[Concluding Part, continued from Part One (here), Part Two (here) and Part Three (here)]
How did something as despotic as the MacPherson Report see the light of day? Its source can be found in the political fashions in progressive “right-on” circles among Western elites in the giddy decade of the 1960’s. In the Western world’s Cultural Revolution of the 1960’s moral absolutes were discarded by intellectual opinion. In their place the emerging dogma of Multiculturalism held all lifestyles, life choices, cultures & religions to be equally valid.
Multiculturalism encourages immigration without assimilation. And some on the New Left seized their chance to recruit unassimilated immigrant groups as allies in their struggle to remould our moral culture. Those immigrant groups were the ones that were most attracted by Britain’s welfare state, and are still the most dependent upon it.
Subsequently declarations of the old Christian morality were first undermined and are now perceived as Hate incidents. All life-styles and cultures are now equal, but some are more equal than others. The life-styles & cultures more equal than others are those of the previously “oppressed” – those of the blacks, gays, feminists, Muslims, gypsies and so on.
These “oppressed” groups are the Sacred Cows in our rulers’ modern mania for multiculturalism, diversity & inclusivity. That mania has its source in Post-Modernism and the Critical Theory of Cultural Marxism, dispositions which have saturated study of the Humanities in our universities since the 1960’s.
New Left graduates from those universities have turned our world upside down after entering the state apparatus, so that acting from the old morality of “muscular Christianity” can now be a matter for the police to investigate. Formerly dominant cultural attitudes – such as those of the old Christian “clean manliness” – are now seen as “politically incorrect” across the board, and can lead to dismissal from employment or prosecution in court.
So when Ashers Bakers of Belfast refused to bake a cake with the slogan on it of “Support Gay Marriage” they were fined in court as a punishment. They were fined for refusing to renounce their biblical belief that same-sex marriage is an abomination and contrary to Christianity. The Christian Ashers bakery was crushed under the iron heel of Gay Power. Would a Muslim bakery be prosecuted in similar circumstances ?
The invention of Hate Crime, a consequence of the New Left’s patronage of Black Power, Gay Power, Feminism, Travellers Rights, Islamic Rights and so on, has lead to inequality before the law. Inequality in favour of the Sacred Cows, at the expense of their presumed “oppressors”.
Those “oppressors” are the “normal” people from the times before the Cultural Revolution in the West, who now arguably suffer from reverse discrimination. Anyone in that “swinish multitude” of perceived “oppressors” can now be threatened with denunciation to our political police service, by any paranoid “sacred cow” anywhere at any time.
Consider the Islamist demonstration in Knightsbridge in London in 2006. Police threatened to arrest passers-by who objected to placards calling for the murder of those who disrespect Islam. Those outside Sacred Cow groups can be arrested on a whim or a perception under the umbrella of a Hate Incident, and get a police record as a Hate offender, guilty of having politically incorrect “reactionary” attitudes. At Knightsbridge the incorrect attitude was “Islamophobia”, which is a fear & loathing of the religion of Islam (as distinct from Muslimophobia, which is a fear & loathing of Muslim people.)
Trotsky’s idea of “Le Racisme” has had had its consequences, as anti-racism has become a trusty tool for Marxists in their campaign to transform Britain into a totalitarian state. The Marxists need a totalitarian state to make their revolution and conquest of power irreversible, hence their support for the Leveson Report’s plan to censor the popular press. Jeremy Corbyn, talking of the press while Labour leader, said that “change is coming”. Keir Starmer, while Director of Public Prosecutions, gave early notice to unfortunate Sun journalists of the nature of that change.
The Cultural Revolution that Cultural Marxists began in the West in the 1960’s, Rudy Dutschke’s [and Robin Oakley’s] “long march through the institutions of power” with Antonio Gramsci as their guide, has lead to the point where anyone can be denounced for the “offence crime” of dissent from political correctness.
That long march through the institutions (especially through state schools where children are indoctrinated) has ensured that opinions seen as right wing & reactionary are condemned as “politically incorrect”. Penalties are now placed upon opinion, penalties that can now damage or end the career of a teacher or any other employee in our state apparatus.
Since MacPherson a “non-crime” such as a verbal dispute can easily be perceived by police as a Hate Incident, and as a sign of political unreliability. A citizen of the former Soviet Union would find all of this very familiar. Where are the ancient safeguards of English common law now, for those perceived as guilty of the offensive thought-crime of political incorrectness ?
As well as politically incorrect hatreds, there are politically correct hatreds. Just as political incorrectness is seen as right wing and reactionary, so political correctness is seen as left wing and progressive (though not as a progressive disease).
Politically correct hatreds are vicious and virulent and they include class hatred of the better-off, hatred of the Western world, hatred of Western capitalism, hatred of Big Oil, hatred of global warming sceptics, hatred of Christianity, and hatred of Israel & the USA.
Another politically correct hatred, the anti-racist hatred of whiteness, is steadily transforming Britain into a police state, in which penalties are placed upon perceived opinion, through the consequences of the MacPherson Report that it inspired.
Shared with my sons with the following note:
“An article I would urge you to hold on to and look back on as you go through your lives
If you’re interested further research
• Cultural Marxism
• The Long March through the institutions of power
• Critical Theory
• The Frankfurt School
to better understand why things are now as they are in the world you now inhabit and can only get worse in your lifetime.
I’m sorry that my generation let your generation and your grandpa’s generation down.
Love Dad”
‘…….my generation let your generation …..down’ Mmmm?
Is it not the case that it is those on the centre right who have not been politically active that have let the side down. Anyone who has engaged in centre right activism need feel no collective guilt for where we are today. They can look themselves in the mirror and say ‘I did my best’.
The success of the political left is mostly down to the fact that they are utterly committed to their ideological beliefs and are prepared to roll their sleeves up and work tirelessly for what they believe in. Until more on the centre right engage in political activism nothing is likely to change.
The Marxists are not enthusiastic armatures, they’re professionals. They know exactly what they’re doing, have been well trained and like the hydra, have many heads, at times pretending to not even be on the same side. (They all know this but we don’t.) Half the time they are laughing at us as they watch their useful idiots assail us with their apparently puerile, illogical arguments. As my mother used to say, “It’s all a communist plot.” Went to school in Rhodesia lived in SA shared an office for 2 years in Johannesburg with the daughter of a Russian general who was released from the old Soviet Union when they were allowing Jews to leave. Was lectured on Soviet life daily. It’s chillingly similar to what I’ve been reading here. We’re not quite there yet. Watch Starmer. He’s dangerous.
amateurs. (LOL. I’m an electrical engineer, who would have thought.)
On one of my visits to the US about 15 years ago we were in a City that was having a celebration called something like Black Student Reunion Week. The problem was there was one lone voice on the radio asking whether it would be acceptable to have a White Student Reunion Week. Silence! Double standards methinks.
Yes My big shock was the daily mail getting away with contempt of court and the abolition of double jeopardy rule in the lawrence affair.
Even more surprising was the widespread acceptance
Well worth revisiting this report. Always thought the phrase ‘institutional racism’ quite chilling and cover for something worse.
Very grateful for this thorough review of the Macpherson Report. The report alarmed me in 1999 and it still does. Let no-one be under any doubt about the part played by the Macpherson Report in furthering the political agenda of the left and its use of political correctness to acheive that end.
Good series. Very concerning. Until we get and actually elect (the hard part) our Trump, Bolsonaro or Orban we are doomed to circle the drain.
MWT Unfortunately every time a general election comes round, whilst there was always quite a lot of support bubbling away under the surface for parties like the UK Independence Party in the past, and more recently The Brexit Party, the majority fell for the usual mantra ‘vote UKIP/Brexit Party and get Labou’r. This has worked very well for the Conservative Party for the past ten years, and as we know they promise the earth and when they get in is is the same old same old. The present Conservative Party is ‘conservative’ in name only, and what we are in need of is a proper conservative party, not the pale imitation that we have in power at the moment. Hopefully things might change by the time the next general election arrives.
This Conservative party was elected to do one particular job; our CLEAN/TOTAL/COMPLETE Brexit, I am sure it is under no illusion that it can survive a GE with any part of the restoration of full SOVEREIGNTY in doubt.
I have said before and some have agreed with me, that Boris can get away with making a horlix of the Chinese Disease, but to make a horlix of Brexit, it’s curtains for the Government and probably the Conservative party forever.
If Johnson delivers a clean Brexit (and I will believe it when I see it) our struggle to change the face of politics has only just begun. As Colin says above we on the centre right must get UKIP or some other party to the forefront NOW to pursue our agenda of common sense politics . We all know that the Lib/LAB/CON are committed to mass immigration and globalisation – Brexit will not change that one iota.
Jake, don’t despair, a new right of centre political party which will promote proper conservative values, ideals and policies will hopefully emerge by the Autumn this year.
I have written letter after letter to ukip leadership. trying to help. None have ever got through. I managed to get thru to Batten on the phone for a few minutes and I believe it affected his approach. However, as long as the nec has executivepower, ukip stays dead and blind .as well as a committee. My career was leading and reviving ailing companies.In size from minnows to world leaders.. So I’m used to it.
Still, they know better . Their mothers love them. And if I didn’t succeed I didn’t get paid
Absolutely agree. That is exactly what happens every damn time.