Radical chic' and the left's problem with race
White, middle-class left-wingers are still in thrall to age-old prejudices.
Collins, Michael
http://www.spiked-online.com/2022/08/05/radical-chic-and-the-lefts-problem-with-race/
Date Written: 2022-08-05
Publisher: Spiked Online
Year Published: 2022
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX24684
"If you believe that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards", Thomas Sowell has said, "that would have gotten you labelled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago, and a racist today".
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The meaning of racism has come a long way since solely being identified with evidential prejudice and discrimination. It has covered the waterfront: institutionalised racism, unwitting prejudice, systemic racism. It landed on white privilege, which is pretty much where we are now according to figures in the civil service and elsewhere. Everything from art galleries to rambling and knitting circles are racist, even though there are no Klansmen or water cannons preventing anyone from entering or participating. But actual evidence is not needed as proof when projection will suffice. Like Meghan Markle's version of the truth, it is entirely subjective.
"If you believe that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards", Thomas Sowell has said, "that would have gotten you labelled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago, and a racist today".
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