The other crucial idea here is the vertiginous fall from “heart of Empire” to “occupied colony”. In the imperial imagination, there are only two states: dominant and submissive, coloniser and colonised. This dualism lingers. If England is not an imperial power, it must be the only other thing it can be: a colony.
Ugh, this. This is exactly the narrowminded nonsense about Europe that I could never stand??? When people are all like "we're going to be under the EU's thumb and I'm just like... what the fuck? Why? Why can't you be shaking hands or something instead???
“Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this [unifying Europe], and it ends tragically. The EU is an attempt to do this by different methods,” Boris Johnson told the Telegraph on 14 May 2016, a month before the referendum.
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It helped that the tiny Falklands population that was serving this microcosmic function was almost entirely white – a “British people” that no longer existed – and that this “British territory” was an almost entirely rural landscape. The Falklands was a kind of make-believe England with no black and brown immigrants.
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Date: 2019-10-04 11:19 am (UTC)The other crucial idea here is the vertiginous fall from “heart of Empire” to “occupied colony”. In the imperial imagination, there are only two states: dominant and submissive, coloniser and colonised. This dualism lingers. If England is not an imperial power, it must be the only other thing it can be: a colony.
Ugh, this. This is exactly the narrowminded nonsense about Europe that I could never stand??? When people are all like "we're going to be under the EU's thumb and I'm just like... what the fuck? Why? Why can't you be shaking hands or something instead???
“Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this [unifying Europe], and it ends tragically. The EU is an attempt to do this by different methods,” Boris Johnson told the Telegraph on 14 May 2016, a month before the referendum.
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It helped that the tiny Falklands population that was serving this microcosmic function was almost entirely white – a “British people” that no longer existed – and that this “British territory” was an almost entirely rural landscape. The Falklands was a kind of make-believe England with no black and brown immigrants.
[low whistle] Holy shit, they said that.
...man that article was a wild ride.
Thank you for linking it! <3