**Populism and the Social History of British Anti-Slavery**
Ryan Hanley
“_In the United Kingdom, the abolition of the slave trade and slavery holds a special place in national identity narratives, largely thanks to over a century of celebratory historiography, from the mid-nineteenth century to about the mid-twentieth. While this “Whig tradition” has long since fallen from favor among historians, it enjoys an uncanny afterlife among a certain cross section of right-wing populists._”
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2025/04/08/populism-and-the-social-history-of-british-anti-slavery/.
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Slavery #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #Populism #RightWing @histodon @histodons
Yale University Press · Populism and the Social History of British Anti-Slavery - Yale University PressRyan Hanley— You’ll see it in the comments section of every online news article about British slavery and its legacies. “Actually, we were the ones who first abolished slavery” or... READ MORE
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She and Macedo spoke to the Guardian by video call. The Princeton University professors both consider themselves left-leaning, and the book grew out of research Macedo was doing on the ways progressive discourse gets handicapped by a refusal to engage with conservative or outside arguments. “Covid is an amazing case study in groupthink and the effects of partisan bias,” he said.
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The text of the article shown is: Policy learning seemed to be short-circuited during the pandemic,” Lee said. “It became so moralized, like: ‘We’re not interested in looking at how other people are [responding to the pandemic], because only bad people would do it a different way from the way we’re doing’.”
She and Macedo spoke to the Guardian by video call. The Princeton University professors both consider themselves left-leaning, and the book grew out of research Macedo was doing on the ways progressive discourse gets handicapped by a refusal to engage with conservative or outside arguments. “Covid is an amazing case study in groupthink and the effects of partisan bias,” he said.
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Populism 
Can just see collective face-palming at Keidanren and METI
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