May 22, 2005
IMAGINE EXPLAINING TO LUCKY JACK?:
Nelson sunk by PC raiding party (Andrew Porter, 5/22/05, Times of London)
ADMIRAL NELSON saw off the mighty Franco-Spanish fleet at the battle of Trafalgar but 200 years on, he has been sunk by a wave of political correctness.Organisers of a re-enactment to mark the bicentenary of the battle next month have decided it should be between “a Red Fleet and a Blue Fleet” not British and French/Spanish forces.
Otherwise they fear visiting dignitaries, particularly the French, would be embarrassed at seeing their side routed.
Don't they have to be used to it by now? Posted by Orrin Judd at May 22, 2005 8:25 PM
Not only do I think that the French/Spanish fleet should be identified as such in this celebration, but think that in June, or was it July?, the Brits ought to commemorate the 65th anniversary of their sinking of the French fleet at harbor after the French surrendered to the Nazis in 1940.
Posted by: Jim in Chicago at May 22, 2005 9:00 PMAs a descendant of Adm. Nelson I am offended (but not suprised) that the British Government would sink to such depths. The French are big boys, they can handle a little more humiliation.
Posted by: Jason Johnson at May 23, 2005 12:17 AMThe wimps here are the organizers who fear offending the French.
Posted by: Randall Voth at May 23, 2005 4:45 AMI wish they were just wimps. They are more likely politically correct social engineers. Nasty breed, but surprisingly tough. And they have speciated all over Europe. These guys and the Scandinavian intellectuals who argue that the Vikings were traders, not raiders, who promoted an early proto-type of European integration share a common ancestor.
Posted by: Peter B at May 23, 2005 5:37 AMOne can easily imagine that this will be the norm for all European history in future EU approved textbooks. The only sanctioned villans in said texts will be the U.S. and Israel.
Posted by: MB at May 23, 2005 8:02 AMThanks for the headline.
Posted by: David Cohen at May 23, 2005 11:32 AMI live to serve.
Posted by: oj at May 23, 2005 11:56 AMFearing to embarrass the French? What a thought? They must be immune to such human emotion or the generations following WWII would still be doing penance for their ancestor's collaboration, particularly their embarrassing surrender to the Nazi's of those dangerous Jewish orphans
An act so despicable the mind recoils from accepting it as the truth.
Posted by: erp at May 23, 2005 1:36 PMThe French have dignitaries??? Who knew?