The Social Justice warrior’s approach to history is ill-informed, one-sided and anachronistic. There is a refusal to understand or accept that different periods have different values, and that it is the job of the historian to remain impartial. Instead, history is turned into propaganda to achieve some political end and reduced to a branch of ‘grievance studies’ promoted by loud-mouthed activists and their opportunistic hangers-on in academia.

Edward Chancellor, In Defence of Statues (2020)