Why am I not surprised at your utterly bonkers contribution? Fantastic?!?!?
Stephen Walsh
6 months ago
The National Trust was established to “promote the permanent preservation for the benefit of the Nation of lands and tenements (including buildings) of beauty or historic interest.” Now it has determined to treat the majority the Nation as unwelcome aliens in their own land, and to malign the reputations of the benefactors who entrusted their inheritances to it.
Peter B
6 months ago
There is no “global majority”. The Chinese and Indians top out at around 12% of the total each. Though I doubt that’s who the National Trust had in mind.
Identity politics at its most stupid.
As Stephen Walsh astutely notes in his comment, there’s no sign of the National Trust declining funding from the “non global majority” who’ve provided most of its funding (members and smaller donations as well as the legacy estates). Same pattern – of course – with the C of E.
Mike Downing
6 months ago
National Embarrassment; now all those frustrated hate preachers who didn’t find an opening in the Green Party at the recent elections can get jobs as walk leaders.
Oh, but they never go for a walk (it’s the systemic racism).
Tom Lewis
6 months ago
Are NT ‘Walk Leaders’ paid or volunteers ?
If paid, then surely it’s straight up racial discrimination (of a minority (Their words, by implication, not mine)). If volunteers, then it’s, maybe, not so bad, but, even then ! I have no problem with he NT trying to get people, of any hue or underrepresented demographic out and taking physical exercise and enjoying the heritage that Britain has to offer, but I despise the Weasley, insulting, way they go about it.
Right-Wing Hippie
6 months ago
The UK heritage organisation has announced plans to help 100 “people from the global majority” become walk leaders, joining a growing effort to help expand outdoorsmanship to a more racially diverse audience. The North Face, for example, offered a 20% discount in March to anyone who took an online course on inclusion which, among other things, taught that racial minorities need “affinity groups” where they can “learn about the outdoors without fear of being judged”.
So, as a white person and therefore part of the “global minority”, I assume that I need an “affinity group” where I can learn about the outdoors without fear of being judged, correct? I mean, I’ve seen articles lately that suggest an appreciation of the English countryside is indicative of white supremacy, and quite frankly I’m grateful to the National Trust for taking steps to ensure that I can enjoy the picturesque British landscape without being judged by a bunch of Leftwing jackasses.
Or is this more of a Bolshevik-Menshevik thing, where the “Majoritarians” actually represent a minority, and vice versa for the “Minoritarians”? “Global Bolsheviks” has a certain ring to it.
Benedict Waterson
6 months ago
The term ‘Global majority’ only makes sense: 1… From the perspective of the entire globe, ignoring all local or specific contexts (an abstraction which no other part of the world would entertain) ,
and 2… If you lump all identities outside a putative undifferentiated ‘whiteness’ together into one singular, equally undifferentiated identity.
Utterly moronic, even by the standards of those people.
J Bryant
6 months ago
With reference to the exclusion of RFK Jr from the debate, I wonder if it’s possible for him to take a page from Trump’s book. Trump didn’t participate in the Republican nomination debates; instead he ran his own interview in the same time slot as the debates.
I wonder if RFK could run counter-programming at the same time as the Trump/Biden debate. Maybe RFK could be questioned by a panel of journalists about his beliefs and political agenda? It would be interesting to see how many skipped the Old Codger debate in favor of an RFK interview.
D M
6 months ago
So let me get this straight- the “global minority” …. Stuff it! Some people, need a “help group” to glad hand them and share their “insert fatuous lived experience or similar descriptor here” to get out and enjoy the great outdoors. At the risk of sounding reactionary could they not do what the rest of us do, ergo Google a place and think “that looks nice, let’s go there for a walk” ….. I despair…..
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SubscribeThe global majority is clearly Chinese people, Japanese people, white people , Hispanics and Filipinos.
Finally!! Something Biden and Trump can agree on. RFK would destroy them both in a debate. And I’m not even an RFK supporter.
Why am I not surprised that you think the utterly bonkers RFK is fantastic?!?!?
I literally said I’m not an RFK supporter.
Yeah, but you’re full of it. You say you don’t like Trump but you are here fawning over him even as he gets more and more ludicrous!
Why am I not surprised at your utterly bonkers contribution? Fantastic?!?!?
The National Trust was established to “promote the permanent preservation for the benefit of the Nation of lands and tenements (including buildings) of beauty or historic interest.” Now it has determined to treat the majority the Nation as unwelcome aliens in their own land, and to malign the reputations of the benefactors who entrusted their inheritances to it.
There is no “global majority”. The Chinese and Indians top out at around 12% of the total each. Though I doubt that’s who the National Trust had in mind.
Identity politics at its most stupid.
As Stephen Walsh astutely notes in his comment, there’s no sign of the National Trust declining funding from the “non global majority” who’ve provided most of its funding (members and smaller donations as well as the legacy estates). Same pattern – of course – with the C of E.
National Embarrassment; now all those frustrated hate preachers who didn’t find an opening in the Green Party at the recent elections can get jobs as walk leaders.
Oh, but they never go for a walk (it’s the systemic racism).
Are NT ‘Walk Leaders’ paid or volunteers ?
If paid, then surely it’s straight up racial discrimination (of a minority (Their words, by implication, not mine)). If volunteers, then it’s, maybe, not so bad, but, even then ! I have no problem with he NT trying to get people, of any hue or underrepresented demographic out and taking physical exercise and enjoying the heritage that Britain has to offer, but I despise the Weasley, insulting, way they go about it.
The UK heritage organisation has announced plans to help 100 “people from the global majority” become walk leaders, joining a growing effort to help expand outdoorsmanship to a more racially diverse audience. The North Face, for example, offered a 20% discount in March to anyone who took an online course on inclusion which, among other things, taught that racial minorities need “affinity groups” where they can “learn about the outdoors without fear of being judged”.
So, as a white person and therefore part of the “global minority”, I assume that I need an “affinity group” where I can learn about the outdoors without fear of being judged, correct? I mean, I’ve seen articles lately that suggest an appreciation of the English countryside is indicative of white supremacy, and quite frankly I’m grateful to the National Trust for taking steps to ensure that I can enjoy the picturesque British landscape without being judged by a bunch of Leftwing jackasses.
Or is this more of a Bolshevik-Menshevik thing, where the “Majoritarians” actually represent a minority, and vice versa for the “Minoritarians”? “Global Bolsheviks” has a certain ring to it.
The term ‘Global majority’ only makes sense: 1… From the perspective of the entire globe, ignoring all local or specific contexts (an abstraction which no other part of the world would entertain) ,
and 2… If you lump all identities outside a putative undifferentiated ‘whiteness’ together into one singular, equally undifferentiated identity.
Utterly moronic, even by the standards of those people.
With reference to the exclusion of RFK Jr from the debate, I wonder if it’s possible for him to take a page from Trump’s book. Trump didn’t participate in the Republican nomination debates; instead he ran his own interview in the same time slot as the debates.
I wonder if RFK could run counter-programming at the same time as the Trump/Biden debate. Maybe RFK could be questioned by a panel of journalists about his beliefs and political agenda? It would be interesting to see how many skipped the Old Codger debate in favor of an RFK interview.
So let me get this straight- the “global minority” …. Stuff it! Some people, need a “help group” to glad hand them and share their “insert fatuous lived experience or similar descriptor here” to get out and enjoy the great outdoors. At the risk of sounding reactionary could they not do what the rest of us do, ergo Google a place and think “that looks nice, let’s go there for a walk” ….. I despair…..