David Starkey says activists including Black Lives Matter are ‘trying to destroy white culture’

Historian David Starkey has sparked outrage after claiming that left-wing activists seek to destroy “white culture” and are “jealous” of the Holocaust.

Speaking to the National Conservatism Conference in London, Dr. Starkey that groups like Black Lives Matter were trying to do “exactly what was done to German culture because of Nazism and the Holocaust.”

He said: “The determination is to replace the Holocaust with slavery.

In other words, that’s why Jews are so attacked by the left, there’s basic jealousy. There is jealousy over the moral primacy of the Holocaust and the determination to replace it with slavery.’

In response to his speech, former Labor MP John Mann, the government’s adviser on anti-Semitism, branded the academic “pathetic” and said he used the “Jewish community and the Holocaust” to try to “divide” people.

Dr. Starkey, an expert on Tudor history, has previously been criticized for comments about slavery and the Black Lives Matter movement, including during coverage of the coronation on GB News when he was accused of racism after alleging that Rishi Sunak ‘was not fully grounded in our culture’.

He later denied his comments were racist, saying he referred to the Prime Minister as a “typical international liberal” with no interest in British “values”.

And in 2020, Dr. Starkey was dropped by his publisher and lost two university positions after sparking outrage by claiming that slavery was not genocide because there are “so many damn blacks” in Africa and Britain.

In his speech at the National Conservatism conference on Wednesday, Dr. Starkey criticized Black Lives Matter and denied that the movement cared about black lives at all.

To the applause of the audience, he said: “Movements like Critical Race Theory and Black Lives Matter are not what they claim to be.

They are attempts to destroy the entire legitimacy of the Western political and cultural tradition.

“The idea that they are there to defend black lives is an absurd idea.

“They don’t care about black lives, they only care about the symbolic destruction of white culture. We must be absolutely clear about that.’

Reacting to his speech, former Labor MP John Mann, the government’s adviser on anti-Semitism, branded the academic “pathetic” and said he used the “Jewish community and the Holocaust” to try to “divide people” ‘.

Labor MP Christian Wakeford waded into the queue and labeled Dr. Starkey as ‘deplorable’

He added: “The story of Black Lives Matter is that Western culture and Anglo-American culture in particular are fundamentally morally flawed, they are marked by the mark of Cain and their strategy is to do exactly what the German culture has been affected because of Nazism. and the holocaust.’

During the morning session of the conference, the audience also heard from Nigel Biggar, emeritus professor of theology at the University of Oxford, who claimed that the British Empire had a “mixed” moral record and denied that there was any justification for making reparations to former colonies. .

He said: ‘As a Christian, Burkean conservative, I do not expect perfection in human affairs.

“Those who rule, like those who are ruled, are creatures and sinners, finite and flawed.

Even acknowledging the duty to repent and improve, I expect even the noblest of human endeavors to be marred by limited power, moral stupidity, and culpable failure.

“And so I fear, even loathe, the relentless, inhuman impatience of utopian perfectionists, whether they be Maoists or agents of the Islamic State or progressive squawking social justice fighters.”

Dr. Starkey, an expert on Tudor history, has previously been criticized for comments about slavery and the Black Lives Matter movement, including during coverage of the coronation on GB News when he was accused of racism after alleging that Rishi Sunak ‘was not fully grounded in our culture’

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who Dr. Starkey described as “a man of immense talent and extraordinary skill, but really not fully rooted in our culture”

He added, “Much of what our ancestors accomplished was extraordinary. We have to remember it, we have to admire it, we have to keep it and we have to build on it.”

Professor Biggar, the author of the recent book Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning, also criticized Scottish nationalism as being based on a false ‘Braveheart’ version of history.

He said: ‘If too many Scots, in my opinion, join Scottish independence, they do it, most of them, not because they’ve analyzed the policy.

“They do it in large part because they imaginatively inhabit a vision of the past that is false, a Braveheart past that arouses unwarranted nationalistic outrage and resentment against the English and against Britain today.”

Past speakers at the National Conservatism Conference this week include Secretary of the Interior Suella Braverman (pictured) and Secretary of Leveling Up Michael Gove

Past speakers at the National Conservatism Conference this week include Secretary of the Interior Suella Braverman and Secretary Michael Gove.

Former company secretary Jacob Rees Mogg’s speech was interrupted by an Extinction Rebellion protester on Monday.

The man, dressed in a shirt, tie and blazer, joined Mr Rees-Mogg at the lectern and said to the audience: ‘Ladies and gentlemen, you all look very nice people and I am sure you are wonderfully nice people. are people.

“But I want to draw your attention to some features of fascism.”