Did you know that an amazing 25% of all estimated animal species on Planet Earth, and around 40% of all specific insect species, are beetles? There are approximately 400,000 known species of the order coleoptera in existence, although some scientists estimate there may be as many as 1.5 to two million in total, when you include undiscovered species that entomologists know absolutely nothing about. (So how do they know they’re there, then?)
The above facts are rendered rather null and void in nature, however, whenever you visit the nearest beehive, within which, in general, there are approximately zero beetles living whatsoever. On the odd occasion, though, just such a creature does indeed venture inside a hive of this sort, whereupon he or she, feeling profoundly alienated by the distinctly un-beetle-like nature of what he see arounds him, may immediately feel motivated to begin trying to forcibly decolonise the whole insect colony, in line with currently prevailing norms of academically approved neo-Marxist praxis.
Unreasonable Beehive-iour
“Just look at all this disgusting, deeply apinormative honey,” the Communist coleopteroid in question might self-righteously pronounce to all the assembled drones in the hive. “Where’s all the lovely tasty beetle-food we beetles like to feast upon? Looking around this appallingly undiverse place, you’d think bees were the only insects on the planet. Well they’re not. Instead, bees are a distinct insectoid ethnic minority, when considered in the racial round. As a proud and unapologetic beetle myself, I represent the clear invertebrate Global Majority, and as such demand to see much more visible representation of my kind in the immediate environment around me this very instant. Why are all your prominent public figures, like Her Majesty the Hive-Queen, so hideously yellow and striped? Why aren’t more of you wholly and admirably black and shiny of carapace, like my own good self?”
At which point, any sensible soldier-bees in the vicinity would respond “Because you’re in a beehive, mate”.
Except, maybe the soldier-bees might not react like this to the intruder’s presence at all. Instead, they may surprisingly welcome the distinctly over-demanding beetle inside, and begin systematically transforming absolutely everything previously bee-like around them to be more to his foreign tastes in supine compliance with his own dictatorial orders, to the bees’ own blatant disadvantage. But why?
#BeeKind to Others
Perhaps the foolish bees, just like many foolish humans within woke-captured white-majority nations like the U.K., had simply been brainwashed by the remorseless rise of the increasingly popular (at least amongst the governing and activist classes) term ‘Global Majority’, that we just saw our hypothetical beetle using when shaking up his local beehive.
This phrase is a fancy way of referring to all the non-white people in the world, and then arbitrarily lumping them together into one giant, supposedly homogenous whole as representing around 85% of the planet’s population – in direct opposition to white folk, who make up only under 10% of all the world’s people. (I don’t know what’s happened to the missing few percentile of humans there, by the way: maybe they’re just unacceptably ‘white adjacent’, like Jews or Moomins?)
There is no such thing as an ethnic majority, globally-speaking. In planet-wide terms, everyone alive belongs to an ethnic minority. Blacks, browns, whites, etc.: all make up fewer than 50% of the globe’s total population. In precisely the same way, there are more species of beetles on Earth than there are of any other insect; yet, put all the other insect species together, and beetles are still an overall slight entomological ethnic minority.
Thus, there is no true ‘Global Majority’ in actual physical existence at all – the whole thing is purely a verbal trick, a demographic and linguistic phantom. So what is the purpose of the term’s creation? It is a disingenuous tool of rhetorical control intended to spuriously unite 85% of the global population together in one single all-important matter: opposition towards evil white people, the one racial minority it is now considered socially acceptable to completely despise.
White people living in, say, Scotland (95% white, as of the last census) should turn this whole farce on its head by henceforth self-identifying as members of an oppressed ‘Global Minority’ on any future job applications, thereby to instantly accrue the all the benefits of positive discrimination currently only enjoyed by oppressive, overprivileged local members of the Global Majority like Humza Yousaf. But, of course, this kind of chicanery is only ever supposed to work one way.
Tyranny of the Majority
As I have demonstrated in a previously published history of the term, the whole artificial phrase has its origins back in 2003, when a black British academic named Rosemary Campbell-Stephens was funded by the Blair Government to parachute into London schools and ‘improve’ them.
Being a proud, self-proclaimed “anti-racist Pan-African paradigm shifter”, “disruptor” and “womanist”, Campbell-Stephens apparently took this to mean indoctrinating susceptible teachers into adopting the phrase in order to thereby help deconstruct white British society wholesale.
The point was to twist demographic reality so that local racial minorities – in the U.K., anyone other than the 80%-plus classed as being white in the last census – somehow magically lost that numerically inferior status and arbitrarily became reclassified as the ‘Global Majority’ instead, just like an arrogant far-Left beetle might try and do inside a beehive. As I wrote in my previous history of the term, this could be considered highly “empowering” to certain race-Marxist ideologues:
The very term Global Majority (GM)… is billed as an empowering alternative to BAME [Black And Minority Ethnic – a previous, now unfashionable term for non-whites living in the majority-white West], because the word ‘minority’ in that acronym supposedly defines everyone else in relation to white people, positioning them as somehow inferior or subordinate. Ironically, replacing BAME with GM still positions all other ethnicities in relation to white people, however, just in reverse; white people — and white people alone — are now put in direct opposition to every other race in existence, in a wholly negative and divisive way. They are the inferior subordinates now.
As Campbell-Stephens has specifically argued, the use of misleading terms like GM “reinforces who has the power to determine reality”. Unfortunately, the label ‘Global Majority’ has since caught on amongst the distinctly reality-averse nomenklatura class big-time, with bodies as varied as BBC Comic Relief, the Church of England and the National Council of Voluntary Organisations adopting it for officially endorsed internal usage.
Be aware, you worker-bee drones: it’s almost certainly coming to an HR Department near you some day soon!
The Less Than Silent Majority
One expert authority your friendly local HR Standartenführer might choose to bring in to educate the troops about this essential new term over Zoom is a black American lady named Britt Hawthorne (she/they), an online educator with “messy hair and a heart thirsty for justice”.
Britt’s vital 2022 book, Raising Antiracist Children: A Practical Parenting Guide, would appear to demonstrate the standard linguistic tactic of people like these: take any given term, like ‘racism’ or ‘majority’, then turn it upside down to mean its precise opposite, a bit like when the old Ministry of War was renamed the Ministry of Defence. As the saying goes, “Communists share your vocabulary, but not your dictionary” (unless said dictionary happened to have been written by Ambrose Bierce).
On her website, Britt patiently explains why it is we should replace now-outmoded terms like ‘ethnic minority’ with pious mouthfuls like ‘People of the Global Majority (PoGM)’ like so:
If you were to ask a child, ‘Are there more white people or People of Color in the world?’ almost all children would say ‘white people’. Why is that? U.S. movies, books, films, history, pop culture, children’s magazines, toys and podcasts almost exclusively centre the experiences and lives of white people. This white-centring — plus often-used terms like ‘ethnic minorities’ — gives children a distorted understanding of how many non-white people there are in the world… Because of the phenomenon of white centring in American society, children will see more white people than PoGM in the content they absorb and implicitly associate white skin with the majority and the norm… The term ‘minorities’ reinforces the racial hierarchy in the U.S., implying that PoGM are outnumbered in this society and therefore less powerful. … Words matter. … Using People of the Global Majority challenges the racist underpinning of our language that the word ‘people’ defaults to ‘white people’ — and reminds us that people with Black and Brown skin are the global majority, and white people are the minority.
Britt’s solution? To try decolonising your child’s mind by laboriously calculating an insane but comprehensive racial quota system for every book, film or TV show your child consumes, so that a globally accurate 85% of their protagonists are non-white, like in Bridgerton:
Think through ways that you and your family can recentre the art and experiences of People of the Global Majority. Take a look at the books in your home collection or Netflix queue. What percentage of the art centres white people as the main characters? Try to recenter PoGM in 85% of the art your child consumes. Considering 85% of the global population are People of the Global Majority, this can help your child better grasp the truth.
‘Truth’, eh? Please do bear in mind what I just wrote above about these people habitually seeking to turn upside down the usual meanings of common words.
Fortunately, some wicked white sceptics are now finally beginning to notice the existence of this linguistic obscenity and registering their objections. The flimsy logic of activists like Britt Hawthorne is all too easily satirised via the spread of absurdist fake memes like the following, supposedly showing the unexpected casting of Will Smith as Hitler in the (sadly non-existent) new Netflix biopic series Adolf, as yet another means of making the Global Majority feel oh-so-at-home in all those nations where they still as yet unfortunately make up a local minority, like 1930s Nazi Germany:
To be fair, that’s one piece of ‘blackwashing’ reverse-racial casting I would actually pay to see: particularly if Will’s co-star happened to be Kanye West playing Himmler.
A Real GEM of an Idea
How can you decolonise your own child’s mind from the bile of the Global Majority decolonisers like Britt Hawthorne? Perhaps by turning their own chosen upside down imagery and language upside down in its turn.
Britain’s very own Women’s Equality Party is clearly a highly inclusive organisation – so much so it even includes mentally ill men wearing dresses under the broad definition of ‘women’ – and, as such, has also recently made the move to officially update its own racial language from the use of BAME to the use of Global Ethnic Majority, or GEM, as justified by the following rather self-regarding rationale of one its black-skinned operatives:
Using the phrase Global Ethnic Majority correctly… points out our power as a majority and highlights the importance of perspective. It means our acronym is a “precious or semi-precious stone, especially when cut and polished” and “an outstanding person or thing”. Our emoji is a diamond. Global Ethnic Majority transforms our image from the oppressed and othered to something of high value. We know our worth. We are GEMs in every situation we are in because, instead of a minority view, our diversity makes companies more money when we sit on their boards. It brings colour, flavour, festivities, music, and the list goes on. We’ve known our worth for generations, now it is time mainstream society caught up.
Well, if GEM folk are so very, very, keen on being associated with things that need constant loving polishing, how about us GEM-sceptics flip the whole acronym to something more honest and accurate instead? Such as Totally Unhinged Racial Dogmatists – or TURDs for short.
This is an acronym I personally would be very happy to use to describe every single such delusional, hard-Left, anti-white race activist I come across (beetle or otherwise).
Steven Tucker is a journalist and the author of over 10 books, the latest being Hitler’s & Stalin’s Misuse of Science: When Science Fiction Was Turned Into Science Fact by the Nazis and the Soviets (Pen & Sword/Frontline), which is out now.
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