The excellent Freddie Sayers from UnHerd recently interviewed Professor Richard Dawkins, and here is what he had to say on the topic of race-based ‘affirmative action’. It’s well worth watching.
Dawkins is firmly in favour of equality of opportunity. He does not support the idea of selecting individuals on the basis of race or skin colour. In fact, he calls it out for what it is: racism.
I’ve spoken to many fair-minded and compassionate people who share his view. But few dare say so publicly – for understandable reasons. Who wants to risk losing their job, being misunderstood, ostracised and smeared as racist? Our institutions must be in a sorry state indeed if saying something so strikingly obvious to many carries such personal and professional risks.
I loved Dawkins’ unapologetic response when in the interview Freddie suggested he may be in the minority for expressing such a view: “Well then, I’m proud to be in a minority.”
So am I, if indeed it is a minority. And it is so good to hear someone in Dawkins’ position speak up on this issue, which has affected many of us personally. It’s an issue about which there has been no debate, and frankly a refusal to acknowledge and respond to concerns and arguments raised.
On my Substack, I’ve tried to highlight some of the costs that preferential treatment based on race can present for someone from a racial or ethnic minority background – how it can undermine human dignity and removes the right to equal treatment and fair competition with others without regard to race. In my view, this is totally unacceptable. A person’s or group’s dignity and rights as equal citizens should not be sacrificed and overridden in an attempt to achieve set proportions of racial characteristics in different settings. There is something wrong with that kind of ‘social justice’. And besides, racial discrimination simply cannot be the normal state of affairs in a liberal democratic society. The two are incompatible.
I truly hope that the tide is turning and more people from within our institutions will begin to voice concerns over this issue, and that those in positions of power will begin to listen.
There are better ways to address disadvantage and create a fairer society.
For now – thank you, Professor Dawkins.
This article first appeared on Amber Muhinyi’s Substack.
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Lol #BeKind
Picky point – there’s no such thing as a biological man as distinct from a man – the two sets overlap 100%. Same goes for women. Don’t use the language or concepts of our enemy who seek to corrupt language in an attempt to normalise their evil ideas
I agree. I think using these terms like ”cis” or ”biological” before you mention the gender is just fluffing ridiculous and I will never stoop that low. I never did it before so I’m not about to start now.
https://twitter.com/LibertyCappy/status/1687372801634668545/photo/1
It has to be a red line.
Making any concession to these loonies will lead to trouble.
Agreed.
https://twitter.com/LibertyCappy/status/1686182685981421568/photo/1
Nice one——Man and Biological Man are indeed the same thing. Control the language and you control the argument.
I’ve read this twice as its content is on the cusp of my comprehension of this stuff. I mused how such posting would be interpreted (if at all) by a UK reader going back say 20 years, or better yet, to ’68 the year I went to University. As Bob Dylan presciently opined five years earlier: ‘The times they are a-changin’. (Not for the effin better either. Bob Dylan didn’t write that).
I know, right? And we wonder where all the real men have gone…
https://twitter.com/Based_Ninja_San/status/1687176508023156736
Sums it up perfectly Mogs.
Maaan. What a F*****g world we live in
At the moment…
This must be us. Always.
https://twitter.com/SpillTheMemes/status/1687317283834589184
All the “bathroom facilities” in my house are ungendered and have locks on the door to prevent these stupid issues arising.
And how I hate the American euphemism for toilet in British documents.
But memes aside, does it really take around a year to get referred to a specialist at the hospital??? And they’re still doing PCR tests??? WTAF? I was appalled reading this from a GP. Maybe you guys in the UK can confirm this, although I expect there’ll be differences amongst Trusts. I think if I was still in the UK I’d be paying out to go private. The place has gone to the dogs.
”In-patients are regularly being made to have PCR tests. I can infer that a patient has been admitted as an in-patient when I receive a PCR result. I cannot remember when there was last a positive result, and again, it is unclear why this costly and flawed procedure is still being used.
The main problem facing the NHS now is waiting times. My surgeries are filled with patients who have already been referred and are waiting for hospital appointments. The patient rings the hospital to chase their appointment and is told that the waiting list is 50/60/80 weeks long. The only way to be seen sooner is to go back to the GP and ask the GP to expedite it. Where appropriate, I then duly send another letter, but the hospital triages it back down to ‘routine’ status and we are no further on. More time wasted at both points of service. As one consultant gastroenterologist said to me recently “there is no such thing as an urgent referral any more”.
https://www.hartgroup.org/frontline-gp/
Somebody stop me!
https://twitter.com/LibertyCappy/status/1685530664186363904/photo/1
Maaate…
If any women are uneasy about sharing a toilet with a ‘trans’, then they should just use the Men’s. They’d be much safer in there and no weirdos.
Won’t that start p*ssing off the men too? I have used the gents before but always made sure no one was in there beforehand, out of curtesy!
That’s the “caring” NHS for you. It doesn’t care a jot if you won’t obey.
Nurse Ratched is alive, well and cloned for the NHS.
Love the English, “applicants applying for a job”.
I was in a queue with some patients next to a door with Gender Neutral on. We were all killing ourselves, laughing at it, and summilary embarrassed a young nurse by pointing to it. We remarked it sounded like a London Underground Tube Station
Ok when are we going to label the woke as crazy? That’s what it is…..
Non wokes are probably 98% in the majority. ———–All that is required is that they UNITE and refuse to be bludgeoned. They have the power to stop this total CRAP.
I wonder when they will start the self criticism sessions, I wonder when they will form groups to call out non group think and betrayal of the ideology, or perhaps they have already began, I just guess the next step will be punishment beatings for wrong think.
In all my years of work, from 1968 and counting I’ve never asked any colleague which bog they use. It’s none of my firkin business.