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 […]