It is illustrated perfectly by this news story here.So a Mexican restaurant at a British university hands out sombreros to students as a “celebration of Mexican culture” (according to none other than the restaurant’s general manager). In our truly bizarre politically-correct culture, this is condemned as “racist.”This is an utter abuse of the term “racist,” and an insult to people who have genuinely experienced real racism.What is racism, if it is to have any coherent, sensible and defensible...
Read More »On the Dehumanization of Immigrants
Britain is in the grip of a worrying trend. Our own Prime Minister compared migrants in Calais to insects when he called them a “swarm”. Meanwhile, internet comment sections relating to the refugees are filled with hatred and venom. Asylum seekers are referred to as “invaders”, and the trolls encourage the British authorities to shoot them, to machine gun them, and hang them on meat hooks. This dehumanization of immigrants frightens me. Not simply because dehumanization of large groups of...
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