Can the race obsessives please make up their minds?

The diversity zealots reject the ‘colour blind’ approach – but only when it suits them

Paul Embery is one of the most interesting, insightful and original voices to have emerged in British journalism for some time — Douglas Murray

AREN’T we all ‘racist’ these days? After all, so casually is the word tossed around that it is hard to see how it hasn’t been stripped of all meaning. If, for example, you voted for Brexit or believe in strong borders, the nation state or the primacy of the majority culture inside Britain, you will inevitably have been branded a ‘racist’ at some point. I know I have.

There was a time when to be hit by such an accusation would be reputation-destroying. But things are shifting. People are no longer easily convinced that someone accused of being a racist is, in fact, a racist. They realise that the word has been so overused and devalued, especially in political debate, that the threshold for assuming guilt should probably be higher.