What I Did On My Holidays

‘Last week, Tory leader David Cameron spent two days in Birmingham with the Rehmans’, at The Grauniad’s Cif site, to which I appended this comment:

Three things need to be done in this situation:

1. Dump the completely misguided, meaningless, stupid and divisive notion of 'race'. Treat all people as they are - equal.

2. Stop the notion of 'multiculturalism' which is just as misguided, meaningless etc. as above. Culture is a process, not a 'thing'. We should be building on the post-Renaissance post-Enlightenment culture that has been so successful for the west, spreading it around the world, and taking on board what those other parts of the world can add to it, as - we well know, it is not perfect. But it is the best (don't be frightened of that word) there is.

3. Only in a truly secular society can people be free to practise whichever - or none - religion they like free from external pressure. That includes school which should be secular too, treating all religions (and none) equally and fairly. But - more importantly - refusing to bow to pressure from ANY religion as to what should be taught, how the pupils should dress and so forth.

‘Race’ as it is currently defined, along with ‘multiculturalism’ are concepts created and defined by the left – both of which concepts (as with most things created and defined by the left) are seriously flawed (by way of example: the ‘race’ notion struggles with the notion of the ‘mixed-race’ person, and multiculturalism cannot cope with a collision of cultures). Both concepts – along with many other concepts based ultimately on Marxist etc analysis – have proved unable to cope with modern complexity and should therefore be dumped, even if it means a massive loss of jobs in the race-relations industry and allied trades.