There are two disturbing things about the Muslim-Hindu clashes in Leicester. The first is the violence itself. Gangs of men have clashed across the city. Hundreds of Muslim and Hindu youths in balaclavas and Covid masks – those plague-era face-coverings still have their uses, it seems – have confronted each other on normally quiet suburban streets. Glass bottles have been thrown, a knife was allegedly wielded (one man was arrested on suspicion of possessing a ‘bladed article’). It really blew up on Saturday night into Sunday morning, as the rest of the country was preparing for the queen’s funeral. You couldn’t have asked for a better, more depressing snapshot of fragmented Britain: a display of solemn unity in Westminster, violent religious streetfighting in Leicester.

The second disturbing thing is the moral evasion of the elites. The political and media establishments seem utterly unwilling to grapple, honestly, with this explosion of identitarian tension on the streets of England. Even where they do talk about Leicester’s strife, evasion remains the name of the game. It’s all the fault of outsiders, many are saying. As the Leicester Mercury summed it up, it is being ‘widely claimed’ that ‘a number of more recent migrants to the city hold far-right Hindu nationalist views’. Those backward Indians coming over here and disrupting our multicultural paradise. This is issue-avoidance on an epic scale. Blaming foreign agents for clashes in the Midlands is a desperate attempt to distract attention from the domestic ideologies that have whipped up identitarian tension. Primarily the ideology of multiculturalism, that hyper-divisive worldview. It is that ideology’s unravelling we are now witnessing in Leicester.

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With depressing predictability, the discussion about Leicester is morphing into yet another effort by the guardians of multicultural correct-think to distract attention from some of the problems associated with Islam and integration in modern Britain. This reflects another poisonous element of multiculturalism: the creation of an identitarian hierarchy. Such is the fragmenting dynamic of the identitarian worldview that it now even divides communities by moral worth. You’re either ‘privileged’, and thus suspect, or ‘oppressed’, and thus good. Britain’s Indian-heritage communities have firmly been placed in the ‘privileged’ camp. Consider the extraordinary double standards the woke elites display when discussing the Hindu community vs the Muslim community. Indian protesters in Leicester have widely been referred to as ‘far right’. Yet if any commentator refers to radical Islamists as ‘far right’ or ‘fascistic’, they risk being denounced as Islamophobic. In the identitarian ideology, Hindus are fair game for criticism, even hate, whereas Muslims must always be protected from criticism, debate and any kind of blame whatsoever.


https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/09/20/leicester-and-the-unravelling-of-multic...

Woke new elites ridicule the idea of a common culture, and at the same time elevate some communities as perfect and blameless while denouncing others as privileged and extreme. It is all a recipe for separatist mayhem. We don’t need foreign agents to come here and divide the people. Our own establishments have already done a fine and terrifying job of that.

Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Sep 22^nd, 2022 at 8:44am:


So you are suggesting you can't find the "voice will be heard" thread which you have been inhabiting non-stop for the last fortnight and more - go on, and the link is on #1117......as you well know, unless in fact you DON'T read the posts to which you are replying. 

Over-indulged by parents who told them they were special, they are terrified by the adult world of competition and thus rage against capitalism; cutting their wisdom teeth in the echo-chamber of social media, their pursuit of those who refuse to parrot their claims (men can be women, prostitution is work like any other) at times resembles every witch hunt from Salem to #MeToo. A recent survey by the think-tank Policy Exchange claimed that fewer than half of British university students support freedom of speech.

It’s not just the style but the content of their arguments which make woke reactionary rather than revolutionary. It takes in activists who claim that lesbianism is “transphobic” and that sportswomen should accept second place to competitors who were born male, Fauxminists who believe that a permanent underclass of prostituted women is acceptable and that wearing a hijab is subversive, Antifa in America and Corbynite clowns who repeat ancient anti-Semitic tropes about the Jews - and princes who seem to believe in the divine right of kings when it comes to being criticised. Their analysis of class oppression is conspicuous in its absence, fitting for a group to whom only the personally experienced is political. Thus an unemployed middle-aged manual worker in the American Rust Belt has more “privilege” than Meghan Markle due to being a white male.

This is not politics; this is the roar of the entitled mediocre, desperate to hold centre stage and terrified by any challenge to their flimsy sense of self - a temper-tantrum with a socially concerned alibi. The woke are self-centred to the point where they care so much about “micro-aggressions” towards themselves that they don’t seem to care about atrocities that happen to others in “faraway countries of which we know nothing” to quote Chamberlain on Czechoslovakia.


Hence:

Being called “Darlin’” by a bus-driver = Evil.

Female genital mutilation = It’s Their Culture.
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And now even that Santa Claus of the woke, that unimpeachably beautiful first black American President, Barack Obama, has critiqued his fractious fans: “This idea of purity and you’re never compromised and you’re always politically woke… you should get over that quickly. The world is messy. There are ambiguities… There is this sense sometimes of: ‘The way of me making change is to be as judgmental as possible… If I tweet or hashtag about how you didn’t do something right… I can sit back and feel pretty good about myself - man, you see how woke I was…’ That’s not activism. That’s not bringing about change. If all you’re doing is casting stones.”
Julie Burchill

Just like climate change.

Woke is another way to control the masses.

Wouldn't have taken much effort to get to a new level of stupidity...

Arising into popular culture in the 2010s, Wokeism, with all its DEI, hyper-obsession with extreme equality and absolute equity, is a manifestation of the Millennials' arrival as the dominant political, cultural, social and economic generational overlords - a status that is set to remain dominant until about 2050.

Having been raised by the Boomers, and inculcated with the myth that everyone can be anyone they want to be - to 'do want they want to do, be what they want to be', with a religious disregard to their respective limits regarding talent, ability, physical or intellectual capacity, has resulted in almost an entire generation within the Anglosphere retreating into a mass shared delusion.

A shared delusion where its proponents pretend they don't see that the 'champion runner' has no legs, and insist that the rest of the world doesn't see it either.

Frank wrote on Jan 12^th, 2024 at 10:40am:

Communism was a failed ideology by the 1980's.

Wokeism began its rise into mainstream popularity in the 2010s when the early Millennials turned 30 and has developed further into the 2020s as the early Millennials reach their 40s - decades after Boomer popular culture was at its zenith.