“Anti-White Racism”

A TfL advert has been banned for portraying a black man as an aggressor. It seems only Caucasian males are allowed to be villains

Transport for London (TfL) has had to pull part of its latest video campaign against harassment of female passengers because, in the offending clip, the man who was shown pestering a woman happened to be black (while the woman happened to be white). And, after receiving a single complaint from the public, the Advertising Standards Authority ruled that the clip “had the effect of perpetuating a negative racial stereotype about black men as perpetrators of threatening behaviour”.

Culturally, self-flagellation has become a civic virtue; institutions once central to national life now frame their own founding stock as the problem to be solved.

The British countryside is “too white.” At least that is, according to Defra—the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, as reported earlier this month in these pages. Following a report in 2019, National Landscapes—a charity mostly funded by Defra—has been launching outreach programs aimed at encouraging ethnic minorities to break the stranglehold of “white communities,” “white spaces,” and “white environments.”

An aide to New York City’s socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani boasted her hatred of ‘white woman behavior’ on social media after she received a dirty look for taking a 40 minute phone call on the train.

Drashti Brahmbhatt, an advisor for Mamdani’s 100-Day Planning and Implementation period, detailed the awkward encounter in November 2021 in a series of since-deleted tweets.

Brahmbhatt claimed she was riding the Metro-North Railroad when she received an ‘important’ call that ‘could not wait’, she wrote in tweets unearthed by Washington Free Beacon reporter Jon Levine.

I think by now most of us can spot a double standard when we see one. So let me try two out on you. In what situation is it acceptable to denounce an MP or parliamentary candidate as ‘not very British’ or even someone who ‘doesn’t get our values, our culture, or our history’. When it is said by a Reform candidate about an MP from an ethnic minority? Or when Jeevun Sandher MP says it about Matt Goodwin, the Reform party candidate for Gorton and Denton?

Doubtless you have already guessed the correct answer. The above phrase was used this week by Labour’s Sandher to denounce Goodwin, and as a result it has passed without any serious comment. By contrast, if Goodwin had described Sandher in similar terms I think we can all agree that the news cycle would have stopped (even Jeffrey Epstein would have fallen off the front pages) and Labour MPs would be gearing up to talk about Enoch Powell again.