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Stephen Bush
@stephenkb.bsky.social
Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff. Tongue usually in cheek. Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
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To repeat myself: the average person who works in HR, or compliance, indeed the average person *on the left*, let alone the great mass of working age people who did not vote Conservative in 2024, does not agree with this, and believing they do identifies you as someone who badly needs to touch grass

The problem for the left, to quote a key 2012 decolonisation essay, is they think that for ethnic minorities, “the attainment of equal legal and cultural entitlements, is actually an investment in settler colonialism”. In other words, successful integration of ethnic minorities in Western societies merely props up the unjust social structures within society. The goal of the progressive ideology is to replace the nation state with a new multicultural society managed by the bureaucratic class itself. In reality, this will merely replicate post-colonial states with weak national identities. The progressive discomfort of not judging migrants for the benefits they bring means we simply allow too many people for our society or economy to be able to cope with
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SBstephenkb.bsky.social

The reason why the Conservative party shouldn't disapprove of people who 'remain childless' or campaign against living next to someone of a different race is that it is politically difficult to do so, apparently (!!).

The backlash to the progressive ideology and its failures is creating a space for a negative reactionary politics. There is no point in trying to reverse the problems of the modern world by trying to get back to the past or reverse social liberalism. By 2018/19 just 6% disapproved of people remaining childless, just 8% disapproved of cohabitation. Just 29% disapprove of cannabis, 13% of people think homosexuality is morally wrong. Fewer Brits would have a problem living next to immigrants (just 5%), people of a different race (just 2%) or different religion (just 1%) than almost any other country. Sounding like we want to go back to the past makes it hard to get the political consent needed to roll back the bureaucratic class. And while we urgently need to reform institutions, we have to avoid the conspiracy theories that have led to some people on the right – as well as the left – drifting away from deep seated democratic norms. This is the tightrope we must walk.
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OMowenwmichael.bsky.social

I have no idea what this essay is and I am struggling to think of anyone who would agree with this in those terms, and I know similar numbers of Trotskyist activists to Tory voters ffs

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OKomaromalleykhan.bsky.social

I don't know anyone who believes any of this, having worked in race equality for 20-odd years (and with my doctorate in social justice)

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TInikolajbill.bsky.social

Yeah…as someone who works in compliance and in compliance with immigration, I agree with you and also promise you the writings in the essay have never crossed my mind.

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SLluke-minded.bsky.social

Indeed, if anything, people in management who would openly and strongly espouse somewhat abstract/complex views like this and try to enforce them through company policy would fine they may not spend much longer in management

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Stephen Bush
@stephenkb.bsky.social
Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff. Tongue usually in cheek. Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
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