Sexual harassment and the anti-white bigotry of our governing class

The enthusiasm of the elites for hyper-diversity evaporates when there are bad guys to be depicted

If you are an ordinary joe with a fairly standard outlook on life – perhaps the type of individual that is nowadays described as a ‘normie’ – then I suspect that, like me, you see the stuff being pumped out every day by our creative and cultural industries and our political and corporate institutions and find it difficult to escape the sense that you are being subjected to a relentless moral lecture.

No longer do these industries and institutions reflect the reality of the world around us; instead, they portray life as they would wish us to see it. Wokery rules. ‘Be kind’ is the order of the day. Britain has embraced the precepts of cosmopolitan liberalism and is all the better for it. That's the message.

One of the manifestations of this phenomenon is the prevalence of ethnic and cultural hyper-diversity in everything. When it comes, especially, to television, film-making, advertising and marketing, every part of our nation is made to look like some multi-ethnic and multicultural utopia. The rule applies even when what is being served up is set in the past. Unable to pass up any opportunity to impart the message that Britain has, ab initio, been a patchwork nation, the progressive sophisticates who control the output are even willing to go as far as falsifying history. So we end up with events such as the Blitz, Scottish renaissance, and English civil war being presented as if they all occurred in present-day Islington.

If the portrayal were accurate, so be it. Racial prejudice is, after all, abhorrent; and, in any case no reasonable person should flinch at what is – or was – true. But it isn’t accurate. Deep down we know it. That’s why it rankles. Because the only conclusion to be drawn from the persistent efforts to distort truth is that they have a political motive.

There is, however, one exception to the rule. Have you noticed it? It’s when there’s a bad guy to be depicted. Then the desire for maximum diversity suddenly evaporates.

Take a recent anti-harassment campaign video produced by Kent county council which was intended to highlight ‘the experiences that girls face outside of school, in the street or on public transport’. The video showed three separate incidents of harassment. In every case, the harasser was a young white male.

I just knew this wouldn’t be a one-off, so after viewing the video on YouTube, I sought out as many others as I could find promoting a similar anti-sexual-harassment message. I’d like to say I was surprised by the results, but I really wasn’t.

There were short videos produced by:

· the home office: two identifiable harassers, both white

· the mayor of London: one harasser, white

· Essex police: one harasser, white

· Crimestoppers UK: five harassers, all white

· Greater Manchester combined authority: three identifiable harassers; all white

· Plan International (a major children’s charity): five harassers, four white

· West Yorkshire council: five harassers, three white.

· Staffordshire police: five harassers, four white

· Transport for London: one harasser, white.

· Cheshire police: one harasser, white

· the mayor of London (again): one harasser, white

In many of the videos, the victims and brave bystanders who came to their assistance were non-white.

To show that I wasn’t being selective in my viewing, I will point out that I also hit upon two videos where the producers appeared to want to strike more of a balance (so credit to the London borough of Newham and the London borough of Lambeth for that).

Of course I am not arguing that no white man is a sexual harasser. But what this shows is that there is a considerable bias towards depicting white people as the miscreants in these types of production, and one that runs contrary to the general obsession with portraying all parts of our society as ultra-diverse.

The phenomenon is all the more absurd given the nature of the behaviour depicted. Only last month the Centre for Migration Control published analysis showing that a strikingly high proportion of sexual crimes that occurred in England and Wales were committed by foreign nationals. (The top five nationalities by conviction per head were Afghanistan, Eritrea, Namibia, Chad, and Moldova. Native Britons, which all the white perpetrators in the aforementioned videos appeared to be, were well down the list).

Similarly, the rape and torture gangs that systematically targeted young white girls in English cities and towns were comprised almost exclusively of non-white men.

Even allowing for the fact that white people still make up a majority of the population, the prejudicial nature of the videos I viewed seemed obvious.

There was also, of course, the recent Netflix drama, ‘Adolescence’. Of all the tales the scriptwriters could have told about the dangers of radicalisation in our society – remember the Batley teacher? Sir David Amess? Manchester Arena? – they went for the young white boy. Meanwhile, we are all expected to sit back and applaud their courage and insightfulness.

We even had the spectacle in 2022 – a story so ridiculous it deserved more attention than it got – of the Ministry of Justice being forced to withdraw a job advert featuring an image of a real-life prison officer and inmate because the former was white and the latter black, and thus, it was argued, the ad showed an ‘imbalanced power dynamic’ and ‘reinforc[ed] negative stereotypes’. The year before that, Cumbria police publicly apologised after – shock! horror! – it published a leaflet containing an image of a black person dealing drugs.

I mean, come on. I don’t believe in ‘reinforcing negative stereotypes’, but are there no black prisoners or drug dealers? Is that what we are being invited to believe here? It would certainly seem so.

Should any of this trouble us? I think so. When people in authority take it upon themselves to propagate a false view of the world for political ends, we should be concerned. It’s a short step from that to using the sorts of oppressive methods employed by tyrannical regimes to convince the masses that what’s true is false and vice versa. If they believe that the public cannot handle the truth, they will end up justifying any means to ensure it is suppressed.

Why can’t the people responsible for peddling these fantasies treat us for the grown-ups we are? Why must we have hyper-diversity for everything good but old-fashioned white homogeneity for everything bad? Do they not realise that we can see what is going on?

This is not about wishing to demonise minorities or setting people from different ethnic backgrounds against each other; it’s about respecting truth. If anything, the ones creating the resentment and divisions are those who continue to push a bogus reality – one that constantly depicts one group as the sinners. I sense that many white people, who in every sense are anti-racist, are suddenly feeling as though they are an easy target for the political and cultural elites – elites which, for example, lecture them about how they benefit from some sort of inherent ‘privilege’ – and thus feel compelled to huddle a bit more closely together to defend themselves.

Last month, I wrote of the grave warnings sounded by David Betz, a professor of war in the modern world at King’s College, London. Professor Betz had concluded that civil conflict in Britain was inevitable, not least because a previously dominant majority was feeling increasingly alienated and as though it was losing its place in society.

I very much hope he is wrong. But our governing class seems determined to make sure he isn’t.

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