A number of commentators have come out with statements along the lines of the title of this post over the last few weeks and months, motivated by the latest madness. This morning I became aware of yet another milestone of the road to Hell laid out by the enemies of Freedom and the West, paved with the good intentions of the terminally naïve.
This one is a doozy. It doesn’t just make you role your eyes and sigh whatever exasperated plea to Heaven you use on these occasions, it’s actually very scary and infuriating. It has a certain scale, an awful grandeur that takes the breath away.
Here in the UK the Army is currently rolling out Operation Teamwork, a training day that is compulsory for all personnel across the Army. It is aimed at making the Army more inclusive, diverse, etc. etc. etc. So far, so leftie, it’s what most big corporations are doing at the moment, but Op Teamwork has a feature above and beyond the usual.
In Nov 2020 I wrote a post about a BBC video on England’s national flag, the Cross of George. In it one Kehinde Andrews argues that the Cross of George is a racist symbol. In my piece I describe Andrews.
“Professor of Black Studies in the School of Social Sciences at Birmingham City University, Director of the Centre for Critical Social Research, founder of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity and co-chair of the UK Black Studies Association. He is the author of “The Psychosis of Whiteness” and has his own Wikipedia and IMDB entries.
It might’ve been quicker to simply write “professional race baiting grifter” but that might be considered rude.”
Well, his paper “The Psychosis of Whiteness” is no longer just an obscure piece of toxic neo-Marxist drivel. It is now required reading for every serving member of the Army, from Field Marshals to Privates, from the Brigade of Guards to the Royal Army Medical Corps. Not only must they read it as part of Op Teamwork, they must agree with what it says. Dissent is being taken as a sign of potential racism in the dissenter and an indication that they need further re-education.
Here’s the last paragraph of the conclusion and a link to the full paper, for the intellectual masochists among you.
“Western capitalism is built on and sustained by a system of racism that exploits the people and nations of the darker parts of the globe. It is also sustained by a series of myths of progress and enlightenment about the good that the West has wrought. The dissonance between the reality and these myths is too great for the system to survive, so Whiteness becomes a psychosis that prevents society from engaging in the disturbing reality. This psychosis of Whiteness is essential to understand when fighting racism. There is no rational argument to those trapped in a psychosis, as there is no reasoning with Whiteness. Until the conditions that create Whiteness are destroyed, the psychosis will govern the thoughts and actions of Western society.”
This would be bad enough in some God forsaken college somewhere, or a right on corporation run by ponytailed muppets, but that this Marxist rhetoric is being actively pushed by the Army’s top brass is terrifying. I doubt many of the rank and file will fall for this BS, but the very fact that this rubbish is being forced on them cannot help but massively undermine confidence of the Army in its leaders.
Kehinde Andrews is a toxic neo-Marxist activist and anti-patriotic grifter who shouldn’t even be allowed within a mile of a barracks, much less his writings being actually force fed to soldiers.
I cannot bring myself to think that mere naivety is at the root of this. People high up in the Army must have read this paper, it must have been signed off. It’s hard not to ascribe malice as a motive to anyone doing allowing this. I think those responsible need to be looked at very hard indeed. It’s tempting to wonder if Beijing’s elite capture has reached as far as the Ministry of Defence and the General Staff. That this is happening under a Conservative Government only adds insult to injury.
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The US version of this is why, for the last decade or more, I never recommend anyone join the military. People I truly care about, I’ll do all I can to warn them off.
I’m glad I got out of the Navy decades ago. Nowadays, I’d be ashamed to admit being a vet.