How did we get to this point?
A response to the recent riots from Peter Whittle of the New Culture Forum:
“Let me outline a scenario for you and let’s call it how to make a people angry. First you take a people known for their tolerance and fair-mindedness, a people who are amongst the least racist people in the world and you open up their country to unprecedented levels of migration within the space of a decade. You tell those people that this is good for them and that any concerns they might have are simply a product of their own bigotry. You then tell them that it was forever thus, and that their country is in fact a nation of immigrants.”
“Furthermore you then tell them that their history is one of unmitigated evil. You stand by while their monuments and traditions are undermined. You go one further and tell them that they have white privilege, and that this is the root of the world’s problems. At the same time you allow thousands of young men from myriad cultures to enter the country illegally and then you get the people to pay for it. You tell them that diversity is their greatest strength and that to even question this is akin to fascism. You tell them that they would effectively be nothing without unceasing migration.”
“As the people become more frustrated, more angry, you disable their concerns by changing the terminology. You start calling them far right, you then make sure to police them in different ways, you accommodate some demonstrations, you come down hard on others. You arrest some but not others. All the while you tell them that this is for their own good. If you disagree there is no place for you in this new nirvana.”
“Now I don’t need to tell you that this is Britain. In two tier policing, which many of us have been pointing out for years has become visible to millions more during the current violent disorder and indeed Keir’s response to it.”
“But as I hope my scenario makes clear it is not just about policing, the fact is what we have now is a two-tier society, a two-tier government, a two-tier mainstream media, a two-tier liberal establishment, all of them treat our anger, our concerns as proof of our inherent bigotry, our innate badness. We are indeed therefore to be managed and handled.”
“Furthermore the left that controls much of our culture and our institutions never ever give an inch. They are incapable of even considering a let alone discussing that there might be grounds for concern. They concede no ground themselves, they admit no points because to do so would see their entire ideological universe collapse.”
“So the upshot of this past week, especially since Starmer’s lamentable statement, is that millions of us are simply far right, a gigantic slur. Of course I foresee a gradual delegitimising of all non-left opinion, an increase in restrictions on even the blandest socially conservative opinion. There are signs within this government and the establishment of this tendency. I have for example highlighted many times here the effect on free speech of the new definition of islamophobia which will almost certainly be enshrined in law and which will make criticism of Islam almost impossible.”
Read also: Bishops condemn riots and violence towards migrants, Christian Today
Fears for tiers – The British state must be impartial in the face of different outbreaks of criminality by Ben Sixsmith, Artillery Row
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