Deserved
Are White British people worried about the increasing number of people with non-European ancestry living in the United Kingdom? Why or why not?
I would say ‘yes’. Though the debate — if there is one — is so toxic that people cannot express themselves openly, which is driving the debate underground.
Eric Kaufmann, the mixed-race professor of politics at the University of London, has claimed that Brexit may have happened as a masked protest against non-white immigration. It is less politically taboo to criticize mainly white immigration from the EU, so a good number of people voted Leave as a protest against immigration — even though most non-white migrants come from outside of Europe.
Then there is one opinion poll in 2009 in London that showed as many as 40 per cent of the white population would vote for the BNP (see The British Dream, David Goodheart, pg. 79,80). I don’t actually think this means a large minority of white Londoners are racist — I think it is a cry for help. London’s demographics have changed rapidly and in a pattern similar to conquered cities in European history. And I imagine most Londoners did not vote for such a transformation at the ballot box.
Then there are the projections. One (disputed) figure from a professor over at Migration Watch predicts that white Britons will be outnumbered by non-whites by 2066. The white British population declined from 86% to 80% over a 10 year period, from 2001 to 2011 — a pretty sizeable change. What’s interesting is in that period the ethnic population crossed the ‘10 per cent tipping point’, a sociological phenomenon in which ethnic interests begin to greatly affect the majority. Evidence for this is the phenomenal growth in talks of ‘diversity’ and the explosion and over-representation of non-whites (mainly blacks) in popular culture over the past decade.
I don’t think the anxieties have a purely racial basis. The anxiety comes from the current zeitgeist of masochist ideologies that constantly undermine Britain and the West, with an obsessive focus on its past sins — colonialism, slavery, and racism. Joining these anxieties is the desire to move past the nation-state, along with a growing acceptance of racism towards whites (using the term ‘white’ as a derogatory; referring to red-faced white people as “gammon”).
There is also the desire for stability in a multicultural community. And that in part requires re-writing the past. We’ve already seen this on BBC programmes that portray the Anglo-Saxons as a multicultural pot of Chinese, blacks, whites and Asians. Many people in Great Britain probably feel their identity is being stripped away from them. But identity is very important, and the nation is an extension of the self; a part of that identity. Take away a person’s identity, and you take away everything they have.
There is also the sense that only the West is partaking in the multicultural experiment. In 100 years, China will still be the ethnostate that it is, India will still be India, likewise with Africa. But what about Great Britain, with its fragile ecosystem of culture and dwindling ethnic groups with low fertility rates? All of these questions generate anxiety that cannot be uttered, questioned, or explored without immediately being compared to Hitler.
I would say ‘yes’. Though the debate — if there is one — is so toxic that people cannot express themselves openly, which is driving the debate underground.
Eric Kaufmann, the mixed-race professor of politics at the University of London, has claimed that Brexit may have happened as a masked protest against non-white immigration. It is less politically taboo to criticize mainly white immigration from the EU, so a good number of people voted Leave as a protest against immigration — even though most non-white migrants come from outside of Europe.
Then there is one opinion poll in 2009 in London that showed as many as 40 per cent of the white population would vote for the BNP (see The British Dream, David Goodheart, pg. 79,80). I don’t actually think this means a large minority of white Londoners are racist — I think it is a cry for help. London’s demographics have changed rapidly and in a pattern similar to conquered cities in European history. And I imagine most Londoners did not vote for such a transformation at the ballot box.
Then there are the projections. One (disputed) figure from a professor over at Migration Watch predicts that white Britons will be outnumbered by non-whites by 2066. The white British population declined from 86% to 80% over a 10 year period, from 2001 to 2011 — a pretty sizeable change. What’s interesting is in that period the ethnic population crossed the ‘10 per cent tipping point’, a sociological phenomenon in which ethnic interests begin to greatly affect the majority. Evidence for this is the phenomenal growth in talks of ‘diversity’ and the explosion and over-representation of non-whites (mainly blacks) in popular culture over the past decade.
I don’t think the anxieties have a purely racial basis. The anxiety comes from the current zeitgeist of masochist ideologies that constantly undermine Britain and the West, with an obsessive focus on its past sins — colonialism, slavery, and racism. Joining these anxieties is the desire to move past the nation-state, along with a growing acceptance of racism towards whites (using the term ‘white’ as a derogatory; referring to red-faced white people as “gammon”).
There is also the desire for stability in a multicultural community. And that in part requires re-writing the past. We’ve already seen this on BBC programmes that portray the Anglo-Saxons as a multicultural pot of Chinese, blacks, whites and Asians. Many people in Great Britain probably feel their identity is being stripped away from them. But identity is very important, and the nation is an extension of the self; a part of that identity. Take away a person’s identity, and you take away everything they have.
There is also the sense that only the West is partaking in the multicultural experiment. In 100 years, China will still be the ethnostate that it is, India will still be India, likewise with Africa. But what about Great Britain, with its fragile ecosystem of culture and dwindling ethnic groups with low fertility rates? All of these questions generate anxiety that cannot be uttered, questioned, or explored without immediately being compared to Hitler.