I'm starting to doubt whether or not England is a real country.
They may have been at one point, but with stories like this, I just don't see any evidence of a functioning nation left.
And that's exactly the way they want it.
Paintings of the beautiful English countryside is triggering for lefties and, they fear, radicalizing for right-wingers. So Cambridge is warning visitors to the university's Fitzwilliam institution that seeing rural paintings can stir "dark emotions."
The Fitzwilliam Museum has suggested that paintings of the British countryside evoke dark "nationalist feelings".
The museum, owned by the University of Cambridge, has undertaken an overhaul of its displays, in a move that its director insisted was not "woke"...
The new signage states that pictures of "rolling English hills" can stir feelings of "pride towards a homeland".
It's not "woke" to warn patrons that paintings of fields, and grass, and flowers, and quaint country homes might stir up "dark" emotions and feelings of nationalism and pride for one's country.
Apparently it's "dark" and "scary" to promote feelings of national pride.
However, in a gallery displaying a bucolic work by Constable, visitors are informed that "there is a darker side" to the "nationalist feeling" evoked by images of the British countryside.
It states that this national sentiment comes with "the implication that only those with a historical tie to the land have a right to belong".
BLOOD AND SOIL! IT'S HITLER ALL OVER AGAIN! BE AFRAID!
These paintings are worse than Hitler!
Houses! Churches! People living a rural life! These are all "dark" and scary and promote nationalism!
A sign for the Nature gallery states: "Landscape paintings were also always entangled with national identity.
"The countryside was seen as a direct link to the past, and therefore a true reflection of the essence of a nation.
"Paintings showing rolling English hills or lush French fields reinforced loyalty and pride towards a homeland.
"The darker side of evoking this nationalist feeling is the implication that only those with a historical tie to the land have a right to belong."
And this is bad because...?
Yeah, but don't you dare think they're being woke! They're just being inclusive.
No, sir: Nothing woke going on here!
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