Nick Cater sent a post in his “Reality Bites” series, called, “Intellectual rearmament”, with the tagline, “The British theologian who gave us the ammunition to defeat the Aboriginal Voice.”
Really? You’d need ammunition to defeat the Aboriginal Voice? Your outlook on life and politics is warfare?
The theologian in question is Professor Nigel Biggar. Wikipedia tells us that Nigel Biggar is a British Anglican priest, theologian, and ethicist. From 2007 to 2022, he was the Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford. His argument is that the history of the British Empire was morally mixed and that guilt around Britain’s colonial legacy may have gone too far. That empire is morally mixed, I agree with and so do the vast majority of historians. The “guilt” question is contested. Personally, I see the “guilt” question is a matter in ‘philosophy of history’, and not the type of empirical history of Professor Biggar. It means also that Cater’s wedge maneuver is fallacious and unintelligent.
Historians and academics widely criticised the [Biggar] project, claiming that it was “attempting to balance out the violence committed in the name of empire with its supposed benefits”.
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