Why is the Church of England so horrified by ‘whiteness’?
by Michael Deacon, Telegraph:
The CoE’s adoption of trendy woke jargon has become a pitiful embarrassment.
Perhaps the time has come to rename the Church of England. These days, it would make more sense to call it the Church of America. Because, of late, it seems to have become utterly fixated with parroting American ideas about racial politics.
First, we read that the CoE hopes to raise £1billion to atone for slavery. Baffled parishioners must have wondered what possible link there could be between their village church and the transatlantic slave trade. Is the organist an indentured servant? Does the verger run a sugar plantation?
But there was more to come. Next, we read that CoE parishes have been told to “embed racial justice” by drawing up “race action plans”. And now, we find a growing determination to tackle the supposed problem of “whiteness”.
Last month, a CoE diocese advertised for an “Anti-Racist Practice Officer”, whose job would be to “deconstruct whiteness”. And at the weekend just gone, the Archdeacon of Liverpool – who is herself white – announced that she was “anti-whiteness”.
Oddly enough, this boast was not greeted with universal admiration. Indeed, quite a lot of people seemed to find it offensive. So she hastily sought to clarify her position. “‘Whiteness’ does not refer to skin colour per se,” she explained, “but to a way of viewing the world where being white is seen as ‘normal’ and everything else is considered different or lesser.”
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