No Box Left Unticked

The Grauniad’s Cif again, where:

'Mixed-race' is the fastest growing category of identity in the UK. This raises questions of how our understanding of ethnicity affects policy.

There's the rub though, folks.

Trying to impose rigid categories on what is a continuum is always going to leave you looking a bit silly.

Race (in as far as it exists) is such a continuum. So, unless you build high brick walls around the edges of the continents, there is always going to be a bit of... er... leakage and analysis of genetic history will show you it has been gong on for centuries.

The same applies to sexuality - another continuum. Just because some American politician, for example, fancies a same sex encounter once in a while that doesn't mean he's a liar or hypocrite.

Just like one person's bit of office banter is another's outrageous sexism, or someone's honest criticism is another's heinous blasphemy, it shows that rigid lines cannot be drawn where all is flux and reveals just why the leftish notion of achieving utopia through legislation-based social engineering is doomed to failure.