In Episode 39 of the Sceptic, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests:
- Michael Reiners, lawyer and writer, on Britain’s new blasphemy law, and how multiculturalism is closely linked with our free speech woes
- Charlotte Gill, Daily Sceptic columnist and author of the Woke Waste substack, who exposes Sadiq Khan’s connections with LBC, whether BBC Question Time has audience plants and who really funds Full Fact
- And for our premium subscribers, Laurie speaks to Tim Samuels, broadcaster and documentary filmmaker, on his hit new documentary about the damage caused by DEI initiatives – White Men Can’t Work
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Freedom Strangled Every Day
The ‘White men can’t work video’ is truly shocking but I am not at all surprised. This sort of anti white ethnicity male discrimination is rife in central London Corporates and Banks. Worse still is if you are both British and white. A recurring observation I made at the large corporates/banks is that the various minority groups were pushed via quotas. However, when some of those minority group managers then had to hire people they so often hired from their own group rather than a diverse mix. In several teams this was rife with some truly ridiculous hires and promotions. It would have been amusing were it not so serious. Of course, the minority group manager had to hire the odd, token, male of white ethnicity but this rarely turned out to be a British male but rather a male from Europe. I witnessed this phenomenon so many times that I realised it is about organisational power. Sure, hire someone of white ethnicity but ensure it is not one from the country’s majority group, so the hired person is then easier to manipulate and will be ‘more grateful’ for the role.
One way to address this issue is to leave Britain and work in eg a developing market of mainly none white ethnicity people. I did this and guess what? My white ethnicity is now a total none issue. Just think about the irony of this for a moment…
What does this tell us? It tells us that it is Britain’s insane identity politics; corporate/bank hiring quotas; managers (including male white managers) bolstering their promotion credentials by hiring mainly none white and none male employees; sheer cross cultural vindictiveness/agendas; cronyist hiring within minority groups; and numerous lawyers active in this area who are also pushing an agenda, that are driving this issue in Britain.
So, for all those affected, my advice to you is leave the country and, to young British white ethnicity male graduates of high ability, do not waste your time in the joke that is now Britain but leave the country as soon as you can after graduation. There is a whole world out there that does not push the identity politics and anti white ethnicity nonsense that now prevails in British society. You would still have the British national vote, so vote Reform to put an end to this nonsense such that, one day, you may be able to return to a more sane Britain. If not, then retire abroad.
Mr Samuels’ approach to helping disadvantaged persons treats them as individuals. The Left, however, always define people as groups. Groups can be mobilised, another leftist tactic, as Charlotte Gill notes. But not just mobilisation, but mobilisation against a common enemy.
This latter feature is in part what results in what Mr Samuels notes as the inhumanity or the lack of empathy. Because the left reasons using an alphabet of defined groups, discrimination is an inherent feature of their politics. Anyone who cannot or will not march in step will be vulnerable, as the men who he refers to have found.
Furthermore, as Ben Cobley and others have noted, DEI is moral superiority. Whether those who promote and administer it are individually good persons or humbugs, they all believe in their moral superiority.
Anyone who has met left-wing Christian progressives, who are certainly not confined to Quakerism, will know that meeting them is like Jesus of Nazareth meeting the Pharisees. The latter were the educated metropolitan elite of their day, undoubtedly morally upright. Whereas Jesus of Nazareth and his disciples were uneducated provincials. The classism that Mr Reiner notes in the application of the Public Order Act is as evident in the present day Pharisees as it was in the biblical variety (‘The crowd outside the Law are accursed’).
If companies and organisations are unlikely to ditch DEI, it is partly because of it’s moral appeal. Or more accurately, it’s appeal to self-righteousness. But it also attests to the fact that this software is ossifying into hardware. And anyone who has worked in the NHS recently will know that DEI is far from merely ‘kicking around’ in it.