This is how it begins…

By trying to erase white history as though it never happened.

They are titans of philosophy, without whose work an understanding of the subject is all but inconceivable.

But now students at a University of London college are demanding that such seminal figures as Plato, Descartes, Immanuel Kant and Bertrand Russell should be largely dropped from the curriculum simply because they are white.

These may be the names that underpin civilisation, yet the student union at the world-renowned School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) is insisting that when studying philosophy ‘the majority of philosophers on our courses’ should be from Africa and Asia.

The students say it is in order to ‘decolonise’ the ‘white institution’ that is their college.

Last night philosopher Sir Roger Scruton lambasted the union’s demand, saying: ‘This suggests ignorance and a determination not to overcome that ignorance. You can’t rule out a whole area of intellectual endeavour without having investigated it and clearly they haven’t investigated what they mean by white philosophy. If they think there is a colonial context from which Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason arose, I would like to hear it.’

The vice-chancellor of Buckingham University Sir Anthony Seldon said: ‘There is a real danger political correctness is getting out of control. We need to understand the world as it was and not to rewrite history as some might like it to have been.’

Students no longer want to go to uni to challenge their own beliefs, but to control what they’re being taught. Excuse me youngsters, but it’s the teacher’s job to determine what you study. You take that material, you think it over, study it, break it apart, then you’re allowed to challenge it. And if the best criticism students can find is that the material was written by a white guy, they should get an immediate F.

If someone walked into a classroom, opened up a textbook, and decided that the material didn’t hold water because the person in question was black, there would be an uproar. They would scream racism. Thank goodness Sir Anthony Seldon has his wits about him in a world gone completely insane.

How long will whites have to pay for colonization of other cultures? Of course we shouldn’t deny the atrocities committed, but how long are whites supposed to pay for things their ancestors did? Meanwhile, no one acknowledges the conquests of the Turkish Empire. The Turks aren’t made to suffer for the sins of their ancestors. Only whites. Nor does anyone acknowledge that the cultures where whites colonized often ended up being better for it in the long run. I’m not a Christian, but I am fully capable of recognizing that everywhere the Bible has touched has ended up being better for it.

This is how a culture and civilization dies. By slowly destroying the foundation upon which it was built as though it never happened.