The West is in the grip of a cultural revolution. Modern-day Red Guards have declared war on the past. The Black Lives Matter protests that erupted in response to the police killing of George Floyd have morphed with staggering speed into a frenzied assault on history, liberty and reason. ..
In these dark, intemperate times, the sins
of the father shall be visited upon the son. Now that even Gladstone is
being targeted, surely the politicians and media people who foolishly
cheered the mob who dragged down Colston in Bristol will reflect on what
they have helped to unleash. Because it’s pretty clear now that this is
not some righteous uprising against racism or the memorialisation of
slave traders.
No, it has become a mad, undemocratic crusade against anything and anyone who offends the politically correct lobby.
These
neo-Maoist efforts to cleanse the public square of people and ideas the
woke elites disapprove of is a continuation of what has been happening
in our universities and elsewhere in society for two decades now. This
mad moment represents the bursting forth into public life of all the
backward, illiberal, identitarian ideas that have been growing and
festering in the academy."
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