Jacob Rees-Mogg on Oriel College & Cecil Rhodes ‘not a black and white figure’
Jacob Rees-Mogg has returned to one of his favourite subjects- history- in the Commons and opined on Cecil Rhodes. An Editorial in the Daily Telegraph (11th June) has backed him up and agreed that Rhodes was a complex figure. Perhaps so but racism and imperialism can be found in all areas
Rees Mogg’s comments in the Commons (10th June) are an ‘anti-woke’ classic without doubt….
As regards the academics refusing to teach, I mean I am half tempted to say you should be lucky not to be taught by such a useless bunch but if they are that feeble, what are you missing? I mean what are they doing there? Why don’t they have any pride in their country, our marvellous history and its success? And Rhodes is not a black and white figure. Perhaps they’re not learned enough to have bothered to look up the history of Rhodes in any detail which has been written about quite extensively now and as I say: he is a figure of importance and of interest and of enormous generosity to Oxford. Do they want to give the money back to the descendants of Cecil Rhodes? Or are they intending to keep it to themselves? So we must not allow this wokeness to happen. The idea of changing Churchill college, well perhaps we should introduce a bill to rename Cambridge Churchill and call it Churchill university and that would be one in the eye for the lefties
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