the graciousness of their betters…
^The Wrath of the Awakened Saxon* is a popular misquotation of Kipling. Some anonymous vandal retitled Kipling’s poem *The Beginnings* and changed “English” to “Saxon” throughout. The matter has been discussed on literature.stackexchange:
https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/3215/did-rudyard-kipling-write-the-wrath-of-the-awakened-saxon
https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/3539/why-rename-kiplings-poem-the-beginnings-to-the-wrath-of-the-awakened-saxon?noredirect=1&lq=1
“…Rathergate…”
Actually, I’d rather not….
Since at this stage of the game—in these times of MSCM’s “Lie to the max until it becomes the Truth”—righteous Rather’s “Fake but accurate”(TM) sounds so very quaint.
Alas, the latest revelations regarding the “newspaper” that brought us the “1619 Project” should surprise no one:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/declassified-christopher-steeles-primary-sub-source-was-his-own-employee-nyt-russiagate
Key graf:
“Meanwhile, a second document released by Graham absolutely shreds a New York Times article authored by Michael Schmidt, Mark Mazzetti, and Matt Apuzzo….”
Hummm…. bof…. some folks have a problem with the meaning of “Anglo-Saxon.”
FWIW – Zerohedge has the Strzok notes, as do many other outlets, but the only copy of Graham’s press release that I have seen, as well as more details that most of the pundits are omitting.
neo writes,
“The odd thing – or perhaps it’s the ironic thing – is that it seems to me that a lot of the people on the left driving this are white rather than black. A great many black people are upset that they are losing police protection and that violence in their communities has increased rather than decreased.”
Seen at Glenn Harlan Reynolds’ Instapundit website:
“It says something when you’re at a Black Lives Matter protest, you have more minorities on the police side than you have in a violent crowd and you have white people screaming at black officers: ‘You have the biggest nose I’ve ever seen.’”
If these snivelling cretins don’t like Anglo-Saxons, wait until they find out about Full-on Saxon Saxon Blood Eagles 🙂
(Hat Tip: Alfred Duggan, whose novels I discovered in the last year or so. Highly recommended!)
On a totally related note, Bjorn Andreas Bull-Hansen on YouTube is pretty good.
I have noticed that a lot of SJWs are white. Have the feeling that they probably come from pretty comfortable backgrounds too. (Probably not a lot of coal miner kids.)
There were more African-Americans breaking from the Democrat Party before this happened and I wonder how much of what is going on is an attempt to stop this. If the Democrats loose their vote they are in real trouble.
This news just show that people who can’t see people as individuals are attracted to the Democrats. They were the party of Slavery, Jim Crow, the Ku Klux Klan an so on after all. I worry that there are a lot of people whose brains are literally incapable of seeing people as something other than a member of a group.
Is probably a Very Bad Idea for Progressive Culture Warriors to goad the Bad Whites into a place where they begin free-associating on double-barrelled nomenclature.
Matthew:
90+% of Black Americans will vote en bloc for the free stuff no matter what. For every Thomas Sowell there are 1,000 Tyrones. The sooner ‘Conservatives’ get that jammed into their skulls the better.
The only way Blacks will vote with Whites is if it becomes an existential struggle against the Hispanics – which it may well do in the near future.
It’s all very well to give people history lessons about Democratic Party of Yore, but it simply does not matter at the electoral level. Politics *is* Racial. Politics *is* Racial. Now raise that to the nth power.
Just the facts. Without facing Base Reality there is no chance of victory, just more of the same old same old gradually and then rapidly accelerating slide down the slippery slope to where most of us know in our guts that we’re going.
Good or Bad has nothing to do with this. Moral choices come *after* facing the facts.
When I learned Hollywood was into child pedo slave trafficking, I stopped watching Hollywood movies, even for free. Maybe one every 5-10 years due to some personal recommendation.
This was about a decade ago.
“not one shred of hard evidence suggests that the pedagogy behind teaching for social justice works to lift the academic achievement of poor and minority students.”
Teaching “social justice” is not a misguided attempt to lift the academic achievement of poor and minority students.
It’s about producing cannon fodder and inculcating self-loathing in the majority of Americans. Plus, creating a meme of victimization among the rest.
“Politics *is* Racial. Politics *is* Racial.” Zaphod
In the aggregate, that’s still true of Blacks, Hispanics and Asians.
In the aggregate, it has been increasingly less true among whites since the 60s.
America has eliminated the laws and regulations that enabled discrimination. Whites overwhelmingly voted to eliminate the institutional barriers that prior to the 60s obstructed non-white socioeconomic success.
Geoffrey Britain:
Correct. And more fool Whites. Do they really think that all the other races will just get with the CivNat program and sing kumbayah? This is utterly insane pathological altruism. Perhaps one could be forgiven for believing in fairies back in the 50s or 60s, but we now have decades of evidence to the contrary.
I’ve lived over half my life outside the West in very different but arguably older, more stable, and far less flash-in-the-pan civilizations. Nobody in East Asia would ever dream of self-flagellating and degrading themselves into some imagined Promised Land. Nobody has any illusions about other ethnic groups and there are no cash and prizes for defecting to other groups.
At best, all the USA can hope for now is some version of the Ottoman Milet System. It’ll be lucky to be that lucky.
I guess I’m one of the few people here who have an interest in BIPOC writers’ rooms at CBS. I like to watch a cop show called “Blue Bloods.” The show is popular among older, conservative people.
It’s very common for the show’s writers to slip current events into the weekly plots, but it’s rarely done in a heavy-handed way. If “Blue Bloods” is forced to add more BIPOC writers, I’ll be curious to see how it affects the writing. If it becomes just another vehicle for the social justice warriors, then my network TV viewing will drop to zero. Oh well.
Zaphod writes that this is “pathological altruism.”On the surface, yes. But it is also calculated Grand political Strategy.
What possesses the Marxist Left, though, is recycling the “Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism” agenda of the SDS-Weathermen of early 1974 — it came out of Chicago radical left labor circles, which is where Obama’s mentor Frank Marshall Davis did his CPUSA work in the 1930s and 40s, as did Valerie Jarrett’s uncle working in the same agitprop circles — and why he went there after his education to do more of the same, and for nearly identical reasons.
The Vietnam War, US imperialism of the Cold War, were the radicals evils of the day, requiring the destruction of American capitalism and a khumbayah, commune like-CHOP set of activist goals, laced with hardcore violence.
Merely replace the war machine rationale with racism, racial injustice, and police state hyperbole and it all falls together: violent communist revolution NOW.
Anti-imperialism is no more specific and no less a slippery definition than the moving target that “fascism is today: it means anything big, successful and lasting that block my whinny goals (eg, parents to a child).
Wikipedia has a refresher. But the best and most vivid collecting the dots recap of its themes comes from a Reader Review at Amazon telling us how Obama’s Red Diaper baby origins in 2010 foretold The Movement’s future with us today. It’s all there, thematically:
It’s long but highly consistent. And now it’s the deeply institutionalised Red Monster in our face, mightily funded (Soros dropped $220 million the other day, said one new report), and demanding we kneel and beg to these crazy overlords who just demand power and our blind fealty.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R3G4CHIP5L22D4/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B000EEGAYM
An old pop culture Buddhist truism is “what goes around comes around.” Ne’er were truer words spoke, as per the Bard. This all the poisoned fruit of Barry and his friends.
Diversity dogma (i.e. denial of individual dignity, denial of individual conscience, affirmative discrimination, color blocs, color quotas). Social justice (i.e. relativistic) anywhere is injustice everywhere. Progress is an unqualified monotonic function: one step forward, two steps backward.
in the presence and under the steady eye of the honored and trusted President of the United States, with the members of his wise and patriotic Cabinet, we, the colored people, newly emancipated and rejoicing in our blood-bought freedom, near the close of the first century in the life of this Republic, have now and here unveiled, set apart, and dedicated a monument of enduring granite and bronze, in every line, feature, and figure of which the men of this generation may read, and those of aftercoming generations may read, something of the exalted character and great works of Abraham Lincoln, the first martyr President of the United States
Colored or of color, Black or black, perchance White Black, or 1/2, 1/8, etc.?
is that it seems to me that a lot of the people on the left driving this are white rather than black
Whites lynched whites, and post-apartheid Progressive South African blacks lynched blacks in balanced racial harmony.
the message is: BIPOC cant make it on their own, they have to exist by the graciousness of their betters…
And women, and men, don’t have four choices and Pro-Choice/abortion the wicked solution. Keep women barefoot, available, and taxable. Yes, this is a common, persistent strain of social progress.
And in case you missed this recent report of a study on BLMs strategic goals, in June, derived from 2016: “ Black Lives Matter: A Thing of the Left Anchored on a Cop-Hate Strategy” — look here.
“As to it being the edge of the Left’s wedge: Anne [Sorock’s] research concluded that BLM was a unique and powerful means — and most definitely not a fleeting opportunity — for a phalanx of causes to achieve political and cultural success. From the report’s introduction:
Cop Hate is critical and central to BLM’s strategy, because by vilifying the police, by portraying individual officers and departments in general as racist, despite clear evidence refuting “systemic” charges, it will achieve the objective of harming the principle of the rule of law. That is vital. And when that happens, the Left will strike and strike hard, and in many places, strike with impunity. Also from the report’s introduction:
“The beauty, if you will, of BLM’s Cop Hate strategy is that it gives protestors actual foes, living and breathing, precincts, fat, juicy targets, as opposed to faceless programs or inert principles….”
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/black-lives-matters-a-thing-of-the-left-anchored-on-a-cop-hate-strategy/
Cop hate is the wedge by which guilt induction can be activated into violence, and violence into authority and governmental control. “Education” into cause-head guilt by neoMarxist educratic indoctrinators of the young Moronielle generation is now the norm, as seen in the floor of the Ruling Class house organ, The New York Times.
How can any corporate citizen resist this Resistance to the Deep State’s villain, President Donald Trump?
Cop Hate is critical and central to BLM’s strategy, because by vilifying the police
The modern-day canaries in the clinic. Abort them. Cannibalize their profitable remains.
How is Trump doing with defeating the BLM/Antifa domestic insurgency? Exactly what needs to be done, explains Kurt Schlichter to former Daily Telegraph columnist, James Delingpole.
See 26 minutes plus to 35 minutes, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs8MTRMAtEI
Their MO turns on decentralisation and concealment, retired Colonel Schlichter turned lawyer, novelist and pundit. Here’s how he slices and dices this domestic enemy, he explains in outline how eventual success is leveraged with time, given the constraints of our Federal system and that the media supports the enemy.
This is information warfare Is to get perceptions to align with achievable goals. Quite worth you time.
He continues by looking at the election and evaluating their respective realistic strategies.
“If they (Commie Democrats) win this election, Trump and his family could wind up in their prosecution, I think he understands…, so I like his odds of winning,” he says later before returning to Occupy Wall Street, which served as a dress rehearsal for mobilising for George Floyd’s death at the hand of cops on video by these far-Left extremists, says Schlichter.
Shouldn’t they be called “bipocals”.
Yep! It’s all race, all the time.
Eeyore, could they be bipocrats?
I still remember Dan Rather having presidential candidate Bill Clinton on his show in 1991. He tossed Clinton puff ball questions for most of the show and finally declared that all those stories about Clinton’s sexual escapades were just lies by the Republicans. Rather evidently can’t tell the difference between fake and accurate.
WRT “Saxon” and Kipling. Kipling had mentioned Saxons in a couple of other pieces. He differentiated them from other English. In his Puck of Pook’s Hill, they were the villains and the Romano-British the heroes in the stories about Parnesius, a centurion on The Wall. He had his heroes meet with the Picts. His poem about a Norman knight’s advice to his son about how to rule the Saxons makes the Saxons look good, in a way, and continues the differentiating of English “races”.
http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_normansaxon.htm
A.D. 11.00
“My son,” said the Norman Baron, “I am dying, and you will be heir
To all the broad acres in England that William gave me for share
When he conquered the Saxon at Hastings, and a nice little handful it is.
But before you go over to rule it I want you to understand this:–
“The Saxon is not like us Normans. His manners are not so polite.
But he never means anything serious till he talks about justice and right.
When he stands like an ox in the furrow – with his sullen set eyes on your own,
And grumbles, ‘This isn’t fair dealing,’ my son, leave the Saxon alone.
“You can horsewhip your Gascony archers, or torture your Picardy spears;
But don’t try that game on the Saxon; you’ll have the whole brood round your ears.
From the richest old Thane in the county to the poorest chained serf in the field,
They’ll be at you and on you like hornets, and, if you are wise, you will yield.
“But first you must master their language, their dialect, proverbs and songs.
Don’t trust any clerk to interpret when they come with the tale of their wrongs.
Let them know that you know what they’re saying; let them feel that you know what to say.
Yes, even when you want to go hunting, hear ’em out if it takes you all day.
They’ll drink every hour of the daylight and poach every hour of the dark.
It’s the sport not the rabbits they’re after (we’ve plenty of game in the park).
Don’t hang them or cut off their fingers. That’s wasteful as well as unkind,
For a hard-bitten, South-country poacher makes the best man- at-arms you can find.
“Appear with your wife and the children at their weddings and funerals and feasts.
Be polite but not friendly to Bishops; be good to all poor parish priests.
Say ‘we,’ ‘us’ and ‘ours’ when you’re talking, instead of ‘you fellows’ and ‘I.’
Don’t ride over seeds; keep your temper; and never you tell ’em a lie!”
Some of the same in his shorts about Hugh and his sister and the young Norman knight.
Two things: Kipling wanted to be paid for his work, so it was either a good feel for his audience–iow they thought the same about England, and Saxons in particular as he wrote–or he was lucky in his Muse.
And it would probably not bother him much to know that the substitution had been made. The characteristics of each, according to him, were similar, and worthy.
Something else here. The whole world to the white race for the last two centuries. “STOP BEING SO MEAN!” Okay. We stopped. How long are the arrears getting?