When Will The Trade Unions Speak Up?

UnHerd ✒ It is inevitable that, as the West’s culture war thunders on, we will read yet more reports of individuals being hounded from their jobs, and in some cases forced to withdraw from public life, for saying the ‘wrong’ thing (or even, as sometimes seems to be the case these days, merely for failing to say the ‘right’ thing).

Paul Embery
15-June-2020

The hyper-sensitivity over issues of identity and race that already bedevilled so many of our institutions and workplaces has further intensified in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests and the attendant row over statues.

There is, it seems, no room for disagreement or nuanced debate in some quarters. Those who refuse to support the Black Lives Matter movement, warts and all, are, in some cases, risking their whole careers and reputations.

This pitchfork mentality was illustrated by the affair of the local radio presenter on the Isle of Man who was suspended from his job recently for the heinous crime of challenging the concept of ‘white privilege’ in a debate with a caller. His wasn’t the first and won’t be the last such case.

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