by Brendan O’Neill, spiked
The elites’ narcissistic fear of being thought of as racist is causing untold harm to ordinary Brits.
There’s one surefire way to know if your belief system is a bad one: it endangers life. If your ideology imperils other people, on the foul grounds that your virtue counts for more than their safety, then it is a morally unfit one. We can now say this, beyond a shadow of a doubt, about wokeness. It prizes its own preening credo more highly than it does the life and limb of everyday citizens. Just consider the grim case of Valdo Calocane.
The media call him ‘the Nottingham killer’. On 13 June 2023 he committed a crime so dreadful that Nottingham still reels from it. In the feverish grip of psychosis, he knifed to death the 19-year-old students, Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, and 65-year-old school janitor Ian Coates. He severely injured three others, too. He was later found guilty of manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility and sentenced to indefinite confinement in a high-security hospital.
If you thought this case couldn’t get any worse, brace yourself. Yesterday we discovered a new and terrible truth: Calocane was once freed by mental-health workers because they feared being thought of as racist if they detained him. Convinced there were ‘too many young black men in custody’, they let him out, whereupon he committed more offences, eventually including the savage destruction of three precious lives. Clearly the inner virtue of these overlords of public health is more sacred than the welfare of the masses.