By Andrea Williams, Christian Concern.
Bodycam footage of Henry Nowak’s final moments has shaken the nation. Andrea Williams, chief executive of Christian Concern, argues that the world is realising the damage caused by cultural Marxism.
For decades, cultural Marxism has run rampant through our institutions.
This week, the world watched an officer dragging Henry Nowak across the floor as he died. The police officer, in the moment, failed to take seriously Henry’s claim to have been stabbed. He was needlessly handcuffed. His murderer stood over him, complaining of a swollen eye. He died on the floor.
It was the moment that the world woke up to the danger of cultural Marxism.
In significant moments like this, the story often becomes larger than the facts themselves. None of us can fully know the thoughts or motivations of every person involved.
But we know that in the 999 call and when the officers arrived, Vickrum Digwa weaponised claims of racism against his victim. And we know that for decades, concerns about political correctness have prevented police officers and other officials from doing the right thing, with devastating effects.
It would take saint-like levels of faith for someone to believe that the claims of racism had no negative effect on the officers’ response at the scene.
This week, many have finally lost their faith in the grandmaster of cultural Marxism, Gramsci.
A pyramid of oppression and the hierarchy of rights
I have long lamented the way in which white men in our nation have been portrayed endlessly as the oppressor. Anyone who falls outside this ‘dominant’ group is assumed to be a victim of that oppression in some way.
The same is true of other characteristics: if you are Christian, heterosexual, or ‘cisgender’, you are often presumed to stand at the top of a cultural pyramid, benefiting from and perpetuating the disadvantage of those deemed to be below you.
The great success of cultural Marxism has been to march through the institutions, embedding attitudes and policies that invert this so-called pyramid of oppression, intentionally creating biases to correct what is seen as inequity. Intersectionality meant that disparate groups like Muslims and LGBTQ+ saw a common oppressor in Christians and could ally against them.