BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN
A few years ago, I wrote about the circular firing squad of Identity Politics:
‘Leftists by embracing identity politics have become the new racists – they have become so blinkered in the self-destructive, inward-pointing, circular firing squad of postmodernist neo-Marxism that they have lost the ability to see or understand how intolerance shapes politics’
I stick by the analogy.
Today we see the end days of the identity politics era.
There will come a day some time in this decade when diversity officers will get asked what they do for a living apart from creating wholly unnecessary division, and they will get the sack; when corporate social responsibility payments will be properly vetted to make sure they no longer fund any loopy extremist causes; when universities will have an external auditor with teeth foist upon them to assess the excellence of the lectures and seminars they are giving in light of dwindling student numbers, employers snubbing ‘unemployable’ graduates, and the substantial payments young people are surrendering; when successful business people from ethnic minorities step in to prevent the racism perpetrated by race-baiting ethnic minorities against whites in the name of diversity; when food security is taken seriously again and tree planters and solar farm builders shall be required to argue sense before rendering beyond use too many of Britain’s food-producing fields.
America will strike back first. It’ll take another election there and the demise of Sleepy. Britain will catch on, as we often do, a year or two later. Nonsense will be restored to sense. Facts will once again trump feelings. The Left will become the Left again and those lefties and especially leftie gays, who feel more at home today amongst classical liberals and conservatives, will pinch themselves and wake up from their current, absolutist-dominated nightmare.
At first there will be extremists who benefit from the resetting of social norms but they too shall be sieved by common sense and soon returned to their box. The green ink of yesteryear suddenly visible again after years of absurdity and puritanism turned green too often into red.
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So too will the Countryside be far better off when reality returns. Absolutists eat absolutists and the resultant infighting merits the finest popcorn.
Just as in my article about Identity Politics I identified the Trans issue as being at the core of the implosion – describing those who went through with trans ops and then rebelled against the Trans cult as being kryptonite to the Identity Politics movement (look up Tavistock) – I can see the fissures already starting to appear in the animal rights extremists’ arguments, especially now the most high-pitched banshees among them have declared themselves vegan only.
When any extremist movement becomes holier than thou – ask Algerians or Ms Begum – the end result is a slippery slope of out-holying holies to the point where infighting rips any semblance of order or function apart.
Just look at the extremist (some would argue terrorist) hunt sabs. Their Hunt Saboteurs Association has just embroiled itself in a wholly unnecessary argument, because of its vegan only agenda, with the nature charities, the WWF and the RSPB. Now the HSA does not approve of either charity, despite both being invaded by animal rights placers and eco-loons in recent years.
According to Derby Hunt Saboteurs:
“The RSPB employs blood sport enthusiasts to kill wildlife. In one year, they killed 598 foxes”.
And Derby Hunt Saboteurs are absolutely right, I for one enjoyed some delicious venison over Christmas from a shooter who shoots deer on one well-known charity’s estates. It was lovely and succulent, and my guests and I washed it back with a delightful Pinot Noir. Were we not preoccupied by more amusing banter, we might have toasted that charity’s hypocritical placers who fully comprehend predation and wildlife management without for one second admitting so publicly.
Do you see what I mean? By their methods of cancelling and ‘purifying’, extremists cut off core support, cause division and the relative mainstream then asks itself increasingly whether they are necessary allies or associates. The big tent is habitable before too many of those let inside start pissing in it and inevitably cause ruptures.
The circular firing squad will be replicated in the Countryside. Mark my words.
Forget how WOKE are you. How VEGAN are you? How ANIMAL ANTHROPOMORPHIC are you?
They are small beer nationally but take a look at the HSA and the League Against Cruel Sports (LACS) who have been at loggerheads for decades. So, what next for LACS? Will LACS now declare itself a vegan-only organisation? It ought to. Overnight. And what about PETA? HSUS? Those dreadful cadaver-munching bastards over at Born Free, should they not be condemned and excommunicated too?
And what about all those other commercial zoos now masquerading as ‘sanctuaries’, run by animal rights fanatics who used to protest outside the labs? All those animal rights activists who were so anti the circuses must have a real bee in their balaclava about zoos, right? The exploitation of animals for commercial purposes was one of the reasons they wanted circuses closed down, but now their allies are making a load of capitalist wonga and social currency from keeping animals in zoos, so how do they feel? The zoo cafeterias are selling BLT sandwiches! Good God, close them down!
That’s why when people tell me how awful things have become and quote increasingly mad examples, most of which are spinning around the unreal world of Twitter as outrage porn, I chuckle. These really are the end days of Identity Politics. The circular firing squad is not survivable.
The self-destructive, inward-pointing, circular firing squad is the greatest noose the Left ever created for itself, and it can’t help but regularly test it with wayward comrades. Cancelling is in their DNA now. It will take a downfall of Corbynite proportions to knock sense back into their comrades, most of whom will escape to the metaverse to live out their PTSD.
The future is bright. No, it is golden. The inevitable recalibration will bring with it a return of liberties which in recent years average Joe has had to think twice about before reaching for.
And all this talk about the ‘decline of the West’ is mere hyperbole, as I discussed over a pint and pie at the rugby the other day with an Iraqi more British than the most British Britisher I’ve ever met.
The deer sheds its antlers. The axolotl can regenerate, repair or replace its arms, legs, tail, lower jaw, brain and heart. Humans shed their skins.
The West has been merely experiencing a mid-life crisis; a pre-AI metamorphosis during which, for the first time in its history, a blip of green-inkers and other outliers and freaks with loud voices and an ability to manipulate social currency found themselves heard.
They shall be gone. Boxed away. Never muted but neutered. Exposed. Denuded. Certainly ridiculed. Their default division-creating – masquerading as unifying – shall be busted and outed for all to see.
Why?
Facts always win in the end. And facts never cared a jot about feelings.
Dominic Wightman is Editor of Country Squire Magazine.
