from spiked
Marie Kawthar Daouda on why the woke assault on Western history does nothing for ethnic minorities.
In the summer of 2020, the Black Lives Matter movement declared war on the past. Statues were toppled in a year-zero frenzy. Institutions fell over themselves to apologise for the misdeeds of the past, including those committed by men who’ve been dead for centuries. Western history, we were told, was one long story of oppression and racism. The present would have to be ‘decolinised’ and cleansed of its ‘whiteness’.
Marie Kawthar Daouda – lecturer at Oriel College, Oxford – joined Brendan O’Neill on The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss the legacy of BLM, the statue wars and her new book, Not Your Victim: How Our Obsession With Race Entraps and Divides Us. What follows is an edited version of that conversation. You can watch the full thing here.