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March 19, 2022

Wokery reaches new depths -- Steam Engines

Dana Mathewson

The Welsh are trying to out-woke us! This article is from Power Line:

Some stories are just so stupid and absurd that only someone with an advanced degree could possible believe them. From The Telegraph:

â€˜Cancelledâ€™, the 1804 train with supposed links to slavery

Trains could face a new kind of "cancellationâ€, as National Museum Wales reviews steam-powered technology over claims it was linked to the slave trade.

Richard Trevithick unveiled the first steam-powered locomotive in Wales in 1804, but National Museum Wales (NMW) displays covering his revolutionary invention face being altered as part of a process of "decolonising the collectionâ€.

Trevithick had no links to slavery, but the museum has claimed that the steam power he harnessed helped drive an imperial British economy that was tied to the slave trade.

A replica of the Trevithick locomotive used in the first steam-powered rail journey faces being relabeled by NMW to include information on these claimed links between industrial technology and colonialism, as curators audit displays "rooted in colonialism and racismâ€.

A statement from the museum said: "Although there might not be direct links between the Trevithick locomotive and the slave trade, we acknowledge the reality that links to slavery are woven into the warp and weft of Welsh society.â€

"Trade and colonial exploitation were embedded in Walesâ€™ economy and society and were fundamental to Walesâ€™ development as an industrialised nation.

"As we continue to audit the collection, we will explore how the slave trade linked and fed into the development of the steam and railway infrastructure in Wales.â€

The rest of the article is here: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/03/today-in-stupid-wokery-steam-engines.php

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at 11:18 AM | Comments (7) | Add Comment
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1 I believe that Western human race is on a collision course to eventually find itself totally racist and therefore must eliminate itself for the better good of itself.

Posted by: Mike at March 20, 2022 03:40 AM (+facI)

2 As Boris Badanoff would say "Hew Boy!"

The steam engine started the industrial revolution, which ENDED slavery. Had it not been for steam locomotives we would still need slaves to do the hard labor.

What fools!

Yeah Mike; we're all racist and must cancel ourselves!

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at March 20, 2022 09:26 AM (U6pXd)

3 Sorry, boys, I refuse. I won't accept the racist label no matter who tried to pin it on me. At a very early age I was "rescued" from a racist environment -- before it had a chance to take hold -- and my parents raised me properly.

We had moved to Florida during the war because Dad's brother convinced us to -- said he could get a good job (and he did). But the brother, who'd NOT been raised a racist, had married a Florida gal and pretty soon he was slinging the "N" word around with the worst of them. Mom decided she didn't want me educated there and exposed to that, so we moved back north.

Posted by: Dana Mathewson at March 20, 2022 09:35 PM (FSK6u)

4 Well,that makes you the biggest racist of all Dana!

Racism is something that the more you resist it, the more you fight against it in yourself, the worse you are according to the Left.

To them it is an original sin. The only way it may be expunged is by accepting the salvation of the anointed Left.

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at March 21, 2022 08:51 AM (ffSwX)

5 Ain't gonna let them do that to me. I'm too old for this crap.

Posted by: Dana Mathewson at March 21, 2022 11:16 PM (FSK6u)

6 Yep; me too.

They can go take a flying leap.

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at March 22, 2022 08:41 AM (pzbSR)

Some stories are just so stupid and absurd that only someone with an advanced degree could possible believe them. From The Telegraph:

Posted by: Fake Watches at August 24, 2023 01:24 AM (OAWTR)

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