The culture war will be an election issue, and the Tories can’t allow the woke to win
by Charles Moore, Telegraph:
The party is hamstrung by its own role in promoting an ideology that threatens the Western way of life.
[…] But the biggest error goes way beyond banking. You see it in the Civil Service, major corporations, universities, the National Trust, museums, mainstream churches, theatre, NGOs, regulators, the media, and many more. Even the RAF wears its Stonewall badge with pride. The error is the belief – or, in some cases, the pretence – that all this stuff is not political.
It is intensely political (though not necessarily party political). Mixed with the ideology, it is true, one can find admirable elements of ordinary goodwill – encouraging ethnic minority employees, for example, or more consideration for the needs of women with children in the workplace. But the woke movement as a whole is a determined assault on the Western way of doing things.
Organisations like Black Lives Matter promote the idea that white people are automatically bad. Templates about identifying and reporting racism get established officially in universities. These attempt to crush free speech by defining offence as one person’s perception. They often redefine racism as something of which only white people can be guilty.
Curriculums are replaced and statues removed because they are “colonial”. The operations of Stonewall cause fear among many women who feel the very definition of their sex is being undermined. Climate pledges required by many large corporations arise from a green world-view which is fiercely anti-capitalist. There are growing attempts to prevent investment in oil, gas and defence equipment.
Any employer who recruits diversity, inclusion or sustainability officers should realise such people often see it as a point of principle to bite the hand that feeds them. They are there, after all, to find fault, not to serve the customer.
Broadly speaking, these trends are unpopular with the general public. Most people want fairness, but resent being made to take the knee, both literally and metaphorically, to doctrines hostile to their country, their culture and their prosperity. The more they find out about what is going on, the less they like it.
As the next general election approaches, the parties debate internally how to address these questions.
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