All hail the glorious memory of Sister Katherine Johnson.
The evil that the State can do is equal only to the good that it can do. As the New Deal made possible the Civil Rights movement, so the space programme simply rendered racism ridiculous as it sought to make even the resources of the Solar System available to the increase of human flourishing.
There cannot be equality of nothing, and just as the struggles for equality of something and for international peace are integral to each other, so the struggle against racism and imperialism is integral to both of them.
In that vein, what are we to make of the call for all-BAME shortlists from all three candidates for Labour Leader, doubtless to be taken up by the Conservative Party soon enough? Where are we people like Lisa Nandy supposed to go? Is it a matter of Jim Crow's one-drop rule?
If, other than sitting MPs seeking reelection, the parties required all parliamentary candidates to have annual incomes not higher than £25,000, then they would have no shortage either of BAME people, however defined, or of women, who are of course perfectly simple to define. Anyone would think that it were really about class, and that class were an objective relationship to the ownership of the means of economic production.
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Ours is the 2020 Vision of a new political party, a new think tank, a new weekly newspaper, a new monthly cultural review, a new quarterly academic journal, and so much else besides. I will be standing for Parliament again here at North West Durham next time, so please give generously. In any event, please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
Next policy from Labour will be “all trans” shortlists.
ReplyDeleteTo be condemned by Tony Blair and Germaine Greer as too extreme.
The 2020 Left is now too mad for the 1960’s cohort.
You are thinking of the other side. They are the ones who are about to legislate for gender self-identification, with no internal dissent whatever. They have also openly selected candidates based explicitly on being women or BAME for donkey's years (Labour does not the second one), but nobody ever seems to mention it. In spite of which, or perhaps because of it, their members in the country at large have no more ever elected a woman Leader than Labour's have.
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