Revisionist Vikings

The Vikings were diverse invaders, or something:

In the service of that endeavor, according to GB News, British “schoolchildren are to be taught that Vikings were ‘not all white’ and some were Muslim, according to guidance from an educational charity urging tutors to abandon ‘Eurocentric’ ideas.” Now, it may indeed be the case that there were a handful of black (Herschel Walker, amirite? But I kid) and brown and Muslim Vikings, but that doesn’t change the fact that the Vikings were described everywhere they went as blonde white men from the extreme north of Europe, and as Christians beginning around a thousand years ago. Nevertheless, GB News explained that “the Brilliant Club has instructed tutors placed in schools to ditch traditional narratives in favour of a ‘decolonised’ approach that moves subjects away from a Western focus. A guide produced by the charity suggests abandoning the idea that Vikings were a ‘homogenous community of blonde Scandinavians.’” So what is the point of abandoning that idea in teaching British schoolchildren? The agenda here is to accustom these hapless youths to assuming that the massive recent influx of non-white, non-Christian people into Britain is something perfectly normal, taking place according to a pattern that has been seen in Europe many times before. Framing the issue in racial terms, moreover, eases the way to charging foes of this mass migration and cultural transformation with “racism.” And so “tutors are told to consider teaching that Vikings were ‘a very diverse group of people’ with ‘diverse religious beliefs.’” Wow, what a remarkable coincidence! That sounds exactly like the Britain of 2025!

It's the woke version of Vikings...