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Australia’s Enoch Powell
Writing in The Australian, Peter Ryan tells the story of Geoffrey Blainey, a history professor and dean at Melbourne University who, 20 years ago, became the target of an academic hate campaign and was forced out of his job after he gave a low-key speech warning Australia of the dangers of unassimilable immigration. While there have been similar campaigns in the U.S. against professors with non-liberal views (a famous example is what happened to Arthur Jensen after he published an article on I.Q. and race in the early 1970s), it remains the case that Political Correctness is far worse in the rest of the Western world than here. In Britain, in France, in Australia, in Canada, serious dissent on immigration and other race-related topics has been, literally and officially, forbidden.
Which raises a question that I’ve never heard asked: Why do the Western peoples accept these “hate-speech” codes? Why haven’t there been popular electoral uprisings against them, to force national legislatures to repeal them? After all, despite numerous PC restrictions, the Western countries are still democracies. If their people felt strongly enough against the outrageous restrictions on their speech, they could get rid of them. Email entry |