It is part of a strategy to blame those who speak out against racism for the very social divisions that they’re identifying
‘For the report’s authors, young people who insist that institutional racism continues to structure British social life will achieve nothing.’ Black Lives Matter protest, London 2020. Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images
‘For the report’s authors, young people who insist that institutional racism continues to structure British social life will achieve nothing.’ Black Lives Matter protest, London 2020. Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images
Tue 6 Apr 2021 09.23 EDT
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Among the first to congratulate the Commission on Ethnic and Racial Disparities on the publication of its report were, unsurprisingly, David Goodhart of the rightwing thinktank Policy Exchange, and Birkbeck professor of political science Eric Kaufmann. A 2017 working paper, titled Racial Self-Interest is Not Racism, written by Kau