{"id":1646649,"date":"2022-09-19T08:02:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T12:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1646649"},"modified":"2022-09-19T08:05:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T12:05:23","slug":"the-british-empire-was-a-force-for-western-civilization-and-thats-why-they-hate-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-british-empire-was-a-force-for-western-civilization-and-thats-why-they-hate-her\/","title":{"rendered":"The British Empire Was A Force For Western Civilization (And That\u2019s Why They Hate Her)"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-british-empire-was-a-force-for-western-civilization-and-thats-why-they-hate-her%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1646649&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Hong Kong and Singapore; India and Pakistan; Egypt and South Africa; Australia and New Zealand; Canada and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>These far-flung countries are all the powerhouses of their regions of the world, both politically and economically.<\/p>\n<p>They have histories of law, order, and general liberty that, though certainly troubled and far from perfect, tower above those of their neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>Finally: They were all once major colonies of the British Empire.<\/p>\n<p>The European empire had many exports. Some were ugly, including death and war (though European colonialism didn\u2019t invent these things and was far from the first to introduce them).<\/p>\n<p>Others, however, were beautiful. When the Spanish empire collapsed 200 years ago, for example, it left lands more Catholic than even Spain itself. And as the British empire receded in the years following its heroic struggle to defeat the Nazis and the Imperial Japanese, it left all around the globe strong and durable native institutions built in the British model.<\/p>\n<p>Because where the British went, tribal justice was replaced with written law. One famous story from Raj recalls Hindu priests complaining to Gen. Charles James Napier that his soldiers wouldn\u2019t let them burn a dead man\u2019s widow on his funeral pyre, per local custom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy nation also has a custom,\u201d the general answered. \u201cWhen men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Far from anecdotal, where the British ruled, slavery was eventually abolished, literacy rates improved, railroads were built, and elites were educated at universities. Theirs is a legacy that stands far apart from the barbarous Dutch, or murderous French \u2014 and the states the British left behind testify to this truth every day.<\/p>\n<p>Queen Elizabeth II, of course, had little to do with this impressive history. She ascended to the throne just 70 years ago \u2014 as the empire was winding down in every respect. That didn\u2019t stop the enemies of civilization from attacking her, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Carnegie Mellon \u201cblackness in multilingualism\u201d professor Uju Anya <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/twitter-removes-professors-tweet-wishing-queen-elizabeth-excruciating-pain-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wished<\/a> \u201cexcruciating\u201d pain on the queen in her final hours, accusing her of genocide and rape. In her own defense, the \u201cantiracist, feminist\u201d professor claimed the queen killed half her family \u2014 a good reason to be angry, were the claim not preposterous.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>While Anya\u2019s parents met at a university they were studying at in wicked England, \u201cThe View\u2019s\u201d Sunny Hostin was <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/sunny-hostin-opens-her-biracial-211647478.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">born<\/a> to a Puerto Rican mother and a black American father in New York City. That did not stop her, however, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/views-sunny-hostin-viciously-attacks-late-queen-elizabeth-live-air-entire-world-see\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">demanding reparations<\/a> from the deceased British queen \u2014 or claiming the rocks in the Crown Jewels actually belong to black people.<\/p>\n<p>Ithaca, New York-raised Harvard professor Maya Jasanoff, for her part, merely <a href=\"https:\/\/spectatorworld.com\/topic\/ignorance-queen-elizabeth-anti-colonialist-critics\/\">complained<\/a> the queen was \u201ca white face on all the coins.\u201d Staggering.<\/p>\n<p>Many who actually lived in and understood the former colonies were, of course, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/queen-elizabeth-continued-colonialism-africa-criticized-social-media-academics-1741472\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">less likely<\/a> to blame the queen for their troubles. Regardless of facts, however, apparent-historian Michael Harriot <a href=\"https:\/\/thegrio.com\/2022\/09\/09\/the-woke-attack-on-queen-elizabeth-is-actually-a-good-thing\/\">says<\/a> attacking the queen in the days following her death\u00a0\u201cis not just OK, it\u2019s actually an important cultural contribution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Why? Because the attacks serve the ends of \u201cCritical Race Theory,\u201d Harriot writes. Oh, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thegrio.com\/2022\/09\/09\/the-woke-attack-on-queen-elizabeth-is-actually-a-good-thing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">also because<\/a> America had slaves.<\/p>\n<p>The historical illiteracy is impressive, even for a bunch of hate-filled activists. But these professors and historians and activists don\u2019t simply hate a woman who\u2019s passed on: They deeply and viciously hate Queen Elizabeth II \u2014 a person they\u2019ve never met and who, to much of the world, symbolized grace, dignity, and poise in the face of dramatic world events.<\/p>\n<p>Where does this level of vitriol come from? It stems from the reality that the queen was one of our final connections to a Western Civilization that believed in itself \u2014 a civilization her critics wish to destroy.<\/p>\n<p>When Queen Elizabeth II was first crowned, the prime minister was Sir Winston Churchill \u2014 a lion of the British Empire, defender of Europe, and ferocious enemy of Communism, Naziism, and any other ideology that would threaten our civilization.<\/p>\n<p>She came from a time when patriotism was a virtue, presidents praised the God of the Bible, and Christendom\u2019s cultures were rightly celebrated for their accomplishments in liberty, prosperity, and beauty. She came from a time when our elites, our politicians, and even our artists worked toward these noble goals.<\/p>\n<p>She was one of the last living links to a day <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fdrlibrary.org\/d-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">when men<\/a> \u201cset upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She harkened back to a day when masculinity was vaunted, and femininity cherished and protected; when honor was respected, and duty was both answered and understood.<\/p>\n<p>She could recall a time when the people of the West understood who they were and what they were about \u2014 and were willing to defend those things.<\/p>\n<p>And so she represents everything the architects of our decline hate. She represents a culture and a society they wish to supplant with their own twisted governments, ruled by their own imagined grievances, based in their own fanciful histories.<\/p>\n<p>They wish to portray the queen as a monster. If on Monday \u2014 as a graceful, honorable, and dignified old woman is laid to rest in the traditions of her civilization \u2014 you struggle to see that monster, simply look around you. See the civilization our forefathers built, and what the trolls offer in its stead.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s no monster, because we\u2019re not monsters. Let them rage, but we must fight them without the assistance of the departed.<\/p>\n<p>In his first public address, a 28-year-old Abraham Lincoln lamented the passing of the last of those who lived the American Revolution, worrying what would befall a nation that no longer enjoyed the benefit of their living wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey,\u201d Lincoln said, \u201cwere a forest of giant oaks. \u2026 They were the pillars of the temple of liberty; and now that they have crumbled away, that temple must fall unless we, their descendants, supply their places with other pillars, hewn from the solid quarry of sober reason.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So let them rage. If we\u2019re to continue, we must busy ourselves with the hard work ahead for those living left behind.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Christopher Bedford is a senior editor at The Federalist, vice chairman of Young Americans for Freedom, a board member at The Daily Caller News Foundation and National Journalism Center, and the author of &#8220;The Art of the Donald.&#8221; His work has been featured in The American Mind, National Review, the New York Post and the Daily Caller, where he led the Daily Caller News Foundation and spent eight years. A frequent guest on Fox News and Fox Business, he was raised in Massachusetts and lives across the river from D.C. Follow him on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBedfordDC\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong and Singapore; India and Pakistan; Egypt and South Africa; Australia and New Zealand; Canada and the United States. 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