The ‘anti-racists’ want me to hate Britain
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This country is one of the most tolerant in the world. But there is a limit to how much a society can take before it breaks.
By Dia Chakravarty
Nobody divides us more than the so-called ‘anti-racists’. And the damage they are doing to our society, I fear, will soon become irreparable.
Barely a week goes by without another self-appointed, self-anointed do-gooder telling me that I should feel unwelcome in my country. This week, I found out from a new report that the British countryside is ‘racist’ and ‘colonial’, governed by ‘white British cultural values’, and that the perception that the countryside is a ‘white space’ prevents people like me from enjoying the outdoors.
Racist, colonial, white (only ever in an accusatory sense) – these terms have been so persistently and meticulously injected into every aspect of our public life that we no longer bat an eyelid when we come across a paragraph like the one above in an apparently serious document, intended to inform policy. But what doe...
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