#DavidAaronovitch is an eminent British journalist & #OwellPrize winner, who works for @thetimes & #BBC, but presumes to tell people how they should & shouldn't FEEL & THINK about RACE.
I will NOT be told how I should & shouldn't FEEL & THINK about ANYTHING, including RACE.
This is a profoundly important issue, since it is not just @DAaronovitch telling us how we should & shouldn't FEEL & THINK about RACE, but the British state, establishment & Parliament themselves, demonstrating their power to tell us how we should & shouldn't FEEL & THINK.
This is how they control us. This is Big Brother. Who tricks us into loving him by deceitfully posing as our nation.
Wake up, Britain! Wake up, America! And every other country being told by its elites how they should & shouldn't FEEL & THINK about RACE.
David Aaronovitch has an #OrwellPrize, & yet behaves as a prime minion of BigB. How ironic is that?
I presume he wants to suppress RACIST thoughts & feelings, but that's still Orwellian.
To condemn racist, i.e. hateful, behaviour is one thing, but thoughts & feelings BigB deems to be racist is quite another.
David deemed me to be RACIST for failing to identify with multi-racial British Nationhood. Which I still don't & will never do. Because it's Orwellian.
David Aaronovitch sees himself as a liberal, & on most issues he is, which is what attracted me to him, to discuss the issue of race & national identity. But on this one issue he is not liberal. He's authoritarian & quite Orwellian, believing himself to be a "good" anti-racist.
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Britain & America, like all so-called "nation states", are Orwellian constructs, based on lies, deceit & different regimes of rewards & intimidation. It is by deceitfully posing as nations that they deceive us into loving Big Brother.
They are mercenary "patron states" deceitfully posing as nations, in order to legitimise themselves, their ruling elites & the immense power they wield & abuse. As pseudo nations go, they are 2 of the best, thanks to their traditions of the rule of law & individual freedom.
However, Orwellian constructs, they remain, which makes them inherently unjust, inhumane & unsustainable on our finite, vulnerable & overpopulated planet, #SpaceshipEarth.
Either we quickly & radically reform them, or they - & we with them - will perish.
What I have recognised & given expression to above is no less profound & important than #Copernicus's recognition that the Earth is not stationary at the centre of the universe, but a wandering star (a planet) which orbits the Sun, like Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn.
Academics have failed to recognise this truth, which is essential for understanding society & the state, because distracted & led astray by their overreaction to the evils of Nazism.
DarkHorse Podcast with Douglas Murray & Bret Weinstein. via @YouTube
I wanted to comment on this podcast when I tweeted it, but didn't know how to express myself. I still don't.
I like Bret a lot & would love to be friends with him & his family. When I watch his & Heather's podcast, esp. when live, I feel as if I'm looking in on friends.
I don't feel the same warmth towards Douglas. I'd still like to be friends with him, but can't imagine us becoming close friends. I find something alienating about gay men, which makes me want to keep my distance. There is also something of the arrogant intellectual about him.
I refer to RACE as the "ultimate limit of KINSHIP", but am speaking personally. It is how I FEEL. Others clearly feel differently. Some restrict kinship to immediate family, many extent it to include aunts, uncles & 1st cousins, while others extend it to include all humanity.
I believe this to be an existentially important issue, which academics in the social, political & evo-socio-biological sciences urgently need to address, because key to:
United we stand, Divided we fall.
We are hopelessly divided, which can have only one catastrophic outcome.
The nation state, which claims to unite us (as Britons, Americans, Canadians, or whatever) is an Orwellian construct, based on lies, deceit & a regime of rewards & intimidation.
As individuals, academics are well served by this Orwellian construct, & thus fail to recognise it.
The choice between fight or flight is instinctive, but there is no instinctive response to the threats we face. We have to think about them, which exposes us to the subconscious temptation of rationalisation & denial, which we have clearly succumbed to.