We need a libertarian philanthropist willing to bank role a libertarian lawyers to take Cambridge University et al. to court on discrimination. We also need the current crop of cowards in the Conservative party to grow a spine and challenge this leftist authoritarianism but unfortuately most of them, particularly the leader, have fully embraced progressivism.

Another incisive article by Douglas. He has that ability to strip away ephemera and get to the heart of an issue. The hypocrisy and double standards at Cambridge are breathtaking. Just gutless.

Any sympathy or understanding white people have for non-white people is rapidly diminishing.

Gopal is a racist.

Then there was the sacking of the 24-year old who arranged the “White Lives Matter Burnley” stunt

I don’t want to support the stunt, or claim to understand the motives of the people behind it, but there is a point here.

Whatever you think of the relative problems faced by poor black and poor white people both here and in the states, there is a difference. When black people suffer, the world listens. Celebrities show their solidarity, academics send tweets and rush out papers, and the upper middle classes flood onto the streets. Even Piers Morgan is on board. If the sufferers are white, nobody cares.

From the perspective of white, working class Burnley, it probably does look like a reminder is needed that “white lives matter”. Like “black lives matter” it’s a kind of shorthand – in longer form, it probably means: just because you are white, working class, northern and probably voted Brexit – doesn’t mean your life doesn’t matter too.

The divisiveness is intentional. The goal is to destabilise then destroy the ‘patriarchy’ as numerous people have explained for a long time. I wasn’t listening until a couple of years ago when, by chance, I saw Jordan Peterson and Cathy Newman. Listening to him from that point and the magnificent Mr Murray, amongst others, and it does become rather obvious.

The problem here is Cambridge University not this absurd harridan Creuella De’Gopal.

It would appear that Change.org has taken down the petition that she should be sacked by Cambridge Uni.

I live in Australia so unfortunately can’t follow through with this suggestion. “Professor” Gopel should be prosecuted. Who of you are prepared to lay a complaint? If the police won’t act, crowd fund a private prosecution. When she looses ask Cambridge why they employ a convicted racist? Time you lot stopped whinging and took some action. Hands up volunteers please.

Not exactly short on privilege. I’m not sure how much more bourgeois you could get.

Gopal was born in Delhi, India. The daughter of an Indian diplomat, she spent her childhood moving between India, Sri Lanka, and Bhutan, and attended an international high school in Vienna, where her father served as a diplomat in the mid-1980s.[3][4]

The overwhelming feeling I have is sadness: sadness at how cowardly people and those that run institutions are. Their cowardice is generating a great deal of anger, I suspect. Anger which, when the fashionable wind-changes – and people are “free” to say what they think again – will express itself violently.

A massive thanks to Mr. Murray for his writing, thinking, living, and breathing in these bizarre times. Peace, love, and many victories.

Great article, and another example of how organisations that are state funded are allowed to behave in anyway they see fit, and another example of a government that talks about equality and freedom of speech and then goes away and hides in the corner just in case the woke comes for them…….nothing will change……88% of this country do not matter, their lives do not matter…..Burnley Football Club want white people to pay the club money and then say their lives do not matter…….nothing changes

Great analysis by Douglas, as usual. Casual observation, without any hard data on the matter, suggests that South Asians are much over-represented in the white guilt industry not only in the UK but in my own country of Canada. The former Liberal, now so-called Independent Senator, Ratna Omidvar would be exhibit A for a Canadian example, although Senator Omidvar is certainly not deranged like Gopal. It would be above my pay grade to do a formal statistical analysis on the subject or to speculate on the reasons why but it would seem to be a useful topic of inquiry for someone at a higher pay grade. My only suggestion, which again, is just based on casual observation, is that South Asians brought up as Christians seem unlikely ever to toil in the white guilt industry. Their faith teaches them that Christ does not care about skin colour.

If I write a comment I always get the message “Hold on, this is waiting to be approved by UnHerd”. Is that the same for everybody, and if not, why me? What have I done wrong.

It seems that one can be moderated out of discussion by mentioning lepidopterists. It’s a puzzle.

Another fine but increasingly irrelevant piece of Mr. Murray. I do not mean to be negative or reject what Douglas has to say in these troubling times. He is indeed always on the money. BUT all this should have been the focus of attention of the conservatives 60 years ago. I just watched Yury Bezmenov’s warning to the United States from the eighties again. Back then the conservatives were busy defeating the evil empire while they never realized, even in 1989 with the break up and downfall of the Soviet Union that the West was already heavily pregnant with Socialism and Postmodernism. Yes we had defeated the enemy in “open combat” so we thought and rolled in the victory for many years until our own blind belief in the “superiority” of the enlightenment ideas and the assumed overwhelming urge for freedom and individuality made us complacent and arrogant. As you said Douglas;”We found out that the Enlightenment went only skin deep”. Forgive me if I quoted you incorrectly. We are trying to fight something that has rolled over us in the past couple of decades and now that every institution has been captured by these ideologues we start to worry now about the future. It is too late now for a meaningful and rational intervention. We should have listened to Gramsci and the Frankfurt School Marxists but we did not. This cannot be solved anymore by democratic means. And that is what nobody wants to openly admit. The other side has no qualms about using increasingly undemocratic and violent, oppressive ways to “convince” the rest of us that we are wrong. We are running out of options fast. So it looks like that one nonviolent countermeasure could be this: Let it go down the drain and let Socialism defeat Socialism as it always does. And while Socialism eats its own children and destroys itself the rest of us and I mean the conservative movement in the West could use the decades to come to finally understand how to achieve and maintain cultural hegemony. (We have to become the “better” Socialists) 🙂
It will also be crucial to understand how un-tethered capitalism and corporate greed (the laws of economics) have contributed to the downfall of the West. Only then do we have a chance to abolish Socialism for good from the face of the earth. But that will be the end of conservatism as we understand it as well and this is exactly what has to happen. Conservatism has ultimately no defense against the leftist ideologues, it is inherently incapable as it is to provide an effective counter narrative to the socialists. We need to understand this before we ever want to have a chance for a lasting comeback.

To study at Cambridge was my ambition as a child (almost six decades ago), and I was proud to graduate from there. Now I cringe at what has become of a formerly great university. Does it even merit the description “university” any more?

Quite recently I had a debate with some Oxford development studies students about race and gender. To say that they were regurgitating slogans and cliches would be too charitable. The social sciences have been well and truly colonised by the likes of Professor Gopal, and her likes are busy purging the same institutions of the last vestiges of opposition, and brainwashing new generations of zombies to continue sacking Rome from within.

Since when are universities meritocratic institutions? This article is quite disingenious since Mr. Murray knows very well what actually drives universities, august or not. British or not. (Perhaps especially British, come to think of it). Also, Mr. Murray should know how to use the phrase “beg the question”.

I don’t know enough about the Peterson and Carl situations to have a view but I think you’re being unfair towards Gopal. There’s an important piece of context you’re ignoring, which is “As white lives.”. Her point, as I understand it, is that we don’t need to say “White Lives Matter” because almost no white people in Western society are dying because they’re white. We don’t need a “White Lives Matter” movement, because white people aren’t being systematically killed at a higher rate due to being white. Black people are. That’s her point, not that white lives don’t matter. I think it’s badly worded tweet and as you’ve shown easily misunderstood. It’s ambiguous and unclear. But its intent is not to be racist against white people and we shouldn’t insist on firing people for bad communication.