Shawcross gave expression to a subject of genuine, grave concern. The west has been pushed into an experiment with poor precedents and gloomy prospects – the attempt to shift the foundations of its very identity; to shift them from the time honoured, world wide props of broad ethno-cultural homogeneity, with a leavening of minorities, to a purely “humanist” universalism. Arrogantly, this experiment reckons without the deep loyalties and ancestral moorings of both host and newcomer. Worse, it is moving out of the hands of its liberal-universalist begetters and into those of “woke” proponents of irrational guilt among Europeans and irrational grievance amongst others. Warsi is effectively an apologist for this madness and hates Shawcross for his stubborn sanity.
Yes – native European culture is being decimated and we are expected to shut up or put up. The host cultures are forever being painted as the villains in the story even as they see themselves slowly disappearing.
Chris Wheatley
3 years ago
Yet another example of how free speech has gone – for ever?
pete.nuttall
3 years ago
Red herring. Right wing nutters, anti vaxxers and shortly climate extremists are bigger issues for deradicalisation
Adrian Maxwell
3 years ago
The tittle tattle of the upper Tooting tea tables (I think it was Denning) now called a ‘twitter storm’.
williamlouismccall
3 years ago
Warsi, of course, is one of those who NEVER acknowledges that she is wrong. Her misinterpretation of what was said by Shawcross is just another shrug of the shoulders by one of those who will NOT concede that the Qu’ran is a violent and violence-inciting collection of beliefs that were supposedly given to some Arab villager 1500 years ago by whom he believed was some deity. We need to hear less and less from Warsi and others like her.
Daniel Goldstein
3 years ago
The usual suspects, then. Muslims are always the victims in their ongoing campaign.
Shawcross gave expression to a subject of genuine, grave concern. The west has been pushed into an experiment with poor precedents and gloomy prospects – the attempt to shift the foundations of its very identity; to shift them from the time honoured, world wide props of broad ethno-cultural homogeneity, with a leavening of minorities, to a purely “humanist” universalism. Arrogantly, this experiment reckons without the deep loyalties and ancestral moorings of both host and newcomer. Worse, it is moving out of the hands of its liberal-universalist begetters and into those of “woke” proponents of irrational guilt among Europeans and irrational grievance amongst others. Warsi is effectively an apologist for this madness and hates Shawcross for his stubborn sanity.
Very well said! You’ve got to the crux of the matter in one paragraph.
Yes – native European culture is being decimated and we are expected to shut up or put up. The host cultures are forever being painted as the villains in the story even as they see themselves slowly disappearing.
Yet another example of how free speech has gone – for ever?
Red herring. Right wing nutters, anti vaxxers and shortly climate extremists are bigger issues for deradicalisation
The tittle tattle of the upper Tooting tea tables (I think it was Denning) now called a ‘twitter storm’.
Warsi, of course, is one of those who NEVER acknowledges that she is wrong. Her misinterpretation of what was said by Shawcross is just another shrug of the shoulders by one of those who will NOT concede that the Qu’ran is a violent and violence-inciting collection of beliefs that were supposedly given to some Arab villager 1500 years ago by whom he believed was some deity. We need to hear less and less from Warsi and others like her.
The usual suspects, then. Muslims are always the victims in their ongoing campaign.