Wokeness isn’t the cure to racism – it’s making racism worse

Anti-Jewish and anti-Asian hatred has been inflamed by the politics of identity.

BCF : ‘Silence is Violence’, said Black Lives Matter and its army of media cheerleaders in the tumultuous summer of 2020.

In their mind, anyone who stayed schtum about anti-black racism was complicit in it. If you failed to take the knee or put a black square on your Instagram page or faithfully mouth BLM’s political platitudes, then you were an aider and abetter of violence against people of colour.

Does this still hold? Is it still the case that saying nothing about racism amounts to supporting racism? If so, then the very same woke activists who spent the past two years saying ‘Silence is Violence’ should turn themselves over to the cops, because racist attacks have spiked horribly in the US in recent weeks and they have uttered not a word about it. In New York in particular there have been some truly grim racially motivated assaults. 

On 11 March, in Yonkers, a 67-year-old woman was viciously assaulted on account of her race. She was punched in the face 125 times, had her head stomped on seven times, was spat on, and was subjected to racist epithets. It was so severe that the suspect has been charged with attempted murder. At the start of April, a young man in Brooklyn was set upon by a gang, again because of his race. He was kicked repeatedly and subjected to insults. One anti-racist organisation said it was ‘shocked by the viciousness’ of this act of racist violence.

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