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Can’t have too many Cooks

Ten reasons why Captain Cook was awesome

20 June 2020

9:00 AM

20 June 2020

9:00 AM

The great ‘Awokening’ is upon us. The mania for seeking racial justice by toppling statues of dead white men has spread to the Antipodes. The statue of Captain James Cook in Gisborne, New Zealand was targeted on Friday with swastikas and inane sloganeering. Pure idiocy. The dropkicks who advocate this rubbish aren’t worthy to hand scrub Cook’s long john gussets after a ninety day sea voyage.

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