1/6 Nigel Biggar, a Conservative Lord, has been a key figure promoting right wing Christian nationalism in the UK. He & allies are now proselytising in Canada. Historical revisionism lies at the heart of their project. Here’s what to look out for: www.catholicregister.org/item/1730-al... - ThreadSky

alanlester.bsky.social • 4 days ago

1/6 Nigel Biggar, a Conservative Lord, has been a key figure promoting right wing Christian nationalism in the UK. He & allies are now proselytising in Canada. Historical revisionism lies at the heart of their project. Here’s what to look out for: https://www.catholicregister.org/item/1730-alumni-outcry-cancels-residential-school-talk

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sathnam.bsky.social•4 days ago

Glad he is being challenged, but cancelling talks just fuels his bullshit narrative that the fake history is somehow being suppressed, when it is being promoted

npfi.bsky.social•4 days ago

granted, but these people make a big stink about cancel culture if they get so much as a strongly worded postcard. they'll never let go of their emotional support persecution complex, might just as well deplatform them wherever possible.

alanlester.bsky.social•4 days ago

2/6 Our telling of colonial history has become more truthful as we tell hidden stories of those exploited & silenced by colonialism. Biggar & co.’s tactic is to reverse this tendency towards inclusion by representing it as its very opposite. For examples: https://alanlester.co.uk/blog/the-right-wing-culture-war-and-the-refusal-to-listen/

alanlester.bsky.social•4 days ago

3/6 They represent the inclusion of more stories as the narrow minded exclusion of their own celebratory accounts. So, to recover the stories of Residential School victims is apparently to ‘aggressively repress’ narratives that deny their validity.

alanlester.bsky.social•4 days ago

4/6 Biggar pioneered another tactic in the UK that he & allies are deploying now in Canada too. When the Oxford statue of Cecil Rhodes was targeted by antiracist protesters, instead of just defending the statue he defended the man. https://chrr.info/resource/the-british-empire-the-culture-war-when-colonial-history-becomes-politics-with-prof-alan-lester/

alanlester.bsky.social•4 days ago

5/6 The desire to justify Rhodes’ imperialism was what led Biggar from theology to history in the first place. Now, church burnings are the trigger. Rather than objecting to contemporary arson attempts alone,

alanlester.bsky.social•4 days ago

6/6 … the response is to challenge what historians are saying and justify what the church did in Residential Schools. The tactics are those of the networks supporting Trumpism beyond the USA. See: https://activehistory.ca/blog/2024/12/10/exposing-residential-school-denialisms-transnational-network/

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