Diversity: Such a Strength, the BBC Has To Enforce It
By Frank Haviland, European Conservative.
When I was a child, the BBC was unquestionably the home of quality television. Who can forget the magical 1984 Christmas treat, “The Box of Delights,” or the comedy genius of “Blackadder” and “Only Fools and Horses”? “Doctor Who” even had my father glued to the screen back in the 1980s.
Times change, however. Thanks to liberal progressivism, quality output at the BBC has been jettisoned in favour of ridiculously exaggerated ethnic quotas (non-whites already constitute 22% of screen roles, despite making up only 12% of the population); BBC ‘Diversity Tsars’ on £1,700 a day, offering up paradoxical aphorisms such as ‘White people are never judged on their race’; the dismissal of white men (no matter how well they perform); the continuous blackwashing of history; and the self-satisfied victimhood paraded by non-whites, forced to suffer the indignity of sharing the office with the few remaining white employees the Beeb has not yet managed to sack.
The pages of The Guardian may cheer the diversity push, but there are predictable consequences to such meddling. And although you’d be hard pushed to find anyone more liberal than my dad, even he had to admit that “Doctor Who” had lost its way. “It’s not as good as it used to be,” he remarked to me once, though he refrained from ascribing the demise to the plot playing second fiddle to the timelord’s sudden black, non-binary gayness.
Much like those strangers to Whitehall, the beach-bound civil service, and the genuflecting Old Bill who couldn’t find a jihadi sympathiser at a Jeremy Corbyn wreath-laying, working at the BBC has become less of a haven for media types and more of a graduate scheme for far-left political activism.
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