The Campus Controversy

Hi All, 

Once upon a time in an alternative reality...

The left liberal  undergraduate students were in outrage as they decided to strike (not take their exams) ; there were riots across America as various coalitions of the American liberal  left came together to oppose the latest expression of GOP, racist, colonialist, slavery supporting, Cis gendered,  straight, white male privilege, even worse  this time it  in cahoots with the old Imperialist oppressor Fascists of the British Empire, whom it was well know had interfered and ‘meddled’ in the last few elections in favour of the GOP!

The coalition included The IARAW (Irish American Republic Army of Woke),  The MLM (Muslim Lives Matter) , ALLAH (Africa American Liberal Left Alliance of Hope),  FARCE (Feminists of America Racial Community For Equality), , CUNTP ( Continental Union of Nationwide Transgender Persons)GLAT (Gay, Lesbian Alternative Lifestyle) , SJWUS (Social Justice Warriors of the United States), BB (Bollinger Bolsheviks) ,ASWD (Allied Straight White Dudes) & finally AMLW (Alliance of the Marxist Leninist Woke) . All of them were armed to the teeth as they marched on Washington DC for a showdown at the British Embassy. 

What did the British do then to upset the American left? Well it was technically nothing to do with the British government as such, but one of their Universities called the  Royal Greater Manchester Collegiate University & Educational Seed Trust. This University was founded several years after the Anglo-Soviet War and  had the academic rigour and tradition of  Oxbridge, with a billion pound fund, with a special mandate to open up other educational centres across known space, which 40 years later it had done in abundance.

What you may ask could cause such an angst in our American Liberal Youth? The answer is because the University was to be called 'The  Robert E Lee University of America' and its first College was to be called Wilberforce, to be based somewhere in Texas (mainstream America was still in awe at the recent battle of the Constainople straits where the Med Fleet of the  Royal Navy, had thrashed the Russians at a 'new Trafalgar' or 'Tsushima', despite being outnumbered 5 to 1 or quite how the Anglo-Martian  Marine and Para force undertook an amphibious and air assault on Sebastopol within five days and initated an overthrow of Russian President Pytor Kryuk, followed the French President Emmuel Limace's delight at hosting a peace conference.

To the American Left the idea that any American University should be named after an infamous confederate general was anathema and bordering on Fascist. Except that this Robert Elijah Lee was born in 1920s Shanghai, the son of Eleanor Mofaz, of a prominent Baghdadi Jewish family  and Ying Set Lee of the Court of the Dragon Throne . Lee's life was worthy of a Hollywood movie, for whilst he was born into a relatively upper middle class family, they were forced to leave China, during the Japanese occupation. After many adventures Lee became part of  General Slim's 'forgotten army' and after world war II, joined the nascent IDF, fighting in both the war of independence, the Suez campaign, the six days war ,the Yom Kippur war, finding the love of his life and building his business empire in between. 

When the Soviets invaded Britain in 1976, despite middle age, Lee  volunteered to assist the British in their war and rallied the Manchester Jewish and Chinese Communities to fight the Communists. For his services in the war , including saving the Life of key resistance leader Prince Philip, he was created a Baronet , being granted a 3,400 acre country estate and pad in the home counties. Eager to help Britain rebuild after the war he pooled all of his (relatively minor) business interests and maxed out every line of credit he could find and bought the Dudley Steam Boiler Company, which he transformed into a  Interstellar Conglomerate / keiretsu. Now at the age of 103, 26 years older than  the incumbent POTUS Judas Sinn Féin Bidet, albeit  Lee still maintains fluent cognitive functions.

Not that this mattered to the American left- Lee might as well have been a confederate for being a Zionist -imperialist -colonialist and being Jewish (albeit of middle eastern extraction) meant nothing as Jews were as Whoopie Cushion recently told us 'whites' , successful and therefore came with that privilege of race. As for being Chinese it was well known that 'Asian Americans’ were far up the ladder of privilege than other minorities and were de facto 'uncle toms'.  In any case even if Lee was associated with the British Labour Party, this meant nothing as that Labour Party was, for taking Jim Callaghan's lead in fighting against the Soviets, nothing other than a 'Bonapartist' party, rather than a Democratic Socialist one ( Labour  should have  refused to form a coalition with Mrs Thatcher,  surrendered and embraced Soviet Socialism, leading Britain as a Warsaw Pact pupper State, instead Callaghan as Prime Minister refused to do so and the result was millions of deaths,  so the historical revisionist  thinking went). Enough said, the left said. 

 As for Wilberforce - the  English (whom America had fought against as a tyranny) , politically Conservative, devout Christian Evangelical who campaigned and eventually passed legislation banning the slave trade and slavery within the vast British Empire (well before America), this meant nothing to the left . For a start it smacked of 'White Saviour Trope' in which the white male cis gendered patriarch interlopes, patronises  and takes over the role that an African-American or other minority should & could in any way  take . Wilberforce was a Conservative Tory, part of the British Mercantile elite  and a white Evangelical , so  part of the GOP before the GOP was created,  a  Lindsay Graham in a powdered wig &  breeches !  He was nothing other than a privileged white man of the patriarchy taking away the thunder that should have been the purview of the oppressed black slaves- and let us not forget he voted to compensate slave owners for their loss of property!!.So naming a College after Wilberforce, however, well intentioned was just plain wrong and not how to be an "ally".

So as the left coalition came to Washington, the British Embassy went into critical mode. Would they be attacked and now that the police force of the Capitol had been disbanded, would any federal agency help them? 

TBC