BBC Wokos Don’t Dig King Tut!
BBC can’t keep their toxic wokery out of anything…
.
.
…not even Egypt’s Valley of the Kings!
Most of us who take any interest in archaeology know that Tut-Ankh-Amun’s tomb was discovered in 1922…
.
….by the American Howard Carter, funded by the British Lord Carnarvon.
Now the BBC (‘Travel Show’ 22/12) will only concede that Carter was ‘widely credited’ with the great discovery.
Their travelling flunkey told us so!
But off the hack goes to meet the Abdul Rasul family, who claim their ancestor beat Carter to it…
.
.
….because his donkey fell into a hole!
Then the geezer told Carter he’d found some rocks.
.
.
Indeed, without the local diggers, the Yank and the Lord wouldn’t have gotten far.
…
Columbus
.
But neither would any distinguished sea-farers without their crews…
.

…but do we credit Columbus’s sailors ( or Leif Ericson’s!) with finding the New World?
Hardly.
All due respect to all the fellahin involved in the dig a century ago. I’m sure all their descendants have intriguing yarns to spin.
…
.
However, back in Luxor, Ms. Heba is an ‘amazing story-teller,’ according to the Beeb-Berk.
Heba’s a head-scarfed Egyptian lady with an axe to grind, who moans that ‘we are totally written out‘ of the glorious excavation.
.
.
Hogwash, say I.
We all of us knew the hired Egyptian help was essential, as in any such project, but the stars, naturally, were the man who put up the money to pay them…
…..
Carter and Carnarvon
0000000
…and the guy who ran the show.
Might it be not unreasonable to assign a lesser role to the labourers, and the bloke whose donkey stumbled?
But Heba rambles plaintively, egged on by the Beeb-Berk, how the poor uninformed tourists know ‘nothing on the many layers of Egyptian history....
….AND – WAIT FOR IT!
‘….the colonial narrative..’
Oh, wokey-cokey-cokey!
PS. If you use the Search Box, over to the right, you’ll find that horticulture, botany and computer courses are under attack by ‘decolonising’ wokers.
Among others…but archeology too?
Ooops, it’s already been targetted…
Racialising Hadrian’s Wall? MUST Be BBC!
.
Mort 12:37 on December 24, 2022 Permalink |
It’s called decolonization but it’s really just a global movement to minimize the gigantic Western contribution to learning in every branch of human knowledge.
LikeLike