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for coup plot rumours<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Allies of Commons leader say other future candidates
for top job are trying to make her look disloyal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Pippa
Crerar and Kiran Stacey<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Mon 18 Mar
2024 18.03 GMT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/18/penny-mordaunt-tory-leadership-rivals-blamed-for-coup-plot-rumours">https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/18/penny-mordaunt-tory-leadership-rivals-blamed-for-coup-plot-rumours</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Penny
Mordaunt’s rivals in a future Conservative leadership contest have been blamed
for briefing coup rumours meant to ruin her chances of eventually taking over
from Rishi Sunak, the Guardian has been told.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Commons
leader, who came a close third in the leadership contest won by Liz Truss in
2022, has in recent days been at the centre of speculation over an alleged plot
to try to oust the prime minister to avert a general election disaster for the
Conservatives.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">But her
allies insisted on Monday that it was “nonsense” that she had been talking to
Tory rightwingers as part of any plot. Everyone knows that Penny’s rivals are
just trying to stir up trouble,” one supporter said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“She’s
loyal to Rishi and doesn’t want to add legitimacy to all this fluff by publicly
denying the claims.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">On a visit
to the Midlands on Monday, Sunak said he was “not interested in Westminster
politics” and insisted that his party was “united” as he tried to quell
speculation that he could become the latest Tory leader to lose his grip on
power.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Those loyal
to Sunak say they do not believe Mordaunt herself is the source of rumours that
she might stand against him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“I don’t
know who is putting it about but I don’t think it is her,” said one supportive
cabinet minister. “My best guess is those who are likely to stand against her
at a leadership election in the future are trying to spoil her candidacy now by
making her look disloyal.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Senior
figures from across the party came to Mordaunt’s defence, with one former
cabinet minister from the Boris Johnson era suggesting that the speculation was
a result of a “three-bottle lunch” between supporters of her rivals and members
of the press.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The reports
about a potential Mordaunt coronation emerged on Friday evening in the Daily
Mail and Daily Telegraph, which said a meeting had taken place between leading
figures on the Tory right and prominent supporters of Mordaunt’s last
leadership bid.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The former
cabinet minister said: “There’s a lot of unhappiness in the party towards Rishi
and the No 10 operation. But we don’t know whether there briefing is coming
from a 12-year-old junior spad in a Whitehall department or a cabinet
minister.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">One
minister from the centre of the party said the claims were “pretty unfair” to
Mordaunt, who they said had been doing the constituency party dinner circuit
for years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A senior
party figure on the One Nation wing said Mordaunt was being “used” by
supporters of her rightwing rivals for the Tory crown – including Kemi
Badenoch, Suella Braverman and Simon Clarke – to launch a leadership contest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“They’re
using her to try to take over from Rishi. None of the rightwingers can get the
centre of the party onboard. Even if there’s a coronation, Penny still loses
the election and it takes her out of play for the longer term,” the MP said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A leading
rightwing MP said it was unlikely their colleagues would back Mordaunt, even as
a compromise candidate, because of her liberal position on social issues such
as trans rights. “I don’t sense any appetite for trouble-making though,” they
said. “I believe this is just Penny’s rivals trying to do her down.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">While
Sunak’s supporters have dismissed the idea that electing a fourth party leader
within a single parliament could revive the party’s fortunes, many remain
unhappy about the way in which his Downing Street operation has worked in
recent weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Even the
prime minister’s allies say he was slow to remove the whip from the former
deputy chair Lee Anderson for his comments about the London mayor, Sadiq Khan,
and then indecisive once more over what to do about the Tory donor Frank
Hester.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Many say
they are frustrated by Downing Street’s inability to stick to a single message.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“The
national insurance cuts in the budget had the potential to cut through,” said
the cabinet minister. “But it won’t do that if we don’t keep talking about it.
Just because we haven’t seen an eight-point narrowing in the polls in the week
after the budget doesn’t mean we should stop talking about it.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Allies say
Sunak has been frustrated by the latest bout of infighting and he has no
intention of calling an early election to fend it off, as has been suggested by
some in the party. “The plan is still to do it in the last quarter of the
year,” said one.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Jeeveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14386587138188870792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6235740448142399264.post-76514866262655005672024-03-18T12:30:00.000-07:002024-03-18T12:30:00.137-07:00Trump campaign defends his 'bloodbath' warning. Hear what political strategists think<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/VvnQaPRXaNw?si=bmzFtLcKL5dU1v6R" frameborder="0"></iframe>Jeeveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14386587138188870792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6235740448142399264.post-45143440351114339722024-03-18T12:15:00.000-07:002024-03-18T12:15:00.125-07:00Joe: Democracy is on the line when Trump says Jan. 6 rioting is normal p...<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/G4X9pOHVUTI?si=w1NmGXlX7qOkx9ty" frameborder="0"></iframe>Jeeveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14386587138188870792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6235740448142399264.post-28940460714128165802024-03-18T12:00:00.000-07:002024-03-18T12:00:00.143-07:00 Political panel skeptical Trump "bloodbath" comment taken out of context<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/f3VA5tvM2og?si=tHpt7RIVIKDNq5rg" frameborder="0"></iframe>Jeeveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14386587138188870792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6235740448142399264.post-41291391031610173872024-03-18T11:45:00.000-07:002024-03-18T11:45:00.129-07:00The Illusion of Woke: From Enlightened Ideas to Dangerous Extremism by Jon R. Solace <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMwlP51h3mQlXnxMp2Uen-nKXt-dMSQNtEMm2pYTjDDzhk0BBtLI9qPa8bXMQw_ZnUs8wMQj7KxpjBUHv-ogdMjtLrHdVD0SOKhyyoWVfByL_Sx4s4Q-Bl2sMaEY4dDH3iq6as4z1FeH-boymVIi-VlwoAjsP9FVzwvSsako89XZ8YyhGDhhVWMR0tU14/s1500/61EYcTtMnaL._SL1500_%20(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMwlP51h3mQlXnxMp2Uen-nKXt-dMSQNtEMm2pYTjDDzhk0BBtLI9qPa8bXMQw_ZnUs8wMQj7KxpjBUHv-ogdMjtLrHdVD0SOKhyyoWVfByL_Sx4s4Q-Bl2sMaEY4dDH3iq6as4z1FeH-boymVIi-VlwoAjsP9FVzwvSsako89XZ8YyhGDhhVWMR0tU14/w427-h640/61EYcTtMnaL._SL1500_%20(1).jpg" width="427" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Illusion of Woke: From Enlightened Ideas to
Dangerous Extremism<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Illusion of Woke: From Enlightened Ideas to
Dangerous Extremism by Jon R. Solace</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> is a thought-provoking and timely book that explores how the left's
monolithic ideology and social media censorship are weakening liberalism,
fueling the rise of the far right, and endangering our democracy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In recent
years, the concept of "woke" has become a popular buzzword in social
and political discourse. Many see it as a positive force for social justice,
while others view it as a dangerous and divisive ideology that promotes
censorship, intolerance, and extremism. Solace argues that the truth lies
somewhere in between and that the illusion of woke has led us down a dangerous
path.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Through a
rigorous analysis of the history and evolution of liberal thought, Solace shows
how the left's embrace of identity politics and cancel culture has betrayed the
values of liberalism and created a new form of illiberalism. He argues that the
woke movement has become a dogmatic orthodoxy that brooks no dissent and seeks
to silence any voice that does not conform to its narrow worldview.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Solace also
examines the role that social media has played in the rise of the woke movement
and how it has enabled a new form of censorship that undermines the principles
of free speech and open debate. He argues that the algorithms and echo chambers
of social media have created a polarized and fragmented society that is
vulnerable to manipulation and extremism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">But Solace
does not only critique the woke movement and its excesses. He also offers a
compelling vision for how liberalism can be revitalized and reimagined in the
21st century. He calls for a return to the principles of classical liberalism,
which emphasizes individual freedom, rational discourse, and the pursuit of
truth. He argues that liberalism can be a unifying force that transcends
identity politics and promotes a common vision of the good society.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The
Illusion of Woke is a provocative and essential book that challenges readers to
rethink their assumptions about the nature of liberalism, the dangers of
extremism, and the role of social media in our democracy. It is a must-read for
anyone who cares about the future of our society and values the principles of
free speech, open debate, and intellectual diversity. Whether you are a
conservative or a progressive, a scholar or a layperson, this book will
challenge you to think deeply about the issues that define our times and the
kind of society we want to live in. So if you are looking for a book that will
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Darkening Europe’s Past<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">05/03/2024by
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">On
Historical Consciousness<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">History
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The European Union is intervening in the teaching and
writing of history to deliberately ‘darken Europe’s past’ as a way of building
support for a federal Europe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We are
grateful to Professor Frank Furedi for permission to republish this article
which first appeared on Roots and Wings with Frank Furedi: <a href="https://frankfuredi.substack.com/p/a-reply-to-the-european-parliamentarians">https://frankfuredi.substack.com/p/a-reply-to-the-european-parliamentarians</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In a recent
vote, the European Parliament agreed to affirm a report entitled ‘On Historical
Consciousness’ from its committee on culture and education[i]. The aim of the
report is to represent Europe’s past in the worst possible light. Through
framing the past in the form of a cautionary tale, its authors seek to use it
as a resource for the promotion of what it characterises as a ‘negative
foundational myth’. At first sight, the term ‘negative foundational myth’ comes
across as paradoxical one. After all, why would a negative foundation serve as
the ground for promoting the EU? The supporters of this report believe that it
can play this role by providing the EU with the justification to break with the
past and present itself as the positive alternative to the bad old days. As the
authors of the Report explain, they recognise ‘that the horrors of the past
serve as a “negative foundation myth”’, which provides ‘a strong sense of
purpose for the European peace project’.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The
Report’s representation of European history as a story of shame is achieved
through communicating it in the language of contemporary identity politics.
That is why they stress the need for what they describe as ‘intersectional
history’. From this perspective they can claim that ‘gender- belief- and
ethnicity-based injustices have been embedded in European history over many
centuries, including in the form of antisemitism and antigypsyism’, and that
these injustices have had ‘consequences for Europe and the rest of the world’.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The
Report’s commitment to intersectional history is justified on the ground that
it considers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">chauvinism,
gender-stereotypes, power-asymmetries and structural inequalities to be deeply
rooted in European history, and regrets the lack of a sufficiently
multicultural and gender-sensitive approach in the teaching of history; deems
it vital to address the marginalisation of women and other underrepresented
societal groups in history, and calls on the Member States to provide for a
stronger corresponding focus in national curricula<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Through
reading history backwards, the past is turned into the source of society’s
contemporary problems. The Report’s obsession is with identity-related themes
that are imaginatively recast as ‘deeply rooted in European history’. From this
perspective the settling of account with the injustices of the past underpins
the form of historical consciousness being promoted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The quest for legitimacy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The aim of
the memory politics advocated in this Report is to endow EU with the legitimacy
of the past. Normally the transformation of the past into a negative
foundational myth would undermine its capacity to serve the role of a
legitimator. However, since the pathologisation of the past is directed at a
history that was rooted within the nation, it does not harm the claim of a
transnational body like the EU to moral authority. It is the past of European
nations that stands indicted. That is why the report insists that the EU’s
version of historical consciousness should transcend the nation and become
European or global. In this vein it ‘acknowledges the array of past and present
initiatives at European level to foster a common European historical memory’.
Furthermore it<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Stresses
the vital role of education and calls on the Member States to update current
curricula and teaching methodologies with a view to shifting focus from
national towards European and global history and in order to allow for more
emphasis on a supranational historical understanding.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It proposes
a school curriculum that highlights the ‘vital importance of learning about
European integration, the history, institutions and fundamental values of the
Union and European citizenship for a European sense of belonging to emerge’ and
‘calls for the teaching of European history and European integration, which
needs to be regarded in a global context, and for European citizenship
education to become an integral part of national education systems’. In another
words the Report’s negative myth of the past serves to refocus history teaching
from the nation to the EU. In this way it hopes to cultivate a ‘European
historical consciousness’ at the expense of a national one.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Targeting national history<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Report,
‘On Historical Consciousnes’ is the latest example of a genre of anti-national
and anti-sovereigntist attacks on national history by EU federalist ideologues.
It was in the 1980s that powerful anti-national currents acquired a commanding
status in western European historiography. From the 1980s onwards even the
slightest interest in national history was treated with suspicion and in some
circles ‘national history’ was condemned as an accomplice to xenophobic
politics. ‘We, historians, need to reflect on how to deal with national
histories especially after they have demonstrated to be so dangerous in the
past by legitimating wars and genocides,’ argued one of its opponents[ii].
Historians like Stefan Berger portrayed national histories as a dangerous virus
that needed to be contained. He has argued that such a containment strategy
demands that the ‘naturalisation’ and ‘essentialisation’ of national narratives
should be forcefully ‘denaturalised’ and ‘de-essentialised’ in order to reduce
the harms they can cause. He also asserted that the threat posed by national
history should be limited by the creation of ‘kaleidoscopic national histories’
that recast national memory into multiple diverse fragments[iii].<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Some of the
supporters of the project of the construction of a shared European memory
explicitly acknowledge the instrumental and artificial character of their
scheme. The French EUphile political scientist, Fabrice Larat, an enthusiastic
proponent of this endeavour, wrote that the ‘instrumentalization of the past
for means of legitimization and community-building is not restricted to nation
states’[iv]. For Larat the instrumentalisation of the past is an essential
precondition for ensuring that all members of the EU sign up to what he
characterised as an ‘Acquis historique communautaire’; that is, a shared
historical memory that communicates ‘a shared belief about the historical
purpose of the common system of governance that is now the EU’[v]. The objective
of an acquis historique communautaire was to ensure that the values of the
project of European unification are underpinned by a common narrative of the
past.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The
instrumentalisation of the past by the partisans of a shared European memory is
essentially an administrative exercise conducted through technocratic and
public relations practices. This is a public relations campaign, which Chris
Shore well described as a ‘characteristically top-down, managerial and
instrumental approach to “culture building”’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He rightly questioned ‘its assumption that “European identity” can
somehow be engineered from above and injected into the masses by an enlightened
vanguard of European policy professionals using the latest communication
technologies and marketing techniques’[vi].<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The project
of Europeanising memory has relied on administrative fiat and the re-writing of
history. The promotion of the Europeanisation of memory does not depend on the
elaboration of a sophisticated or subtle historiography. Its influence relies
in its institutional power to subject EU member states to political and
cultural pressure to de-nationalise their past. The implication of the acquis
historique communautaire is that the nation no longer possesses the authority
to decide how it wishes to memorialise its past. According to the vision
projected by partisans of the Europeanisation of memory – in all but name – the
interpretation of the past becomes a shared enterprise in a post-national
Europe. Their aim is to underwrite economic and political harmonisation with
the co-ordination of historical memory. Attempts to promote common memory laws
on Holocaust Denial or the denial of the Armenian Genocide illustrate some of
the initiatives undertaken to institutionalise the Europeanisation of memory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Schemes
designed to re-write history textbooks and to promote transnational
historiography at the expense of national ones are regular themes in the EU’s
memory war. The European Commission’s financial support for historical research
is influenced by its political objectives, and consequently, as one recipient
of its largesse noted, ‘academic selection criteria were not strictly
applied’[vii]. Oriane Calligaro’s study of the EU’s research policy concluded
that the institution ‘actively encouraged de-territorialised and teleological
histories of Europe while simultaneously worrying that by doing so it
replicated the efforts of so-called ‘totalitarian’ states to rewrite
history’[viii].<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Since the
1980s anti-sovereigntist, de-territorialised history has merged the outlooks of
identity politics to provide an intersectional account of Europe’s past. In
this way contemporary concerns about issues such as the politics of gender and
decolonisation become eternalised and recycled as a negative foundational myth.
That ideologues promoting EU federalism rely on a negative foundation for its
institutional authority underlines its fragile basis. The darkening of Europe’s
history may serve to dispossess people from their cultural legacy but it will
do little to endow the EU with authority. That is why the is project of
Europeanising memory is unlikely to inspire the people of the continent.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="PT">[i]
chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-9-2023-0402_EN.pdf<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="PT"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">[ii]
Martín-Arroyo, P. (2014) ‘Histoeuropeanisation’: Challenges and Implications of
(Re)writing the History of Europe ‘Europeanly’, 1989–2015, College of Europe
Natolin Campus: Warszawa, p.45.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">[iii]
Berger, S. (2007) ‘Writing National Histories in Europe: Reflections on the
Pasts, Presents, and Futures of a tradition’, in Jarausch, K.H. &
Lindenberger, T. (eds), Conflicted Memories: Europeanizing Contemporary
Histories, Berghahn Books: Oxford. pp. 65-66.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">[iv] Larat,
F. (2005) ‘Presenting the Past: Political Narratives on European History and
the Justification of EU Integration’, German Law Journal, vol. 6, no.2, p.273<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">[v] Larat
(2005) p. 287.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">[vi] Shore,
C. (1999) ‘Inventing Homo Europaeus: Cultural Politics of European
Integration’, Ethnologia Europaea. Journal of European Ethnology, vol. 29,
no.2, p.31.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">[vii] Cited
Klinke, I. (2014) ‘European Integration Studies and the European Union’s
Eastern Gaze’, Millennium Journal of International Studies, vol. 43, no.2,
p.575.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="PT">[viii] Calligaro is cited in Klinke (2014)
p.574.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Jeeveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14386587138188870792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6235740448142399264.post-79189595113414643842024-03-18T11:15:00.000-07:002024-03-18T11:15:00.126-07:00Konstantin Kisin | Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, and Liberalism's D...<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/k6hTS7RIs1c?si=dVUkLqsDlXaFLLtr" frameborder="0"></iframe>Jeeveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14386587138188870792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6235740448142399264.post-57163351637765472972024-03-18T11:00:00.001-07:002024-03-18T11:00:00.125-07:00How a new identity-focused ideology has trapped the left and undermined social justice / Review: The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time – Yascha Mounk<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyFjXf0SvOpaPz6Lv7-hIlcrHVy9LoBDVUyvWjDBaFPyB6H3SGQOgqoK3zUOV8ZWO_SXKnFYVniHXWN92XwNE00Rg37t_94KW6BSAH4C4bjWHgE_pKq_XQ-TLrZz9APzLkocN_NJCqPbn3zwN85NO1LmKUMSn8OyprOBqR9zOPaPdrAgzAjetkClKugLU/s1500/71f76MeFxeL._SL1500_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="987" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyFjXf0SvOpaPz6Lv7-hIlcrHVy9LoBDVUyvWjDBaFPyB6H3SGQOgqoK3zUOV8ZWO_SXKnFYVniHXWN92XwNE00Rg37t_94KW6BSAH4C4bjWHgE_pKq_XQ-TLrZz9APzLkocN_NJCqPbn3zwN85NO1LmKUMSn8OyprOBqR9zOPaPdrAgzAjetkClKugLU/w421-h640/71f76MeFxeL._SL1500_.jpg" width="421" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">How a new identity-focused ideology has trapped
the left and undermined social justice<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Review: The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power
in Our Time – Yascha Mounk <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Published:
November 15, 2023 8.04pm CET<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Author<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Hugh
Breakey<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Deputy
Director, Institute for Ethics, Governance & Law. President, Australian
Association for Professional & Applied Ethics., Griffith University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><a href="https://theconversation.com/how-a-new-identity-focused-ideology-has-trapped-the-left-and-undermined-social-justice-217085">https://theconversation.com/how-a-new-identity-focused-ideology-has-trapped-the-left-and-undermined-social-justice-217085</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Yascha
Mounk’s new book, The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time,
explores a radical progressive ideology that has been taking the world by
storm. From its unlikely beginnings in esoteric scholarly theories and niche
online communities, this new worldview is reshaping our lives, from the highest
echelons of political power to the local school classroom.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Mounk
argues that the new identity-focused ideology is not simply an extension of
prior social justice philosophies and civil rights movements; on the contrary,
it rejects both. He contends that those committed to social justice must resist
this new ideology’s powerful temptations – its trap.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">While The
Identity Trap focuses on the political left, Mounk’s two previous books – The
People vs. Democracy (2018) and The Great Experiment (2022) – considered the
dangers of the illiberal right.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">His
critique of identity-focused progressivism thus comes from a place that shares
many of its values. He aims to persuade readers who are naturally sympathetic
to social justice causes that those causes demand a rejection, not an embrace,
of identity-focused politics.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A tour de
force of intelligent argument, The Identity Trap covers a lot of ground. Mounk
explores the intellectual history of the scholarly theories that support this
new worldview. He interrogates its plausibility, explains the shifts in social
media and news media that have amplified it, clarifies its key commitments and
raises the alarm on its likely consequences.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">To critique
this perspective, Mounk must first name it. He settles on “identity synthesis”,
in an attempt to avoid the more common but contentious term “identity
politics”. His term refers to its synthesis of a range of intellectual
traditions, including postmodernism, postcolonialism and critical race theory.
These theories focus on ascriptive categories such as race, gender and sexual
orientation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">One
question that immediately arises is why the identity synthesis focuses heavily
on some types of marginalised identities and not others. The lack of focus on
class – that is, hierarchies built on wealth, income, education and closeness
to elite institutions – is particularly surprising. After all, economic
marginalisation has baked-in inequalities and power differentials.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As Mounk
tells it, the Soviet Union’s moral and political collapse saw the concept of
class struggle fall out of fashion on the scholarly left, empowering cultural
concerns to take centre stage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">There is
also a curiosity here that Mounk doesn’t dwell on, which is why this worldview
requires naming at all. Most political ideologies – liberalism, socialism,
libertarianism, conservatism – are reasonably well defined and understood. This
is less true of the worldview that concerns Mounk. The vague term “woke”, which
has its origins in African American vernacular, was once used to refer to those
who had woken up to their world’s systemic inequalities. But the term is now
mainly used in a pejorative sense.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">This has
given rise to the perplexing phenomenon of an ideology that dares not speak its
name. Perhaps those who think of contemporary progressivism as simply the truth
are reluctant to name it as a specific position and turn it into an “ism”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Core themes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Capturing a
nestled group of moral commitments, political views, theoretical bases,
activist strategies and online practices, Mounk distils the identity synthesis
into seven core themes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Scepticism
about objective truth: a postmodern wariness about “grand narratives” that
extends to scepticism about scientific claims and universal values.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Discourse
analysis for political ends: a critique of speech and language to overcome
oppressive structures.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Doubling
down on identity: a strategy of embracing rather than dismantling identities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Proud
pessimism: the view that no genuine civil rights progress has been made, and
that oppressive structures will always exist.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Identity-sensitive
legislation: the failure of “equal treatment” requires policies that explicitly
favour marginalised groups.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The
imperative of intersectionality: effectively acting against one form of
oppression requires responding to all its forms.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Standpoint
theory: marginalised groups have access to truths that cannot be communicated
to outsiders.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">There is
always a worry when commentators take it upon themselves to outline an opposing
view. There are dangers of misunderstanding and simplification, and of
caricature and straw-man arguments. But Mounk does his best to document the
prevalence of these themes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Setting out
core concepts might also prove useful in allowing progressives to clarify where
they depart from his characterisation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Read more:
Do universal values exist? A philosopher says yes, and takes aim at identity
politics – but not all of his arguments are convincing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The ‘Black’ classroom<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Many people
are committed to the identity synthesis. Many of them wield considerable power.
How did this happen?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Mounk
explains how the identity synthesis grew out of scholarly theories taught at
many US universities. Graduates of these elite institutions have carried their
social justice commitments – and the determination to stand up for them – into
the corporations, media, NGOs and public service organisations that hired them.
The result has been the spread of a wide array of identity-focused practices
and policies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Mounk
details many of these practices. His opening anecdote tells the story of a
shocked Black mother in Atlanta being told her son must be placed in the
“Black” classroom. He sees the incident as part of a wider trend, whereby
“educators who believe themselves to be fighting for racial justice are
separating children from each other on the basis of their skin color”.
Universalism, he argues, is being rejected in the name of “progressive
separatism”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As an
ethicist, to me the most shocking of Mounk’s stories was the decision-making at
the US Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). A public health
expert from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) argued against the
life-saving policy of giving the elderly priority access to COVID vaccines. In
the US, the aged are more likely to be white, meaning such prioritisation would
disproportionately benefit whites.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The
“ethics” of the policy protecting the elderly was therefore given the lowest
score. This was despite the fact that the alternative (and initially selected)
policy would not only cost more lives overall, but more Black lives. As the CDC
knew, elderly Black people were vastly more likely to die from COVID than young
Black essential workers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">These
accounts provoke in the reader (or in this reader, at least) a sense that this
can’t be right. How could things possibly have come to this?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Genuine insights<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Mounk
provides a detailed and powerful critique of the identity synthesis. Yet his
analysis is not entirely unsympathetic. A recurring theme is the way the
identity synthesis stemmed from scholarly research that has delivered genuine
insights.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">For
example, Harvard law professor Derrick Bell was right to realise that legally
enforced school integration had done little to improve Black educational
outcomes. And he was insightful in drawing attention to structural racism.
Institutions could continue and even exacerbate the effects of historical
injustice, despite people’s good intentions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Similarly,
the legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, who coined the term “critical race
theory”, was correct to observe that Black women could be subject to
discrimination that neither white women or Black men endured. She termed this
phenomenon “intersectionality”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">These
important findings were, however, taken in worrying directions. Rather than
concluding there were two types of racism – direct, intentional racism and
structural racism – the latter became understood as the only type of racism.
This implausibly tied racism exclusively to oppressive structures, making it
impossible to make sense of (for example) hate crimes performed on one
marginalised minority by another marginalised minority.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Rather than
acknowledging that the law is a necessary but insufficient tool for social
change, the conclusion drawn was that laws preferentially treating certain
identity groups were necessary. Likewise, the concept of “intersectionality”
has been used to justify many questionable claims, far removed from its initial
meaning.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Division and difference<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Mounk
argues the identity synthesis is a “trap” because telling people to continually
focus on their ascriptive identities prioritises difference, and unequal
treatment only exacerbates divisions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">This is
especially so when dominant groups, such as white people in the US, are
encouraged to see themselves as white. Well established social science findings
suggest humans are powerfully motivated to favour their own in-group, and there
is a chilling capacity for cruelty against designated out-groups.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Recent
controversies in parts of the US – especially in elite universities – in the
wake of the Hamas attack of October 7 seem to back up Mounk’s concern.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Many people
harbour grave and longstanding moral concerns about Israel’s treatment of the
Palestinians. There is clear reason to fear the harrowing civilian cost of the
Israeli response.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Basic
ethics says there can never be an excuse to celebrate an atrocity, to applaud
the deliberate brutal murder of women and children, or to blame an entire
ethnic or religious group for a government’s policy. Yet university students
and professors have done all these things, invoking the language of
postcolonialism and oppression.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Many Jewish
progressives were shocked at universities’ reactions to the atrocity.
University officials failed to strongly condemn the Hamas attack. An open
letter from a coalition of student groups claimed Israel was entirely
responsible for the violence, while other student organisations used a picture
of the Hamas paraglider on their posters. One entry on the Sidechat app for
Harvard read “LET EM COOK” next to a Palestinian flag emoji.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Mounk’s
analysis suggests these outcomes are all too predictable. According to the
identity synthesis, everything must be viewed through the lens of oppressive
structures. Once it is decided that Palestinian people are the oppressed party,
and Israelis the oppressors, even the deliberate murder of Jewish children can
seem legitimate. Here, as elsewhere, ideology and in-group dynamics can so
easily trump humanity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Read more:
Friday essay: Joanna Bourke, the NSW arts minister, and the unruly
contradictions of cancel culture<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Insight without ideology?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Mounk does
not explore the possibility of an identity-focused progressivism that is
detached from scholarly theories and the ideological commitments underpinning
them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">This
detachment would not be an odd phenomenon. After all, most classical liberals
would, like Mounk, endorse John Stuart Mill’s arguments for free speech in On
Liberty, but would not necessarily subscribe to Mill’s particular version of
utilitarianism, which focuses on maximising “higher” forms of happiness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In a
similar way, a progressive reader of Mounk’s work might be alarmed at some of
the stated themes of the identity synthesis. For example, they might accept
scientific facts regarding climate change and vaccine efficacy. They might
retain their commitments to universal values such as human rights. They might
care about democracy and the rule of law.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Yet they
might still harbour enough concern for marginalised groups to support some
identity-based practices, such as censoring offensive speech, calling out
“white privilege” and cultural appropriation, and demanding race-sensitive
policies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Mounk does
not explicitly address this possibility. But his arguments suggest the
progressive view sketched above – which wants to be both humanist and
identity-focused – is incoherent. He shows that, without the rationales of the
identity synthesis, cancellation, censorship, moral intolerance and cynicism
about liberal-democratic institutions are far harder to justify ethically.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It is
inconsistent to have science when it suits and to decry it as oppressive when
it doesn’t. It is hypocritical to uphold democracy, free speech and the rule of
law against right-wing authoritarianism and simultaneously believe these
principles are merely tools of white supremacy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Worse
still, it is self-defeating to embrace the divisiveness of identity separatism
and to somehow expect the age-old problems of in-group tribalism not to emerge
– with predictably devastating impacts on vulnerable minorities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Mounk
builds a powerful case that the identity synthesis is indeed a trap. Genuine
insights, important realisations and progressive values lure the sympathetic.
But too often those insights are developed in extreme and implausible ways,
ultimately betraying the very goals they claim to value.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">by Robert Tombs (Author)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Named a Book of the Year by the Daily Telegraph,
Times Literary Supplement, The Times, Spectator, and The Economist<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The English
first materialized as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the
country they lived in even had a name. From the armed Saxon bands that
descended onto Roman-controlled Britain in the fifth century to the travails of
the Eurozone plaguing the prime-ministership of today's multicultural England,
acclaimed historian Robert Tombs presents a momentous and challenging history
of a people who have a claim to be the oldest nation in existence. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Drawing on
a wealth of recent scholarship, Tombs sheds light on the strength and
resilience of English governance, the deep patterns of division among the
people who have populated the British Isles, the persistent capacity of the
English to come together in the face of danger, and not the least the ways the
English have understood their own history, have argued about it, forgotten it
and yet been shaped by it. Momentous and definitive, The English and Their
History is the first single-volume work on this scale for more than half a
century.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p><br /> </p>Jeeveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14386587138188870792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6235740448142399264.post-47005268930929830572024-03-18T10:15:00.000-07:002024-03-18T10:15:00.125-07:00Islamist threats, Enoch Powell & the end of England | Historian Robert Tombs interview<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/hk-p08GE2-0?si=plcAt4YeEBDv-oEd" frameborder="0"></iframe>Jeeveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14386587138188870792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6235740448142399264.post-59931116581736894522024-03-18T10:00:00.000-07:002024-03-18T10:00:00.133-07:002 months ago: 'Muslim migrants are destroying European culture' - Poland's former prim...<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/dbc3Rlnjkto?si=mxIzDSwTSvIsBgGa" frameborder="0"></iframe>Jeeveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14386587138188870792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6235740448142399264.post-37377310366894497192024-03-18T09:45:00.001-07:002024-03-18T09:45:00.136-07:002 months ago: New EU migration deal: border controls, asylum policy and mandatory soli...<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/_lsbKiQRqH4?si=Y-oe5HxTOBw9fys1" frameborder="0"></iframe>Jeeveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14386587138188870792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6235740448142399264.post-62767206955014836062024-03-18T09:30:00.000-07:002024-03-18T09:30:00.129-07:00EU and Egypt sign 7.4 billion euro deal focused on energy, migration • F...<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/G-Qx7hYxSKA?si=Hj7XFShvsNe_QMdY" frameborder="0"></iframe>Jeeveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14386587138188870792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6235740448142399264.post-42035875959854299642024-03-18T09:15:00.000-07:002024-03-18T09:15:00.129-07:00Shipping is getting difficult. Are carriers adapting? | DW Business<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/6KDPeflQeO0?si=0WNUiziQBAc2G67E" frameborder="0"></iframe>Jeeveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14386587138188870792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6235740448142399264.post-53183554745988838972024-03-18T09:00:00.000-07:002024-03-18T09:00:00.136-07:00Business Live with Ian King<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/zvyLPNK0rzg?si=Zcmx_0GbfXlfJhKh" frameborder="0"></iframe>Jeeveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14386587138188870792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6235740448142399264.post-39110484832310004552024-03-18T08:45:00.000-07:002024-03-18T08:45:00.134-07:00Princess Kate treated APPALLING by the British public | 'they think they...<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/SMmQm8kIzXI?si=ZQNAQ5d1UYAVKic6" frameborder="0"></iframe>Jeeveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14386587138188870792noreply@blogger.com0