Welcome to episode 44 of the Weekly Sceptic, and it’s our longest episode yet! This week:
- Nigel Farage is de-banked by Coutts – and not because he had insufficient funds in his account!
- Bank of England captured by Stonewall. Will it now de-bank the entire country for not being pro-trans enough?
- Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg is investigated by Ofcom for reading the news
- Whose take on the French riots is better? The populist Right or the woke Left?
- Katharine Birbalsingh fights back against Jess Phillips
- Maya Forstater passes Go and collects £100,000
- Caitlin Moran has a cure for the male identity crisis – make them more like women
- In Peak Woke, the boys discuss the RNLI sending white men on a ‘diversity course’, the police not being allowed to wear a badge commemorating fallen comrades on a Pride march and Colonel Dr. Kelvin Wright being forced out of the Army Reserve for defending women’s rights
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Excellent podcast, I’ve added you to my podcast app after listening to this.
However the “some of the looters are white” argument put forward by Young is ridiculous. There are riots in France every year and the rioting is caused by the migrants or their offspring.
I’m bound to say, I wholly agree.
The desperation of Mr Young’s argument here could be heard in his voice.
Sadly, Mr Dixon rather failed in the effort to respond to it, so I offer my own rejoinders.
First, what proportion of these rioters were white?
Second, what proportion of the Gilet Jaunes were non-white?
I think you’ll find that, barring a small overlap, the two groups are completely different.
Second, if riots are so French how is it that they break out in Britain?
Third, is Mr Young really so clear that second or third generation immigrant families really are authentically French?
To say so would be an extreme version of the cultural assimilation view of nationality, wholly excluding any sense of the importance of descent, ethnicity and appearance which are crucial not only to European but to all “old world” notions of belonging. Only American identity is so purely a matter of law and convention and even that is falling apart.
Yes, a third generation member of a migrant family might be “French” or “British” in a host of ways – legally, for example; but would you really and truly believe that Britannia or Marianne could sincerely or properly be anything other than summaries and representations of the ancient, ethnic stock of the nation?
Then again, had the assimilation been of small numbers at a time of cultural self-confidence then, yes, the third generation would have been French or British in that host of secondary ways, but this has not happened. They are brought up in often self-selecting ghettoes and, no, these places are not neglected. As Anne-Elisabeth Moutet has pointed out, the French state has lavished care and attention on such places for years.
Powell was certainly correct – large scale migration divides society, makes assimilation even less possible than it normally is and results in civil strife. The situation is made worse, not better, by global village conditions since where before they’d have tuned in to TF1 or the BBC, they can now access tv channels which reinforce old loyalties.
None of Mr Young’s well meaning excuses and evasions – which depended rather too much on jocular and unsustainable generalisations concerning the French proper – will do.