Should Liverpool University remove Gladstone’s name from its building?
Because some fucking student is claiming the usual racist slavery claptrap. Fuck off already.
So what should we make of the call to rename Liverpool University’s Roscoe and Gladstone halls of residence? According to Alisha Raithatha, the student who launched the petition, the former prime minister’s support for slavery makes him unacceptable.
We should tell her in no uncertain terms to fuck herself with her petition. Gladstone is a part of our history and like all historical figures, he was a flawed human being. If this ignorant student wants to complain about slavery, I suggest she pisses off to the Middle East and complains to them about slavery that is happening right now.
As far as I am concerned, Gladstone is perfectly acceptable. He was a part of our history. Get used to it. We really need to take a firm stand against these upstarts who want to wipe away every trace of history that they find “unacceptable”
Fuck them and the horse they rode into town on.
Having traced my wife and my family trees back to c1700 without a single slave owner amongst them, I wonder if the student mentioned could say the same. For a good chuckle have a look at the Ainsley Harriott episode of “Who do you think you are”.
Lots of tenant farmers in my father’s line and escaping Huguenots in my mother’s – no sign of any slaving.
Moira Stuart also comes from the whipping rather than the whipped so skin colour isn’t a passport to historical virtue.
Doesn’t Alisha Raithatha know that Liverpool was ‘built on slavery’? The whole city should be raised to the ground and no self-respecting black racist should come within a thousand miles of the place.
What kind of a wog name is Alisha Raithath?
That’s also apparent in the case of many individuals trying it on via some tacky petition. They aren’t really British.
Hold it. William Ewart Gladstone was behind the British Empires anti-slavery campaigns of the mid to late 1800’s. He railed against the Opium wars. He supported home rule for Ireland.
Gladstone’s only pro-slavery connection comes from his much-regretted 1862 Newcastle speech supporting the Confederate States of North America. Maybe said student ought to learn a little history before starting ill conceived petitions.
Oh, come on!
Oh, sorry. Silly me. I thought people went to university to study things…