Tea at Trianon: ‘Hate And Misinformation’

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Saturday, April 2, 2022

‘Hate And Misinformation’

From The Daily Wire:

On Thursday, The Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles traveled to Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, after being invited by the Washburn College Republicans to give a speech about radical gender ideology. The event, which happened to occur on the same day as International Trans Visibility Day, was apparently signed off on by the school’s president, Jerry Farley. Yet on Tuesday, Farley sent a campus-wide email condemning Knowles for — as the school’s president put it — having a “history of inciting fear and distrust.”
In reaction to that email, Knowles challenged Farley to join him on stage Thursday and rebut his idea that boys cannot become girls. The president was a no-show on the offer, but anti-Knowles students and community members appeared on campus grounds nearly three hours before the event to protest the conservative speaker.
Young America’s Foundation, which is also involved in Knowles’ talk, reported that Farley told the campus community that a “Washburn student organization has invited a speaker to campus who has a history of inciting fear and distrust.”
“While I am strongly in the support of first amendment rights, I am disappointed when those rights are used to make others feel unwelcome and even unsafe in our community,” Farley explained.
He added that he does “not condone the hate and misinformation spread by the speaker and his supporters.” (Read more.)

julygirl said...: if one speaks out against the upheaval in gender norms and the scientific fact of human and animal gender differences than one is accused of inciting this and that. Tragic.; April 3, 2022 at 4:31:00 PM EDT