MEGHAN AND HARRY

Amidst the fallout of the disgraceful attack on the Royal Family by the Sussexes, Omid Scobie, who co-authored Finding Freedom, a biography of Meghan and Harry, said:

‘If it’s not considered appropriate to acknowledge racism or racial ignorance when aimed at a mixed-raced senior royal, then how should the 54 countries of the Commonwealth and its predominantly black, brown and mixed population feel about the realm’s figurehead belonging to an institution that claims to celebrate “diversity” but in practice appears to uphold white supremacy?’

In that one paragraph, Scobie managed to raise a number of issues. First, there is the phrase ‘racism or racial ignorance’; second, there is the attempt to drive a wedge between the Commonwealth countries and the UK; third there is the attack on the Royal Family as an ‘institution’; and fourth, there is the designation of the Royal Family as upholding ‘white supremacy’.

1. Scobie equates so-called ‘racial ignorance’ with racism. Either someone accepts the politically-correct narrative and obeys it, or else one is racially ignorant – ie a racist.
2. The Commonwealth is the legacy of the British Empire. It allows the UK to retain links to its former colonies and for them to have a degree of unity. Its main activity is to facilitate the distribution large sums of foreign aid that the UK gives (and also the aid from Canada, Australia and New Zealand). The recipients of that aid are free to refuse it and even to leave the Commonwealth at any time.
3. The Royal Family is an institution and Scobie attacks that part of it directly. The condemnation of the institution as being insufficiently committed to ‘diversity’ is a trap. What is intended is for the institution to have more non-White, anti-Monarchy, politically correct people foisted upon it, so that they can undermine the Monarchy and hence the UK from within.
4. White supremacy should not come into it. The Royal Family has always gone out of its way to engage with the immigrant communities and with the Commonwealth countries. Of course, the Queen is the ‘Queen of England’ and the English are white. For Scobie, and the politically correct, being white is akin to white supremacy. For them, unless an institution advocates political correctness, then it upholds white supremacy.

Political correctness is a belief system and Scobie is a fanatical believer, as is both Harry and, especially, Meghan.

Apparently, not only did Meghan complain to Good Morning Britain regarding Piers Morgan, who subsequently left his role as the programme’s main presenter, but also complained to the regulator Ofcom. Ofcom defines ‘hate speech’ thus:

‘All forms of expression which spread incite, promote or justify hatred based on intolerance on the grounds of disability, ethnicity, social origin, sex, gender, gender reassignment, nationality, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, colour, genetic features, language, political or any other opinion, membership of a national minority, property, birth or age.’

We will soon see what Ofcom makes of the Meghan complaint.

The Sussexes’ allegations have been picked apart by newspapers and others. The inconsistencies are numerous. The UK public have not been impressed with those allegations, although the television media has been. The Sussexes and their acolytes, including Oprah Winfrey, have launched a malicious attack against the UK that is founded upon cultural Marxism (eg see here). That attack should be treated with the contempt it deserves.