Identity politics means some are more equal than others
by David Kurten, TCW:
In the topsy turvy world of identity politics, it seems that not a week goes by without a new class of victim being identified. This week it is the turn of left-handed people. Apparently, the world is structured for right-handed people who need to check their privilege, and now all employers and educational establishments must make action plans to ensure that, for example, there are more left-handed desks to combat the unconscious bias and discrimination perpetrated by the privileged right-handed majority.
Most people will rightly dismiss this as the rantings of a sadly misguided product of our once glorious Western education system, but similar ideology is trotted out almost routinely in the wake of real criminal and even terrorist attacks if the perpetrator has a so-called protected characteristic.
In the wake of the Westminster terrorist attack it wasn’t long before some media outlets were claiming that mass murderer and Islamist terrorist Khalid Masood was the real victim because he allegedly once suffered from having a conversation with ‘racial overtones’. This was not just a further injury to the families of those murdered, but an incomprehensible, unfeeling idiocy.
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