The Decolonisation Agenda: Erasing White History in the Name of Diversity, By Brian Simpson

The recent push by The Brilliant Club, a UK educational charity, to teach schoolchildren that Vikings were "not all white" and included Muslims, is a brazen assault on historical truth and a deliberate attempt to rewrite the past to serve a globalist, anti-white agenda. Their guidance, reported by GB News on June 4, 2025, instructs tutors to abandon "Eurocentric" narratives and present Vikings as a "diverse group" with "diverse religious beliefs," citing Islamic goods in graves as evidence of Viking Muslims. This is not education; it's ideological indoctrination, designed to erase the cultural identity of white societies and suppress resistance to what nationalists call the "Great Replacement." While Viking history is the latest target, this decolonisation crusade, spared on cultures like the Chinese, seeks to dismantle the entire legacy of Western civilisation.

The Brilliant Club's claim that Vikings were a racially and religiously diverse group hinges on flimsy evidence, twisted to fit a modern political narrative. The 2020 University of Cambridge study, cited in the guidance, found genetic diversity in Viking populations from interbreeding with other Europeans and some Eastern groups, such as those from what is now Russia. But this diversity was overwhelmingly within the broader European genetic pool, hardly evidence of "non-white" Vikings or widespread Muslim converts. The presence of Islamic goods in graves, likely acquired through trade across vast Viking networks spanning the Middle East, proves nothing about religious conversion. As X user @ChrisHG aptly noted, "It makes no more sense than if a curry was found in a Viking's grave then claiming he was really Indian!" This leap from artifacts to identity is not scholarship; it's agenda-driven fiction.

Vikings were a Scandinavian people, rooted in Norse culture, mythology, and pagan traditions, with later Christianisation in the 10th and 11th centuries. Historical records, from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle to Norse sagas, describe them as a distinct ethnic group, not a melting pot of global identities. The Brilliant Club's push to portray them as racially diverse and partially Muslim, ignores archaeological, textual, and genetic evidence, choosing "relatability" for modern pupils over truth. This is a deliberate deconstruction of a white, European heritage, meant to convince children that their ancestors' societies were never homogenous, thus undermining any basis for defending cultural identity today.

The Viking revisionism is part of a broader "decolonisation" movement that targets white history while sparing non-Western cultures. The Brilliant Club's guidance, with its "decolonising your course" toolkits, explicitly rejects "Eurocentric" narratives, framing Western history as inherently oppressive. The charity's dismissal of "Anglo-Saxon" as a racially charged term, echoing the University of Nottingham's 2024 decision to scrub it from courses, shows how far this agenda reaches. Terms and histories foundational to British identity are being erased, not because they're inaccurate, but because they affirm a white, European past that globalists find inconvenient.

This selective targeting is glaring. Chinese history, for instance, is not subjected to similar deconstruction. No educational charity demands that Han Chinese dynasties be reimagined as "diverse" or their cultural achievements diluted to appease modern sensibilities. The Terracotta Army isn't recast as a multicultural force; Confucian philosophy isn't branded "Sinocentric." Yet, Western history, Viking, Anglo-Saxon, or otherwise, faces relentless revision to deny its ethnic and cultural distinctiveness. This double standard betrays the true aim: to dismantle white societies' sense of continuity and legitimacy, paving the way for unchecked demographic change.

The "Great Replacement," a term popularised by Renaud Camus, describes the systematic displacement of native European populations through mass migration and cultural erosion. The Brilliant Club's guidance aligns with this by teaching children that white societies never existed as cohesive entities, implying no loss when they're replaced. X posts, like those from @TRHLoxton, decry this as "cultural genocide," arguing that rewriting history to deny white homogeneity is a tactic to silence opposition to migration. With 14,812 Channel crossings in 2025 alone, as reported by Huffington Post UK, and migrants accounting for 16.1% of UK arrests despite being 9% of the population, public fears of replacement are not baseless. The Viking narrative is a psychological weapon, convincing the young that their heritage was always "diverse," so they should accept its dissolution.

The decolonisation agenda, backed by globalist elites, is not about inclusivity but power. The Brilliant Club, placing PhD tutors in 800 schools to reach underprivileged pupils, cloaks its mission in equity, claiming it makes history "relatable." But this is a trojan horse for ideological conformity. By framing Western history as oppressive and in need of "decolonising," it aligns with the goals of figures like George Soros, whose Open Society Foundations have poured billions into NGOs promoting open borders and multiculturalism. In Poland, Karol Nawrocki's 2025 election, celebrated by nationalists as a rejection of Soros-backed liberalism, shows resistance to this agenda. Yet, in Britain, the lack of such defiance allows charities like The Brilliant Club to reshape education unchallenged.

This crusade extends beyond Vikings. The removal of "Anglo-Saxon" from academic discourse, the toppling of statues, and the reframing of British history as a litany of colonial sins, all serve the same purpose: to sever the native population's connection to its past. By denying the ethnic and cultural roots of white societies, decolonisation weakens social cohesion, making resistance to demographic and cultural change feel futile. Meanwhile, non-Western cultures are celebrated for their distinctiveness, revealing a hypocrisy that nationalists argue is deliberate.

The Viking case exposes the flimsiness of the decolonisation narrative. Viking society was not a rainbow coalition; it was a warrior culture rooted in Norse traditions, with trade networks that brought goods, not mass immigration, from distant lands. The Cambridge study's findings of genetic diversity reflect minor interbreeding, not a rejection of Scandinavian identity. Claims of Muslim Vikings rely on speculative interpretations of artifacts, ignoring the dominance of Norse paganism and later Christianity. Historical sources, from runestones to chronicles, show no evidence of significant non-white or Muslim populations in Viking Scandinavia. This revisionism is not scholarship but propaganda, designed to align history with modern multicultural ideals.

Contrast this with the treatment of Chinese history. The Han dynasty's ethnic homogeneity is not questioned, nor is its cultural legacy diluted to make it "relatable" to non-Chinese students. This double standard reveals a targeted assault on white history, meant to delegitimise claims to cultural preservation. As David Betz's collapseology thesis warns, cultural erasure fuels societal fracture, creating "feral cities" where trust and cohesion vanish. The Brilliant Club's guidance, taught to impressionable children, is a step toward this dystopia, convincing the next generation that their heritage is a myth to be discarded.

The Brilliant Club's Viking narrative is a microcosm of a larger war on Western identity. By teaching that white societies were never distinct, it aims to crush resistance to the Great Replacement, where native populations are demographically and culturally supplanted. With Britain's borders breached, 1,194 migrants in a single day, and trust in institutions at 43% (2023 Edelman Trust Barometer), the stakes are existential. Nationalists must fight back by demanding historical truth, rejecting decolonisation's lies, and reasserting cultural pride. Poland's Nawrocki shows the way: a defiant stand against globalist elites. Britain must follow, or its history, and future, will be erased, one "diverse" Viking at a time.

https://www.gbnews.com/news/vikings-non-white-muslim-eurocentric-ideas

"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.

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".

Instead, tutors are told to consider teaching that Vikings were "a very diverse group of people" with "diverse religious beliefs".

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

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The guidance urges tutors to consider that "some Vikings became practising Muslims" due to Islamic goods being found in the graves of some Vikings, thought to have been attained by trade.

The charity states there is an "imperative to provide material to students that they can relate to and connect with".

The last large-scale study of Viking DNA, conducted by the University of Cambridge in 2020, suggested that diversity in Scandinavian genetics came from other parts of Europe and what is now Russia.

The guidance is intended to make lessons more "relatable" for pupils.

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Chris HG

As I said elsewhere on this thread. Their fanatical pursuit of the ideological agenda of rewriting history makes them take leave of their senses to such an extent they think it's perfectly fine to lie to children in the course of their education. It's not! As for asserting that because Islamic artifacts have been found in a Vikings grave means they were Muslim, that is nonsense. It makes no more sense than if a curry was found in a Vikings grave then claiming that proves he was really Indian!

The charity's approach contrasts a "decolonised" narrative with what it describes as a "Eurocentric and colonised" version of history.

Its guidance stresses that making courses more relatable is not simply about "adding token black figures into courses".

The Brilliant Club runs a scholarship programme that places PhD students in more than 800 schools to tutor underprivileged pupils and help them get to university.

The charity has created two "decolonising your course" toolkits to help tutors with the courses they deliver.

The last large-scale study of Viking DNA, conducted by the University of Cambridge in 2020, suggested that diversity in Scandinavian genetics came from other parts of Europe and what is now Russia

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The guidance forms part of broader "decolonising" work that seeks to move away from Western accounts of history and science.

This approach has extended to terminology controversies, with the guide noting the "controversial nature of the term 'Anglo-Saxon'".

It states: "This was not the term the people then used to refer to themselves" and adds that the term has "a long history of being used in a racially charged manner".

In 2024, the University of Nottingham removed "Anglo-Saxon" from its leading course over similar concerns."