Yep – and we can add “fascist” and “genocidal” to the growing list of words woke progressives have emptied of meaning by screaming them at everything. The tragedy is that all this erupted just as colour-blindness was becoming the social norm. In fact, as others have noted, it created a supply-and-demand problem for progressives, which is why they began confecting new “injustices” and the broader woke movement, and ended up sowing an economy of grievance-hustlers and taboo-peddlers in the process. All so predictable and avoidable.
All great stuff of course. But surely the most fundamental of characteristics of early groups of humans was being "tribal" - distrusting outsiders as competition or threat, or exploiting them in return where opportunity arose. So if being "tribal" is pretty natural - "we can be trusted, outsiders are an unknown quantity" - that is kind of another word for being "racist", isn't it? Except that I do appreciate that the neglected words of MLK need to be refreshed, re-praised and re-instituted in our social narratives, and also it seems to me to be perfectly possible to have a feeling of belonging to, and being proud of, your own tribe, while simultaneously recognizing how stupidly inadequate it is to judge any other "tribe" on some kind of generalized, automatic assumption of superiority, or on the irrelevance of their skin colour. Can we all get better at being a bit sophisticated about taking into account history, instinct, intellect, and evolved and civilized ways of looking at the rest of the world? (And that doesn't mean you can't say that one level and type of civilization is clearly "better" than another, and that you can't import massive numbers of people from less-developed societies without damaging your own.)
‘Systemic racism’ is a depressing and corrosive concept to anyone with (genuinely) liberal beliefs, because it suggests that white people are racist whether they want to be or not. Just as Marxists believe that people are defined by their class identity. But despite the twisting and overuse of the term racist, I believe it is still a ‘nuclear’ term to use in debate in the UK. That’s why we now have an entry-level term for racist - ‘divisive’ - which is now often used in the House of Commons about people like Shabana Mahmood who dare to blurt out the truth.
2 days ago, I asked AI what is the difference between racism, colourism and ethnic rivalry. Many Indians are apparently colourist, Sudanese and DRC fighters engage motivated by ethnic rivalry and the rest of us are racist - apparently. It’s all so confusing for those of us who just want to walk through the world in our mixed marriages and mixed friendships.
There is now also data that his popularity is pumped by fake accounts...Now who might have an interest in further destabilizing the West and the US with this garbage...
All grimly predictable. I vividly recall sitting in a pub discussing identity politics with some fellow activists 25 years ago - working class community politics of a leftish bent - and us all agreeing that the middle-class Left's obsession with Multiculturalism would lead not just to a backlash but to broader racially divisive outcomes. What we couldn't have predicted then, is that what Gareth Roberts calls The Rubbish would emerge 15 years later in all of our institutions and - instigated by the hysterical response to the death of a drugged-up criminal across the pond in 2020 - revive both 'racism' and racism. In the 1980s and '90s yer actual racism was confined largely to a political swamp occupied solely by the BNP and its splinters, today it's commonly found everywhere: on the Left and the Right, but in spades on the Left, currently exhibited through discourses of 'white supremacy' and of anti-Semitism. 'Racism' - then largely confined to black nationalist narratives and the nuttier fringes of academia - is now, too, to be found everywhere, again predominantly on the Left. The racists of the Right, like Fuentes, are self-aware of their racism; those on the Left are too busy declaring 'racism' to recognise their own racism.
Minorities are abused by the majority. Overtime the two blend as one and they will abuse the next minority .
After WW2 , the Jamaican immigrants to the UK were abused. Today they are more accepted, but in turn are not too happy with the Indians who arrived in the latter 60’s.Today, they are all combined in their dislike for illegals. The same applies to Europeans who go and live in societies where they are the minority. Southern Africa for example.
Yep – and we can add “fascist” and “genocidal” to the growing list of words woke progressives have emptied of meaning by screaming them at everything. The tragedy is that all this erupted just as colour-blindness was becoming the social norm. In fact, as others have noted, it created a supply-and-demand problem for progressives, which is why they began confecting new “injustices” and the broader woke movement, and ended up sowing an economy of grievance-hustlers and taboo-peddlers in the process. All so predictable and avoidable.
All great stuff of course. But surely the most fundamental of characteristics of early groups of humans was being "tribal" - distrusting outsiders as competition or threat, or exploiting them in return where opportunity arose. So if being "tribal" is pretty natural - "we can be trusted, outsiders are an unknown quantity" - that is kind of another word for being "racist", isn't it? Except that I do appreciate that the neglected words of MLK need to be refreshed, re-praised and re-instituted in our social narratives, and also it seems to me to be perfectly possible to have a feeling of belonging to, and being proud of, your own tribe, while simultaneously recognizing how stupidly inadequate it is to judge any other "tribe" on some kind of generalized, automatic assumption of superiority, or on the irrelevance of their skin colour. Can we all get better at being a bit sophisticated about taking into account history, instinct, intellect, and evolved and civilized ways of looking at the rest of the world? (And that doesn't mean you can't say that one level and type of civilization is clearly "better" than another, and that you can't import massive numbers of people from less-developed societies without damaging your own.)
‘Systemic racism’ is a depressing and corrosive concept to anyone with (genuinely) liberal beliefs, because it suggests that white people are racist whether they want to be or not. Just as Marxists believe that people are defined by their class identity. But despite the twisting and overuse of the term racist, I believe it is still a ‘nuclear’ term to use in debate in the UK. That’s why we now have an entry-level term for racist - ‘divisive’ - which is now often used in the House of Commons about people like Shabana Mahmood who dare to blurt out the truth.
2 days ago, I asked AI what is the difference between racism, colourism and ethnic rivalry. Many Indians are apparently colourist, Sudanese and DRC fighters engage motivated by ethnic rivalry and the rest of us are racist - apparently. It’s all so confusing for those of us who just want to walk through the world in our mixed marriages and mixed friendships.
There is now also data that his popularity is pumped by fake accounts...Now who might have an interest in further destabilizing the West and the US with this garbage...
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All grimly predictable. I vividly recall sitting in a pub discussing identity politics with some fellow activists 25 years ago - working class community politics of a leftish bent - and us all agreeing that the middle-class Left's obsession with Multiculturalism would lead not just to a backlash but to broader racially divisive outcomes. What we couldn't have predicted then, is that what Gareth Roberts calls The Rubbish would emerge 15 years later in all of our institutions and - instigated by the hysterical response to the death of a drugged-up criminal across the pond in 2020 - revive both 'racism' and racism. In the 1980s and '90s yer actual racism was confined largely to a political swamp occupied solely by the BNP and its splinters, today it's commonly found everywhere: on the Left and the Right, but in spades on the Left, currently exhibited through discourses of 'white supremacy' and of anti-Semitism. 'Racism' - then largely confined to black nationalist narratives and the nuttier fringes of academia - is now, too, to be found everywhere, again predominantly on the Left. The racists of the Right, like Fuentes, are self-aware of their racism; those on the Left are too busy declaring 'racism' to recognise their own racism.
Minorities are abused by the majority. Overtime the two blend as one and they will abuse the next minority .
After WW2 , the Jamaican immigrants to the UK were abused. Today they are more accepted, but in turn are not too happy with the Indians who arrived in the latter 60’s.Today, they are all combined in their dislike for illegals. The same applies to Europeans who go and live in societies where they are the minority. Southern Africa for example.