Thread by @rogerahicks

Why is it so difficult for academics to recognise this truth?

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Academics are, in many ways, modern, secular heirs & (depending on discipline) counterparts of the medieval clergy.

They are favoured clients & employees of the state/(church), with a massive personal & professional self-interest in rationalising its role & self-image.

Members of Parliament are also favoured clients & employees of the state, who lie to us - & themselves - about representing the interests of their constituents & of British society at large.

It's the job of political scientists (hi, @epkaufm) to understand this, but they don't.

I do not blame political scientists for not recognising or understanding this, because they were never taught to.

But now that I'm here to teach them, they have an obligation, to themselves, to their profession & to society at large, to listen & to understand.

Americans are taught to blame King George III for British tyranny & the War of Independence, but he was only a figurehead of the British state & Parliament, which was also responsible for countless other wars, British imperialism & for exploiting its OWN, Native peoples.

It is usually overlooked that while the British empire was exploiting different races all around the world, it was also exploiting its own race of Native Britons & treating them no less harshly than it did other races.

The British state & Parliament also chose to turn a local European war into WW1. The War to End all Wars, it was called & pursued for 4 long bloody years, until Germany was finally defeated & humiliated, thereby paving the way for the rise of Nazism, WW2 & the Holocaust.

It was the British state, establishment & Parliament which embraced the madness of mass immigration & its justification in #CriticalRaceTheory, with its ideology of Post-Racial #Multiculturalism, DIVERSITY, Inclusion & #AntiRacism, sweeping aside all opposition as RACIST.

Allowing mass immigration into the UK was madness on two counts.

1) The UK was already overpopulated & in need of a smaller, rather than a larger population.

2) Human nature being what it is, it was bound to incite xenophobia, along with racial/ethnic tensions & conflict.

Inciting xenophobia was the perverse (but largely subconscious) method to this madness, allowing Britain's moral-supremacist elites to claim a spurious moral authority for themselves by condemning it.

#EnochPowell was demonised as a RACIST for opposing this madness.