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@ HebrideanUltraTerfHecate
2025-02-26 12:27:39
https://thecritic.co.uk/how-the-british-left-triumphed-and-failed/
Yet despite this crushing defeat, the Left’s social and institutional sway has never been greater. The electoral defeat of Corbynism in 2019 was immediately followed by “Peak Woke” into the 2020s. Once obscure leftist doctrines like critical race theory and gender deconstructivism were now everywhere and had become, to borrow from leftist parlance, the hegemonic ideology. Everyone was forced to become aware of “white privilege” as various arms of the state (which was then run by a Conservative government) lined up to declare themselves “institutionally racist”. Statues were overthrown, buildings and monuments defaced and renamed, and long-dead national heroes dethroned for the crime of having had views that did not match present-day sensibilities. Most sinisterly, those accused of having politically incorrect ideas found themselves hounded out of their jobs for wrongthink.
What occurred was nothing short of a social revolution and a complete reorientation of social mores by the Left. Yet it was a revolution the Left could never truly own, for it was done under a government nominally hostile to their interests, and carried out in large part by their supposed enemies: global corporations. A movement that stood for the abolition of billionaires and taking the fight to global capital suddenly found their social ideas enforced by the likes of Amazon, Nike, and Bank of America, where HR harridans would lecture the Gordon Gekkos of our time about the importance of “checking your privilege” and “being a good ally”.
For instead of being the panacea it was promised to be, immigration has stagnated wages, accelerated housing cost growth, worsened pressure on services, and coarsened public life. The multicultural dream of interesting cuisines and enriching cultural exchange has materialised as endless Turkish barbers and town centres full of foreign men who can but mutter a few words of English, each sporting the garish colours of their food courier employer. The Boriswave has not created a Britain of quaint European bakeries, as one of the Left’s most prominent geriatric millennials would have us believe, but a bizarre and alienating social landscape that seems certain to make Britain far poorer.