Qualia

What I want to emphasise about this is that turning a blind eye to grooming gangs was just one example of how Britain's “multicultural success story” actually works: the state and its allies repeatedly lying to the public to maintain the idea that all is well. It happens when we discuss economics — the repeated assertions that low-skilled, low-wage migrants were somehow rocket-fuel for growth rather than the obvious fiscal burdens they turned out to be — it happens when we discuss crime, where the Home Office refuses to collect data on the nationality of those arrested, it happens when we downplay the anti-Israel, anti-Semitic marches and the motivations of those taking part, or when we engage in convoluted games to maintain that huge levels of population turnover have left us culturally “enriched” rather than fragmented. Anything that risks “unrest” — people realising that migration might be good for the state, but not particularly for them — has to be quashed. This is why the Home Office contains its own domestic propaganda unit (RICU) to push narratives in the wake of terror attacks, this is why flare-ups of discontent are policed far more aggressively than other forms of protest, and this is why we have such extensive and evolving laws aimed at suppressing speech that might be “offensive” or meet the chosen definition of “incitement”; the idea that journalists like Allison Pearson might wake up one morning to find the police at their door if they express their views too directly is a feature, not a bug. The result has been a subtle but effective crushing of the discourse into a narrow range of acceptable opinions, which is why X and Elon Musk were the focus of so much ire over the summer. Half of the conversation about “disinformation” appears to be about undesirable information instead; things that are true, but are meant to be unspoken. Speech that is legal but harmful should be suppressed. At the same time, other forms of disinformation are enthusiastically embraced. Tenuous arguments claiming industrialisation and modernity are the results of slavery or theft are widely pushed, alongside the idea that the “Windrush generation” rebuilt the country after the war. Britain has always been diverse, and that diversity has always been the source of its prosperity. So any opposition to migration, or dissatisfaction with its results, is rooted in ignorance. The Labour party appear to be preparing to embed this even further into the curriculum over the coming Parliament.