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Dear Laurie et
al. at
Thinking
Allowed, BBC
Radio 4
In discussing the "Role of Social
Class within the Identities and Achievement of British
Chinese Pupils" last Wednesday, you and Dr Louise Archer equated racial
stereotyping with "racism". No wonder I and so many of my
fellow British natives are in a continual state of anxiety!
Since we are all incurable "racists" according to this
definition, which you are far from being alone in imposing
on us (and on yourselves, as well, no doubt).
Millions of years of evolution
have programmed us, Earth's Greatest Ape, to distinguish
strongly and emotionally between members of our OWN group
and those who belong to OTHER groups. Damning this natural
inclination as "racist" (which, according to my dictionary,
means the hate of other races and belief in the superiority
of one's own race) is madness, not just because it is
untrue, but also because it causes people to suppress their
feelings, which in the subconscious are capable of causing
ugly, irrational - perhaps genuinely racist - behaviour.
False accusations of "racism" are
continually being used as a club to suppress natural
feelings of difference and identity, as well as opposition
to overalienation through mass immigration. I'd like you to
put your club down, Laurie, and discuss this on Thinking
Allowed. It is an exceedingly important matter, in
urgent need of open and fearless discussion, since I see
clear parallels with Communist Russia and medieval
Christianity, where opponents of the dominant (and
dominating) ideology were silenced and the population cowed
by suspicions and accusations of "counter-revolution" or
"heresy". Now it's "racism". The socio-psychology of this
phenomenon is also very interesting, of course, if you want
to keep it purely academic.
I'm sure that many who wield the
club of "anti-racism" mean well (i.e are not, consciously,
at least, just defending their own niches in the
socio-economic order), just as those who wielded the club
against "counter-revolution" and "heresy" often did, in the
belief that they were on the side of social "progress",
opposing the forces of pre-revolutionary
feudalism/capitalism, of paganism or disbelief in the one
true religion, and now of fascism and racism.
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