Woke political correctness — harmless nonsense or sworn enemy of the free society
In January 2020, the greatest living British philosopher, Sir Roger Scruton, died at the age of 75. The British Prime Minister tweeted “We have lost the greatest modern conservative thinker — who not only had the guts to say what he thought but said it beautifully.”
Yet only a year ago, the same Tory government sacked Sir Roger as Chairman of ‘Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission’ for his reported ‘politically incorrect’ remarks in the New Statesman magazine about Soros (Jewish) empire, Chinese and Islamophobia [1].
By then Sir Roger had become an respected philosopher. The Tory government nominate him, successfully, for a knighthood in 2016 and know his character well. But such was the general atmosphere of fear in the British society surrounding ‘political correctness’ on race, gender, religion etc, the government panicked — it was so desperate to come clean, that it made the knee-jerk decision to sack Sir Roger without verifying the facts.
Fortunately a full recording of Sir Roger’s interview with the New Statesman came to light, which proved categorically that the magazine had quoted him out of context in a deliberate and outrage set up to damage him.