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Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Dumb Harry: Who Will Rid Us of This Idiot Prince?

By Brendan O'Neill

The Spectator.co.uk, October 28, 2020: Prince Harry has seen the light. His awokening is complete. Yesterday, in a video chat hosted by GQ magazine, he confessed to the sin of ‘unconscious bias’ and instructed the rest of us — the unwoke throng — to ‘educate yourself’. And there you have it: this duke, sixth in line to the British throne, is now indistinguishable from those irritating campus activists who scream ‘EDUCATE YOURSELF’ at anyone who has the temerity to demur from their worldview.

Harry was having a chat with Patrick Hutchinson, the personal trainer who was photographed carrying a counter-protester to safety during clashes with BLM activists over the summer. Harry trotted out all the woke lines. ‘Ignorance is no longer an excuse’, he said, no doubt to those still in denial about the unwitting hatred that lurks in their hearts (that’s essentially what ‘unconscious bias’ means).
I really don’t think the Duke of Sussex should be pushing divisive ideas like ‘unconscious bias’

He praised this year’s BLM protests as a ‘global movement’, like an unstoppable ‘train’, and everyone must ‘get on it’, he said. That’s easy for him to say from his swanky pad in Santa Barbara. What about the black and white working-class communities in other parts of the US whose businesses and livelihoods were destroyed by the excesses of this ‘global movement’? They might wish that this train, which involved riots, the destruction of monuments, and confrontations with diners who refused to raise their fists, would slow down a little, or maybe even come to a halt.

But it was his use of the line ‘educate yourself’ that most clearly illustrated Harry’s capture by the cult of woke. That is the most common cry of the self-elected guardians of correct-think. And don’t be fooled by their use of the term education, which of course is a good thing. They don’t mean ‘educate’ in the sense of going off to read some books and talk to people and make up your mind on an issue. No, they mean ‘get with our programme’. ‘Educate yourself’ is a demand for conformity. Really it means re-educate yourself; submerge yourself in the ways of identity politics.

That’s why Harry’s train metaphor was so revealing, too. ‘The train has left the station, and if you’re not on it now, then get on it’, he said. Leaving to one side the question of how you're supposed to get on a train that has already left, the most important part of this metaphor is its one-way nature. Trains go in one direction only. They can’t be steered somewhere else. What Harry is essentially saying is that there is only one correct way to think about issues like BLM, unconscious bias and identity politics, and if you think a different way… well, you’ll be left behind.

It was hard not to hear his wife Meghan’s voice. Did she write this script, I found myself wondering? Indeed, Harry credits his arrival in the station of correct thought to his experiences with his Meghan. He said he spent ‘many, many years’ unaware that unconscious bias even existed, but his awareness was raised by ‘living a day or a week in my wife’s shoes’. So she gave him his Damascene conversion? She turned him from the bad old Saul who wore Nazi outfits to fancy-dress parties into the Paul of wokeness, a proselytiser for political correctness?

What is striking about this is that Harry, like other royals, has worked with charities and good causes for a long time. But apparently he didn’t become properly socially aware until he spent a day or two in the company of a very wealthy celebrity from Hollywood. There’s an implicit insult in this. Apparently schools, institutions and charities in the UK failed to prise open Harry’s eyes to the problems of the world, but magic Meghan did it in a matter of weeks. Thank God for virtuous celebs, eh?

I really don’t think the Duke of Sussex should be pushing divisive ideas like ‘unconscious bias’. This identitarian ideology, which suggests that most people are racist, even if they don’t realise it, has nothing in common with the old noble cause of anti-racism. Those old struggles were about securing equality for people regardless of their racial backgrounds, whereas today’s BLM outlook encourages division. This obsession with white privilege and black victimhood; the idea that people’s hidden hatreds must be teased out, that must be corrected by a new army of therapeutic race-relations experts; it is all a recipe for suspicion and tension. Harry, get off that train.

Monday, January 13, 2020

Harry and Meghan, the Super-Sensitive Royals

Harry and Meghan claim to have been driven from Harry's native Britain by British racism, the Daily Mail reporting that:
... In November 2016, Harry lashed out at the 'wave of abuse and harassment' the US actress had faced from the media – citing the 'racial undertones of comment pieces' among his concerns.
Oh dear, what a sad state of affairs we have reached when even members of the Royal Family claim victim status.

The mail further reports that:
...The couple are said to see their long-term future in the US – but not, while President Donald Trump is President with friends claiming while the couple plan to live in Canada at first their ultimate aim is to have a home and business in Los Angeles.
So Canada is not exactly where they want to be, just a kind of holding zone until the US of A has a president they find more acceptable than the one elected by the American people.
Meantime, the Mail reports, poor Liz II is under the gun:
... to find a way forward because the Sussexes could give a tell-all interview to their friend Oprah Winfrey... if they do not get their way...
Which sounds like, you know, blackmail. 
And just to give the threat greater credibility, Harry's close friend, broadcaster Tom Bradby, warned that in an interview with Oprah Winfrey they could:
... 'sound off' about the royal family's 'racism and sexism'
And blackmail with a big prize at stake:
... The Duke of Sussex wants his 93-year-old grandmother, father and brother to let him and his wife keep their royal titles while living abroad and grabbing 'financial independence' to earn their own money using the Sussex brand, which experts say could be worth £400million.
And there you have it. All that lubbly jubbly to be grabbed selling the SussexRoyal insignia while telling those stuffy Royal Brits to go stuff themselves. 
Unfortunately, for the SussexRoyal pair, they may find Canadian "racism" as appalling as British Racism, if comments in the Vancouver Sun are anything to go by. Thus one Jannick Slavik writes:

... So Trudeau has approved an initial 1,000,000 RCMP security expense for these leaches?

What a joke

And airhead Megan says she wants to stay in Canada until After Trump is gone?

It’s going to be another 5 years of expense for these losers
And that comment raises another question. In their declared intention to live outside the United States as long as Donald Trump remains President, Harry and wife are taking a political stance that is  clearly incompatible with the political impartiality of Britain's constitutional monarchy.

The implication is clear: Prince Harry should give up his Royal title. Then, he and Mrs Harry Mountbatten Windsor* can live wherever they want for whatever reason they want, whether their reasons, however political, are privately held or publicly declared.

This necessary transition from public figures to private individuals will free Harry and Meg to get as rich as croesus without causing Britain's constitutional monarchy any taint of either  commercialization or politicization.

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* The original family name was Battenberg, which might suit Harry, reduced to the status of a regular Canadian, better than Mountbatten Windsor, the cumbersome made-up name that he currently goes by.

Related:
Daily Mail: Harry regrets

Daily Mail: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle STILL call themselves 'Their Royal Highnesses' in statement released on SussexRoyal.com website minutes after the Palace announces they are quitting royal life , dropping HRH titles and won't receive any more taxpayers' cash

Globe and Mail: 
Harry and Meghan, and why members of the Royal Family can’t live in Canada

Globe and Mail:
The Canadian Crown meets residual royalty: The awkward truth about Harry and Meghan in Canada

Globe and Mail:‘Meghan and Harry: If you are reading these comments, please take them to heart and stay in Britain!’ Readers debate: Can the royal couple live in Canada?

Angus Reid Institute: 
Royal Tab: Vast majority of Canadians don’t want to pay costs associated with the Sussexes’ move to Canada

Globe and Mail: 
The Canadian Crown meets residual royalty: The awkward truth about Harry and Meghan in Canada

Globe and Mail:
Meghan and Harry move to Canada: The plan so far, and the questions it raises

Globe and Mail:
Meghan Markle’s father to testify in legal row with tabloid

CanSpeccy:
The Crackbrained Sussexes: Dictating Terms to the Queen

Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Diversity Is Our Weakness

Does ethnic diversity erode social trust?

Yes, according to a meta-analysis of 87 studies to be published in the Annual Review of Political Science, Volume 23, 2020.

Continued immigration and corresponding growing ethnic diversity have prompted this essential question for modern societies.

... this article reviews the existing literature on the relationship between ethnic diversity and social trust through a narrative review and a meta-analysis of 1,001 estimates from 87 studies.

... We find a statistically significant negative relationship between ethnic diversity and social trust across all studies. The relationship is stronger for trust in neighbors, and when studied in more local contexts....
Or as we reported years ago:

CanSpeccy: Too Much Diversity May Be Bad For Your Economic Wellbeing

So, no, Justin Black-Face, diversity is not our strength, though as Canada's Prime Globalist Mouthpiece you have to say so.

Our strength depends in what unites us, however loudly you and Jaggers scream RAAAACIST at Maxime Bernier, for whom a majority of Canadians would vote if they weren't sheep-brained victims of the propaganda-spewing educational establishment and the globalist media. 

And religious diversity doesn't help, as the ongoing genocide of Christians in Nigeria confirms.

But for a brilliant exposition of what happens when the "other" is within the gates see Brexit: the Banality of Treason, by Andrew Joyce and published by the estimable Mr. Ron Unz.

Quote: speaking of Brexit, Joyce writes:

There are traitors in Parliament, but they occupy every seat, and not just those on one side of the House of Commons. Boris Johnson, in proposing an amnesty for half a million illegal immigrants, acts against the will of the people. Priti Patel, in easing the path for thousands more of her co-ethnics, acts against the will of the people. Treason from government is not a novelty, and is not tied to Brexit. It is endemic and banal in equal measure.

Friday, September 20, 2019

PIERS MORGAN: Blackface Trudeau should apply the same high horse standards to himself that he applies to everyone else – and demand his own racist head on a plate

So, let me get this absolutely straight…
Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Canada and arguably the most woke, virtue-signalling and PC-crazed leader in the history of Mankind – or ‘Peoplekind’ as he insisted we rename it last year - turns out to have a rather cracked halo?
Wow. I’m so shocked…not.
I’ve not met a high-horse rider yet who doesn’t eventually tumble off into a pit of shameless hypocrisy.
But I’ve got to hand it to Trudeau, when he fell, he really FELL.
For a guy so keen to paint himself as the male Mother Teresa, the revelation that he has literally painted himself to appropriate non-white skin color is a bombshell from which I doubt he will ever recover.

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Salisbury Terror Nerve Gas Attack: How We Know Putin Did It

Theresa May, House of Commons, March 12, 2017:
Re: The poisoning of Segei and Yulia Skirpal in Salisbury, England
Based on the positive identification of this chemical agent by world-leading experts at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at Porton Down; our knowledge that Russia has previously produced this agent and would still be capable of doing so; Russia's record of conducting state-sponsored assassinations*; and our assessment that Russia views some defectors as legitimate targets for assassinations; the Government has concluded that it is highly likely that Russia was responsible for the act against Sergei and Yulia Skripal.

Mr. Speaker, there are therefore only two plausible explanations for what happened in Salisbury on the 4th of March.

Either this was a direct act by the Russian state against our country.

Or the Russian government lost control of this potentially catastrophically damaging nerve agent and allowed it to get into the hands of others.
So folks, no actual evidence, but still it's best just to place your trust in the politicians who in your hearts you know do what’s absolutely best for you, like, for example, bringing on the next ME war, with potential for escalation to World War III.

The fact that the incident in Salisbury occurred days before the Russian Presidential election has of course nothing to do with it.

The fact that the incident in Salisbury occurred just a couple of months before Russia is to host the World cup has of course nothing to do with it.

The fact that the incident in Salisbury occurred in the months leading up to completion of the NordStream II gas line to deliver Russian natural gas to North Western Europe, a project that US interests still seek to block to the benefit of US exporters of liquefied natural gas, a surplus byproduct of oil fracking, has of course nothing to do with it.

The fact that Trump is gunning for a war on a Russia-backed Iran for which the incident in Salisbury may yet provide a pretext, is not to be thought of.

The fact that Putin has no reason to seek a war for which the incident in Salisbury could so readily serve as a pretext, at a time when Russia and China are still racing to surpass the US in arms both quantitatively and qualitatively, is of course irrelevant.

No, clearly, Putin decided that since now was the worst possible time to murder a Russian spy — a man already pardoned by the Russian state — using a terror weapon with Russia’s signature on it, on foreign soil, then this was, in fact, the best time since no one would believe the Russians to be that damn stupid. Trouble for Putin is that everyone is so damn stupid that they really do think the Russians are that damn stupid.

* May defends use of drones to kill British terrorists overseas
* Tracking US drone strikes and other covert actions in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia

Related:

The Star: Canada’s Russia policy raises many questions (such as why expel diplomats in the complete absence of evidence of wrongdoing? Because it's all bollocks, that's why.)