We live in very dangerous times, none of this fear did I feel before the mass migration of the last 25 years. It has crept in like a virus and we do not have the leaders to cure it. I feel it is terminal.
Following Blair declaring Britain ‘multicultural’, politicians continued to use the rhetoric of pluralism, claiming, ahistorically, the British identity was merely the adoption of civic values, while academia, with its demonic spawn state education, and the legislation enacted, put relativism into practice.
The demand of relativism was not to allow the majority culture to continue on its merry way, with other cultures free to practice their religions and customs while they didn’t conflict with British law, it was to give other cultures and their practices equal standing by ultimately subordinating that first principle of civic nationalism, the rule of law, to other culture’s practices, see: forced marriage, FGM, women’s equality rights. They paid lip service to ‘equal before the law’ but didn’t practice it.
When the ‘culture’ in question is totalitarian, it conflicts with liberal values, most obviously the values of free speech and free expression. Its utopian bedfellow, progressivism, is also totalitarian, functioning as a secular faith. The latter, treats opposition to its political demands as a morality issue, and those who oppose its policies, and their often appalling outcomes, as sinful. Its adherents reflexively moralise, with quite some conviction, when faced with heretics, just like the followers of its bedfellow.
The takeaway from Fox’s brilliant exposure of the ‘moral’ reflex stifling free speech and expression, is not that adherents of the muslim faith act as expected, its that defenders of so-called ‘classical liberalism’ do it on the former’s behalf.
Many thanks for today’s missive. I watched the debate, but did not quite put it into perspaective as you’ve done—greatly expanding my understanding.
He sure hath-a-way with him that Laurence Fox. Also Jonathan Sacerdoti was brilliant !
We live in very dangerous times, none of this fear did I feel before the mass migration of the last 25 years. It has crept in like a virus and we do not have the leaders to cure it. I feel it is terminal.
You have reminded me of the freedom of my youth. We have lost so much.
Following Blair declaring Britain ‘multicultural’, politicians continued to use the rhetoric of pluralism, claiming, ahistorically, the British identity was merely the adoption of civic values, while academia, with its demonic spawn state education, and the legislation enacted, put relativism into practice.
The demand of relativism was not to allow the majority culture to continue on its merry way, with other cultures free to practice their religions and customs while they didn’t conflict with British law, it was to give other cultures and their practices equal standing by ultimately subordinating that first principle of civic nationalism, the rule of law, to other culture’s practices, see: forced marriage, FGM, women’s equality rights. They paid lip service to ‘equal before the law’ but didn’t practice it.
When the ‘culture’ in question is totalitarian, it conflicts with liberal values, most obviously the values of free speech and free expression. Its utopian bedfellow, progressivism, is also totalitarian, functioning as a secular faith. The latter, treats opposition to its political demands as a morality issue, and those who oppose its policies, and their often appalling outcomes, as sinful. Its adherents reflexively moralise, with quite some conviction, when faced with heretics, just like the followers of its bedfellow.
The takeaway from Fox’s brilliant exposure of the ‘moral’ reflex stifling free speech and expression, is not that adherents of the muslim faith act as expected, its that defenders of so-called ‘classical liberalism’ do it on the former’s behalf.
Rees-Mogg illustrated that perfectly.
Off to watch the debate now. Clever Lawrence Fox!