The bankruptcy of anti-racism
Latest race rows undermine manufactured narratives
Another day, another race row, this time in Australia. A country accused by some of its own people of being one of the most “racist” on the world, which makes you wonder why they want to bring more people to this country.
Except for one thing. Spencer Leniu is of Samoan origin. Sam Kerr is of Anglo-Indian origin. In fact Sam Kerr would supposedly be the perfect poster child for a “new” and “progressive” Australia - she’s a woman of colour, and LGBT on top of that. And now she stands accused, wait for it, of racism.
The UK itself is no stranger to moral panics on race, as the Marcus Rashford episode shows. And it coincided with Canada’s own meltdown in 2021 on residential schools which led to attacks on churches and statues. The result was a deeply unpleasant climate of witchhunts, emotional blackmail and heightened suspicions of one another. Who on earth benefits from that?
Like the George Floyd hysteria of 2020, there was no way it was a spontaneous, grassroots effort. It was a highly coordinated effort by the enforcers of the moral regime, working through academia, celebrities and influencers. The high priests of anti-racism then failed their “duty” on October 7 2023, when anti-Semitism exploded globally, and they did nothing to support or protect Jewish communities.
Keeping race relations in the spotlight is the lifeblood of an entire industrial complex. Australian voters last year decisively rejected their blackmail in a referendum. There is a growing backlash against it all. But moreover it signals the beginning of the end of a moral regime predicated on “anti-racism” and “anti-racism” in force since World War II, or more accurately since the 60s.
This is a religion we are talking about, where even if transgressions of its pieties does not result in legal sanction, will instead result in social sanction. But its pieties are looking ever more shaky now, even in countries like Australia where zealous enforcers are not in short supply.