BBC producer draws Auschwitz parallel to Rule, Britannia
mainAs a sign how normally sane people are losing their marbles over an innocuous anthem, read this latest contribution to the debate from Cat Lewis, executive producer of the BBC’s religious programme, Songs of Praise.
Do those Brits who believe it’s ok to sing an 18th Century song about never being enslaved, written when the UK was enslaving and killing millions of innocents, also believe it’s appropriate for neo-Nazis to shout, “We will never be forced into a gas chamber.” #RuleBritannia
— Cat Lewis (@catrionalewis) August 25, 2020
She went on to say:
1 of 2 I believe slavery was Britain’s holocaust. We should apologise for it properly and yet at the moment, we have NO memorial to enslaved people in the UK. We should not celebrate slave owners.
— Cat Lewis (@catrionalewis) August 25, 2020
Someone at the BBC needs to comment on this dodgy bit of historical relativism from a fairly responsible head of a flagship programme.
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