Some hatreds are more evil than others
by Andrew Devine, TCW:
ONE of the dominant trends in western contemporary culture is to reflect upon our historical misdeeds in relation to European colonialism. This is partly driven by the media’s obsession with examples of racism, real and imagined, past and present, in which white majority societies mistreat their various ethnic minority populations. We see these themes playing out in controversies regarding statues of historical figures such as the slave-trader Edward Colston and allegations made by the former Yorkshire cricketer Azeem Rafiq.
However, despite our culture’s incessant soul-searching and excessive self-flagellation, we get zero credit from the woke cultural establishment which dominates the media, publishing and entertainment industry that we have made any progress in terms of race relations. Walk into any high street bookshop and ask them to point you to their ‘white people suck’ section. Once there, you can browse a selection of titles including White Fragility, by the white author Robin DiAngelo, Don’t Touch My Hair by the half-white privately educated Irish writer Emma Dabiri, who relives the childhood trauma of white Irish kids admiring her Afro hair, and Reni Eddo-Lodge’s Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race.
Without denying that incidents of racism directed at ethnic minorities still occur, it is perplexing after America elected a two-term black president and Britain’s current government is the most ethnically diverse in its history that the media and publishing industry can take seriously any author who posits the idea that white supremacy is a problem in English speaking countries where genuine far-Right parties have very little support.
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