A Biased BBC reader writes..
“The BBC’s ‘History of the world in 100 objects’ now escalates its assault on Western culture and values, leaping with enthusiasm from telling us that we must accommodate Islamic principles into our own life if we want lasting peace by adopting pragmatic tolerance and legal equality for Islam to now openly denouncing European history and the ‘Enlightenment’.
The Enlightenment is something that the Left cannot come to terms with because to endorse it and all that follows from it is to deny that every other culture and the practises therein are of equal value, morality, fairness and equal justness….just remember how many BBC staff and other ‘Liberals’ look wistfully to the Chinese way of doing business and tell us that Tibet is all the better for Chinese ‘influence’…that perhaps Democracy is over rated if you want to get ‘things’ done…what things though?
The latest programme is called ‘Exploitation and Enlightenment’….placing them together as if one does not come without the other. A programme that tells us of European’s encounters with non-Europeans in the great Enlightenment Project….the often ‘tragic consequences of European interaction with other cultures….producing a troubling history where many of these dialogues ended in oppression and destruction, the fracturing of whole societies.’
Ironic perhaps that they tell us at the same time that we must conform to the invasive Islamic norms if we want a peaceful society.
The basis of this programme is that we, the Europeans, have written the history and that the BBC is giving voice to the oppressed by using their objects to tell their tales that have remained hidden for all this time.
