In The Woke University, Joanna Williams argues that this institutional model has replaced educational goals with a mission to inculcate particular values
Who needs ‘intersectionality’?
Public institutions and businesses are increasingly signing up to the idea of ‘intersectionality’, promising a sensitive appreciation of difference and diversity. But far from being progressive, this concept establishes a static and divisive hierarchy of victimhood, argues Philip Hammond Read on…
Who needs ‘intersectionality’?
by Philip Hammond on behalf of DDU academics The concept of ‘intersectionality’ seems omnipresent today. Human Resources departments in public institutions and businesses miss no opportunity to trumpet its significance. HR Magazine emphasises ‘the importance of intersectionality in HR’, while Personnel Today warns that failure to take proper account of intersectionality could mean that ‘organisations […]
Debate & Disinformation Regarding the CRED Report
In his careful and thorough review of the hasty, partisan and unreasoned criticisms of the Commission for Racial and Ethnic Disparities Report, Damian Counsell, writing in Quillette, concludes: The commissioners’ hope that public clarification might encourage their critics to be more careful and fair-minded is almost certainly forlorn. For a particular kind of anti-racist, there […]
Do Today’s Anti-Racist Programmes Bring Back Racial Thinking?
Joanna Williams’ report for Civitas asks whether contemporary anti-racist programmes being adopted and implemented in Britain’s public institutions and private organisations do much to improve the lives of ethnic minorities. Do they end systemic racism, or do they reintroduce racial thinking that reduces and simplifies human lives and experience? By almost all statistical measures, Joanna […]
St Jarel of Woke and why and eye for an eye won’t do
Considering two recent cases of offensive tweets regarding Captain Sir Tom Moore, Nick Buckley , who has personal experience of twitter amplified intolerance, argues that offensive comments should not be criminalised and offenders shouldn’t lose their jobs. Freedom of speech must be a universal value, otherwise it becomes an elite privilege: Jarel […]
The Neoracists
John McWhorter at Persuasion describes America’s third-wave anti-racists as ‘millennials with lattes’. A better description still is ‘The Elect’. This appellation indicates the smugness and danger this thinking represents as its adherents come to occupy high-status institutional positions and influence educational agendas: Talking of Antiracist Baby, I am especially dismayed at the idea of this […]
Trevor Phillips: BLM uses race as ‘battering ram to change society’
Trevor Phillips tells Andrew Neil that Black Lives Matter ‘don’t really care very much about whether black people are advanced or not’, and explains the problems with ‘critical race theory’. Watch the interview from Spectator TV
The Dangerous Logic of Anti-Racism
Tomiwa Owolade at Unherd considers how today’s anti-racists have little to say about anti-semitism or other forms of racism because they are obsessed with ‘structures’ and statistical differentials in outcomes: Structural inequalities might be a consequence of race, but this doesn’t necessarily mean that they are. If these outcomes were necessarily because of race, this […]
The ‘Anti-Racism’ Movement Is Sowing Deeper Divisions
Andy Doyle, comedian and founding signatory of DDU, argues that today’s so-called anti-racists are based on an illiberal notion masquerading as a liberal one: The most damaging aspect of this mindset is that it renders impossible the task of rooting out racism. Falsely assuming that racism is everywhere, and insisting that people fundamentally opposed […]