There have been many reports of a rise in hate crime since the EU Referendum:
"There were 85 reports of hate crimes to True Vision, a police-funded reporting website, between Thursday and Sunday compared with 54 reports over the same period four weeks ago." (Independent) True Vision is not an official body.
How many of these reports were due to the Referendum is very difficult to disentangle. It is worth looking at the figures on hate crime. The graph below is from Crime Survey data:
What is immediately obvious is that hate crimes are not always about race.
So, we have a complex picture in which the UK media is covering the data provided by a pressure group of an excess of 29 reports on all types of hate crime as cast iron evidence that those who supported Leave are racist. What is going on?
Since the Enlightenment Britain has been a country that has rejected racism. The British have known that racism is wrong for at least two centuries. Although racism was rejected by our laws and philosophy racist events would still occur between individuals and even whole organisations and sections of society would have racist behaviour. Fortunately, nowadays the majority of ordinary British people are aware that the colour of skin or origin of a person is no reason for animosity.
Most importantly we know that if a black man is guilty of a mugging all people with darker skins are not to blame. We know that if an extremist explodes a bomb everyone from more equatorial latitudes cannot be blamed. We know that blaming the majority of people in a group for the actions of a few individuals is the way that extremists of all types create hatred.
A civilised and calm society has laws and respect for these laws that prevent extremists from exploiting racist politics. The racist and extremist method of gaining political advantage by blaming the group for the actions of individuals is now either banned or reviled in Britain. We have seen how blaming Jews for the actions of Israel has been reviled in the Labour Party and everyone is clear that actions by a group of racist Israelis on the West Bank cannot be used to attack all people who adhere to the Jewish religion.
There is now only one group of racists who are sanctioned to exploit this technique. These are the Internationalists. This group take incidents involving racists in particular countries and use it to attack the whole institution of Nationhood and all people who consider themselves to be Nationals of a particular country. These Internationalists use the same techniques as any racist extremists, they extrapolate from the individual to the group and then gang up to deprive a group of dignified respect.
The EU Referendum was a battle between Internationalists and those who believe in the Nation State. Those who believe in the diversity of Nation States were afflicted by the presence of a few racist fellow travellers. The Internationalists, to a man and woman, are racists who have exploited the few "offenders" to revile an entire group. Internationalism is a dangerous movement because its adherents do not even realise that they behave as a faceless, extremist gang and so are fodder for future tyrannies.
The political philosophy that uses the Racist/Anti-Racist conflict in the hope of creating social change or creating social collapse and revolution is known as "Post Marxism". It was the political philosophy of New Labour. It is Internationalist and is seldom covered in the media, most journalists being Post Marxists.
"There were 85 reports of hate crimes to True Vision, a police-funded reporting website, between Thursday and Sunday compared with 54 reports over the same period four weeks ago." (Independent) True Vision is not an official body.
How many of these reports were due to the Referendum is very difficult to disentangle. It is worth looking at the figures on hate crime. The graph below is from Crime Survey data:
So, we have a complex picture in which the UK media is covering the data provided by a pressure group of an excess of 29 reports on all types of hate crime as cast iron evidence that those who supported Leave are racist. What is going on?
Since the Enlightenment Britain has been a country that has rejected racism. The British have known that racism is wrong for at least two centuries. Although racism was rejected by our laws and philosophy racist events would still occur between individuals and even whole organisations and sections of society would have racist behaviour. Fortunately, nowadays the majority of ordinary British people are aware that the colour of skin or origin of a person is no reason for animosity.
Most importantly we know that if a black man is guilty of a mugging all people with darker skins are not to blame. We know that if an extremist explodes a bomb everyone from more equatorial latitudes cannot be blamed. We know that blaming the majority of people in a group for the actions of a few individuals is the way that extremists of all types create hatred.
A civilised and calm society has laws and respect for these laws that prevent extremists from exploiting racist politics. The racist and extremist method of gaining political advantage by blaming the group for the actions of individuals is now either banned or reviled in Britain. We have seen how blaming Jews for the actions of Israel has been reviled in the Labour Party and everyone is clear that actions by a group of racist Israelis on the West Bank cannot be used to attack all people who adhere to the Jewish religion.
There is now only one group of racists who are sanctioned to exploit this technique. These are the Internationalists. This group take incidents involving racists in particular countries and use it to attack the whole institution of Nationhood and all people who consider themselves to be Nationals of a particular country. These Internationalists use the same techniques as any racist extremists, they extrapolate from the individual to the group and then gang up to deprive a group of dignified respect.
The EU Referendum was a battle between Internationalists and those who believe in the Nation State. Those who believe in the diversity of Nation States were afflicted by the presence of a few racist fellow travellers. The Internationalists, to a man and woman, are racists who have exploited the few "offenders" to revile an entire group. Internationalism is a dangerous movement because its adherents do not even realise that they behave as a faceless, extremist gang and so are fodder for future tyrannies.
The political philosophy that uses the Racist/Anti-Racist conflict in the hope of creating social change or creating social collapse and revolution is known as "Post Marxism". It was the political philosophy of New Labour. It is Internationalist and is seldom covered in the media, most journalists being Post Marxists.
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