Thanos, you've managed to write an entire essay about English ethnogenesis whilst seemingly misunderstanding what ethnogenesis actually is.
You acknowledge the Angles, Saxons, Britons, Danes and Normans, yet somehow conclude that because these populations contributed to the formation of the English people, English ethnicity is merely a social construct that anyone can acquire through residence.
That is an extraordinary leap in reasoning.
Ethnogenesis is precisely the historical process through which distinct populations develop into a people, establishing shared ancestry, language, traditions, cultural inheritance and a collective consciousness of themselves.
Nobody is suggesting the English emerged fully formed one morning, genetically identical and untouched by history. Quite the opposite. Our formation was an historical process, and those origins remain part of our inheritance.
Your reference to Æthelred in 1002 is particularly amusing because the English were already recognised as a people centuries earlier. Bede wrote his Ecclesiastical History of the English People around AD 731.
The English did not suddenly materialise under Norman rule, nor did the Norman Conquest somehow abolish the people who preceded it.
Conquest, assimilation and cultural development are not evidence against ethnogenesis. They are part of the very historical processes through which peoples develop.
Then we arrive at your polling argument.
YouGov tells us that people hold different contemporary understandings of Englishness. Fascinating. But since when did public opinion determine historical ancestry?
If 84% of respondents adopt a civic or cultural understanding of Englishness, that tells us something about contemporary attitudes. It does not retrospectively alter the ethnogenesis of the English people.
Interestingly, the same YouGov research found that approximately a third of white adults in England considered English family heritage necessary to English identity. You conveniently overlook that distinction when presenting your figures.
And your argument concerning seventy years of elections is equally questionable.
Voting Labour or Conservative is not an individual referendum on every immigration decision, constitutional development or demographic consequence of their governments.
You're treating electoral outcomes as proof of collective philosophical consent. They are nothing of the sort.
The distinction I've repeatedly made is quite straightforward.
Englishness can be discussed as a national, cultural or historical ethnic identity. These meanings overlap, but they are not necessarily interchangeable.
A modern state may recognise different forms of national belonging. That does not give it the power to alter the historical ancestry of the people from whom England takes its name.
You are perfectly entitled to advocate a civic conception of Englishness. What you cannot reasonably do is pretend that the historical ethnic dimension ceases to exist because you prefer a different definition.
You have confused the historical formation of a people with the contemporary politics of belonging, and then mistaken public opinion for historical evidence.
That is not a refutation of English ethnogenesis. It is a failure to distinguish the very concepts you are attempting to discuss.
WARNING - Remember when I told you about Client side scanning? (Original post below)
On 9 November, the government confirmed it is preparing legislation to put this technology into smartphone operating systems, switched ON by default.
existing phones will receive it through software updates. Adults would have to prove they’re over 18 to switch it OFF.
The EU has been pushing similar proposals under “Chat Control”.
It means software will inspect images and content on your device, before you send them or even view them.
In June, the government was asked whether this technology could also be used to detect and block ‘hate’ speech and other text content. It confirmed it would consider wider uses.
Which means, with Ofcom’s new rules on responding to ‘crisis’ situations, the technology could be expanded to prevent you from sharing content the authorities decide is unacceptable.
Instead of censoring you after you post it, they could stop you posting it in the first place.
But you still have free speech obvs 🙄
There is already a law for this
It is called Misconduct In Public Office,
It is a crime to willfully mislead the public as a public servant.
It is a crime to knowingly not do the job they are paid for .
There is no statute of limitations on it .
And it carries a life sentence.
Apparently the bar is high -however that does not mean that Public Servants should not face trial for MIPO .
📣🚨 FSU VICTORY!
A Scottish FSU member was driving on the M80 with his four-year-old son after a day at an amusement park when another car cut him up, nearly causing a collision.
Under his breath, he muttered something racist. The windows were down, but the other driver wasn’t looking at him. The only witness was his young son in the back seat.
Convinced the dangerous driver had been drinking, our member contacted the police. They eventually stopped both cars and reviewed his dashcam footage.
A week later, the police contacted him to say that an offence had been committed — not by the dangerous driver, but by our member, for words he had muttered under his breath in the privacy of his own car.
He was prosecuted for allegedly causing alarm and distress, even though only he and his young son were in the car. It is extraordinary.
The Free Speech Union found him an excellent barrister, and he was acquitted by the Justice of the Peace within minutes.
This is the closest we have come to defending someone prosecuted for thought crime.
This is the extent of police overreach in speech and thought policing. They need to get their priorities straight.
Watch the Free Speech Union’s General Secretary, Lord Young, below 👇
DER STAATSSTREICH LÄUFT‼️
Heute stand der rechtmäßige Präsident des Verfassungsgerichts, Bogdan Świeczkowski, vor den verschlossenen Toren – das rechtskräftige Urteil des Obersten Gerichtshofs in der Hand. Die Polizei verweigerte ihm den Zutritt.
„Ich fordere die Öffnung der Pforte und den Einlass des legalen Präsidenten!“, rief er. Keine Reaktion.
Wer das Urteil des Obersten Gerichtshofs ignoriert und den legalen Präsidenten aussperrt, begeht einen offenen Angriff auf die Verfassung.
Das ist der laufende Staatsstreich.
#Poland
@rebew_lexa I have no idea how to help -
This is not a government system I understand
I do not need to understand it .
I’m on the Polish people’s side .
So whoever the majority are against -
I also oppose.
I stand with what the Polish people want for their country.
Wow Imagine turning up to an Arab country and saying that.
It’s called sedition & they behead people for saying less than this .
( Not saying that’s an appropriate punishment for giving an opinion )
It’s a continuous people’s homeland that existed here as a stable ethno group for over a millennia before any state or government.
International Law doesn’t agree with his democide version of reality.
And neither does the rest of the countries in the world .
Those who chose for economic reasons to leave their homeland for a country other peoples ancestors built -don’t get to tell those people why it includes them.imho.
Skip the trick. Be the treat. 🎃
Help us tell the next story this country forgot: https://t.co/U26QM2wOnp 🙏🇬🇧
Or just come and see what we're building: https://t.co/b4zYMLlLvk 👻
Halloween isn't American. 🎃
Not the name. 🏴
Not the costumes. 🎭
Not the lantern. 🕯️
Not even "trick or treat". 🚪
The word was so Scottish that Robert Burns had to add a footnote for the English explaining what it was. 📜
The first lanterns weren't pumpkins. 👀
The first time "trick or treat" appeared in print, it wasn't in America. 📰
Every year someone calls Halloween an American import. 🙄
They never tell you the knock on your door is OLDER than America itself. 🇺🇸
So this Halloween, skip the trick. 👻
Be the treat. 🍬
Watch the full story. 👇
Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧
Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧
The “corridor” argument was propaganda cooked up after the fact.
East Prussia was already connected to Germany by sea, and Germany had transit rights through Poland under the Versailles Treaty.
As for protecting ethnic Germans, that was the pretext, not the cause.
The real driver was Hitler’s expansionist ideology and his long-stated goal of conquering Poland itself, laid out in Mein Kampf years earlier( I’ve never read that book -but that’s the well published record of the real reason Poland was invaded)
The staged Gleiwitz incident on August 31 , 1939 , where SS operatives dressed as Polish soldiers attacked a German radio station to fake Polish aggression, shows how manufactured the justification was.
You keep saying it would have been different if Germany had won.
But fascism never actually won anywhere. Same with those people’s republics
communism, fascism, whatever label you slap on it. They don’t work.
And the story you were sold about eugenics and racial purity?
That was never the real point.
It was power wearing a costume.
The proof is sitting right there in the ranks — Indian volunteers in the Free India Legion, Muslim units from the Balkans, the Caucasus, Soviet Central Asia.
When the ideology stopped serving the war effort, they dropped it without blinking -In order to win.
Racial hygiene gave a pseudo-scientific frame to dehumanize entire groups, which is what made mass killing feel like public health instead of murder.
It started with the T4 program euthanizing disabled Germans, then scaled to Jews, Roma, Slavs.
The purity language was the permission slip.
It’s surprising how few questioned extermination of groups with more cultural & ethnic commonalities, and embracing into their army , those of a completely different faith , culture, ethnicity
They were subjects of private companies , with private armies.
The British state bought the debt & inherited the territories.
People became subjects of the British Government.
However The English, The Scots ,The Welsh & the NI
we’re subjects of actual monarchy-predating any parliament.
Both England & Scotland authorised killing , Rape , dispossession & bounty hunting the heads of leaders in the debatable lands ( still in the statute books in Scotland & Wales ) then 1king became the king of both drew a border over them .
Rounded up the people who had fought for 350 yrs against both kingdoms refusing to be ruled by either - they were rounded up and sent to the Ulster Plantations .
So the Blueprint for empire is a 350 year resistance on our border between England & Scotland-& colonisation, ethnic cleansing happened here 1st & they rolled it out everywhere after that .
Saying our land wasn’t stolen , we were not colonised is just an uncomfortable truth no one wants to admit
We then had land clearance forcing ppl into factories in the 1800’s it’s a cycle that keeps repeating in GB .
It’s not new -just they lied about the history.
The empire was gained by trade private companies- who employed local people in private armies ( they are all wealthy families in those countries today -native people of those lands)
Basically Britain bought its empire & british people got the bill.
A Reform legislator being banned from Welsh Parliament for asking a question about the demographic replacement of white people will be studied by historians.
A defining moment in this country’s history.
But we will NOT be silenced.
Do you hate your heritage that much or your parents / grandparents place of origin you’d rather replace it with English?
Then a couple of hundred years down the line your descendants won’t even know if their ancestors were Nigerian Jamaican Indian Nepalese etc just English.
Extremely sad people want to adopt the identity of English when it isn’t their heritage. Complete and utter erasure.