How can there be a culture war in the UK when the only culture it has to speak of is copied from the US?
Nirpal Dhaliwal – RT Oct 1, 2020
Britain’s Stockholm Syndrome mimicry of America is at the heart of nearly everything it does, and points to a country that now has no discernible identity of its own.
This week Boris Johnson threatened to appoint right-wing journalist Charles Moore as chairman of the BBC, to fight the Tories’ phantom battle against ‘wokeness’ and in defence of Britain’s traditions and history, under the deluded impression that the corporation – rather than Netflix, YouTube, Amazon or Facebook – is still the decisive broadcaster in the UK.
This denialism protects Britain from a sad truth, which is that all the current noise about ‘cancel culture’ and ‘deplatforming’, as well as the continual arguments about race and gender, have never been about any great struggle to subvert or protect the nation’s identity – which has always been wafer-thin at best – but are merely the latest examples of this country’s dreary Stockholm Syndrome mimicry of America.
Every major cultural shift in Britain is only a delayed and much less interesting repetition of something that happens in the US. For instance, it was very apparent to me that the UK’s version of the Black Lives Matter movement gained momentum only after its American forebear was already established as a global news headline, subsiding immediately as it left the front pages. The racial injustices that exist in Britain – and there are many – are of less relevance to activists than emulating what takes place on the other side of the Atlantic. Britain’s inequalities have not disappeared, but protesters take to the streets only once the American signal has been given.
This Stockholm Syndrome response applies at every point along the political spectrum, and the ‘Woke War’ taking place on UK Twitter and in public institutions – passionately contesting such marginal issues as gender pronouns or the removal of statues – is not a battle for the nation’s soul. It’s just a listless attempt by the British to feel still alive and of significance in the world by copying what is essentially a campus sideshow in the US.
America’s culture war is the organic expression of an immigrant society whose young people continually experiment with self-invention. The British version, however, has no role other than to sustain some fantasy of an ‘Anglosphere’ in which the two countries share equivalence: a pantomime that looks ever sadder and more ridiculous as America continues its transformation into a post-Anglo, Asia-focused power.
While cultural conflicts in the US are distant adjuncts to the true issues that preoccupy a great power of technological, military and economic prowess, in Britain, this nonsense is the main event. Would the boring online contretemps between a children’s author and a few vitriolic transgender activists – as has happened with JK Rowling – ever become the leading topic of discussion in the US? Of course not.
With their media, economy and capital city wholly dominated by foreigners, the British are now a colonised people, trudging exhaustedly towards a globalised extinction, boxing with shadows to distract themselves along the way. This is not a great tragedy, but merely the gentle and thankfully bloodless return to historical normality.
Before they fluked their way into an empire – having never fought anything like the wars the Romans, Turks and most others had to wage to gain theirs – the British were nobodies, and that nothingness is the natural state to which they always had to return now that they no longer have millions of colonial subjects to expend as coolies and cannon-fodder on their behalf.
With only their native talents and resources to depend on, a dull but comfortable mediocrity, safely cocooned within the wider Western world, was always the best that was on offer to them – becoming another Belgium, of sorts, but with a less interesting range of beers, albeit a livelier indie-rock scene.
Today’s loud but entirely phony culture war fulfils Britain’s desperate need for excitement, giving the lives of those on the Left and Right a hallucinatory sense of urgency – saving them from the depression, alcoholism and suicide that would otherwise consume many. Both sides pretend to be on the frontline in a struggle for human emancipation and free expression, when, in truth, any outcome will be decided over coffee in a faculty somewhere on America’s East Coast.
Whatever changes Charles Moore might bring to the BBC can only have a fraction of the influence on Britain as the latest Kim Kardashian post on Instagram. The UK’s so-called culture war was lost long before it ever got started.
Nirpal Dhaliwal is a novelist and journalist whose work has appeared in the Financial Times, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The Guardian, Haaretz, and India Today. His novel, Tourism, published by Vintage Books, is available here. Follow him on Twitter @nirpaldhaliwal.
Britain lost its sovereignty years ago to the United States of Atrocity. That is proven by its foreign policy of attacking the same countries as the US does, and accusing the same people (Putin, Maduro, Assad etc) of doing things the US engineered itself.
Just look at the Assange show trial where the prosecution has clearly been taken over by the US itself. I suspect the British government was warned if Assange fled the Ecuador Embassy the US would drone-strike him in Britain’s streets to stop him. Either that or they’d put armed US troops on Britain’s streets “to guard their interests”, something no sitting British government could explain and survive. Britain is a captured colony of the US just like Hawaii is, and that way the US doesn’t have to make us another star on Old Glory.
I have a school freind i kept in touch with, he is a manager of several factories in the UK
He told me the Government told the CBI ( confederation of British industry) to employ foreign first, he said it breaks my heart when Englishman come to the factory gates loking for work and i have to turn them away
I spoke to a big issue seller who told me he ad a freind started applying for jobs using polish versions of their name, in every case they got an interview until it was discovered they were English then they were shown the door
Poles in the UK sent home last year alone £ 8 bilion. if our own people were employed this money would not have been lost but still in circulation for all to enjoy
Our politician are traitors how young men can join the armed forces to fight these illegal wars for a corrupt govrnment is beyond me
Denis Healey said ” nothing that happens in politics is accidental but usually planned years in advance ”
And so it is wake up Sheapeares Eglishmen where is your heart ?
Wot?…no mention of the Jews role in all this!?.
Incidently MOORE….is a crypto jew….the name comes all the way from Spain…..
As this Truthseeker “special” makes no mention of the Jews pivotal role and since this individual has had work published in elite vehicles like The Financial Times you could hazard a guess that this article has its origins from within the English secret police apparatus.
This “apparatus” has been functioning since at least the times of Shakespeare….infact Shakespeare was even on their books.
The elites are reviving Spitting Image as a distraction for the coming turmoil…..a more humane exercise than the Roman circuses…..the publics Fury they hope will be diverted onto some paper mache puppets….it will probably work.
Any outcome “will be decided over coffee….in Israel”.
Just had a several rounds of gunshots loosed off outside my flat……obviously with the tacit consent of the police…..the shots echoed enough for them to be heard at a distance.Its laughable nonsense of course as if anyone would be intimidated by this (anyone familiar with the tactics of the intelligence thugs whose sole purpose is to protect the elite interests.)
it took a few thousand British to rule you for 400 years, and drag your toerag “country” into the 20th mr Dhaliwal.
Dont write us off yet as you obviously have no idea of current geoploitics or the real players
I have great respect for Nirpal Dhaliwal and the thoughts presented so cogently.
At the same time I think they are slightly off base, or at least a bit narrower than the reality.
And the reality? There is a parasite culture pressing down on the UK, just as in the USA, Canada, Australia… indeed, most all of what once constituted the European or European-derived nations of the world.
This parasite culture is actually an anti-cultural attack against the morals, minds, and even existence of cohesive European nations. If this parasite succeeds in an attack against all of us, there will be no future in any meaningful sense European.
What IS happening is a “deracination” project that comes before the depopulating of the native peoples. Essentially the USA might be further along in that… but maybe not. Things have been accelerating an increased tempo lately. The disorder is quite advanced. The parasite culture is winning.
This article is an incredibly disparaging article towards the British people and really should be seen as such. It’s classic disinformation.
What do I mean:
“The racial injustices that exist in Britain – and there are many – are of less relevance to activists than emulating what takes place on the other side of the Atlantic. Britain’s inequalities have not disappeared, but protesters take to the streets only once the American signal has been given.”
This is disinformation. Were the author honest, he would writing about the blatant racism and prejudice from non whites to whites, most notably black Africans, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis. There is little, if any racism towards non whites in the UK, simply because the British know that to do so, will land them in jail, such as the poor sod, who left bacon outside a Mosque, was then sent to prison for 6 months where he died.
“America’s culture war is the organic expression of an immigrant society whose young people continually experiment with self-invention…..”
The young people in the USA and the UK are nothing more than tools of Jews, who manipulate the whites into hating their culture and nation, supporting blacks who hate whites and to promote the insanity that we’re all the same. America is a land where its youth are either living inside a video game, Marvel Avenger fanatics or social justice warriors, protecting blacks who are 6 times more likely to murder whites. Whites are being conditioned to believe the madness that the reason racism exists is because of whiteness and whiteness has to be destroyed. Yes, white people, in the west now believe that they have to kill their nation for the world to be happy. Morons.
“Before they fluked their way into an empire – having never fought anything like the wars the Romans, Turks and most others had to wage to gain theirs….”
More utter ignorance from this Indian fool. The European peoples spent their history warring with one another. Those on the island known now as Britain, all they ever did was war with one another. Their history is war. As much as I disagree vehemently with the British Empire, knowing it was clearly the creation of the Jew, at its height it controlled 25% of the world and its population, hence the saying, “the sun never sets on the British Empire”. You can’t ‘fluke’ that.
Nirpal Dhaliwal is nothing more than another immigrant, working for the Jew media, promoting more division and demolition of Britain. He hates Britain so much, yet continues to live here, when he could hope onto a train and go back to India anytime he wants. He’s another puppet of international Jewry and will remain in his job and most certainly attain promotion, if he keeps writing ‘hit piece’ article like this. Always be wary of anything from RT. They really are masters at disinformation. Putin is not the hope people say he is. He’s merely playing his part in the Hegelian dialectic.
The Brits lost their identity when the Satanists were allowed into the country back in the days of Oliver Cromwell.
The reason we have US bases here is because in w w 2 churchill sold the country to the US jewishh bankers
they own us now
The government has the morons following their dogs about cleaning up after them and carrying bags of dog shit about. What does anyone expect from brainwashed cowards like that. Rebellion, civil war? Ha! not a chance, England is dead and gone.
How about another joke, Murray?
What do you get when millions of white Christian British & American idiots obey their Jewish Overlords & obliterate pro-white Germany in WWII, so a cabal of mongrel maniac Jews can rule the world?
I’ll tell you what you get. You get what you f****ng deserve.
White elephant I am completely on board with your post and to the rest Britain has not lost her identity and no one owns us and if they think they do they are about to get a very rude awakening soon. We British will not be taken easy we never have and, remember this our country for centuries have been invaded and we have seen them all off. The Romans tried and failed and also those that came after them. Never write us off we are a surprising lot.
As for Nirpal Dhaliwal he should be a little more respectful to his host country and grow up but if we are as bad as he feels we are well, there’s the door bye, bye.
If I may quote Joker above to make my point as well:
“What do you get when millions of white Christian British & American idiots obey their Jewish Overlords & obliterate pro-white Germany in WWII, so a cabal of mongrel maniac Jews can rule the world?”
That pretty much explains the whole problem we have today, That’s why the culture of all formerly white homelands is so mixed up. The Jews have demanded we change immigration, have fewer babies, education, the media, government policy, to suit them and their anti-white agenda. But listen Nirpal Dhaliwal, you’re only in Britain because of white traitors. In fact the same goes for all western white countries with large third world immigration policies. Canada is a case in point.
Foreigners gloating about the misfortunes of a White country are not “truth” and not relevant to us. If he is in London he only sees a place we vacated, and if we copy America we are just copying our old selves. Its roots are mostly British.
There is no “ownership” of people where they are not shameless mercenaries. The power of money is only the power to bribe people to do what they would not do. With principles they still won’t. One of the big flaws in Germanic people is that they will fight wars for money against anyone. As for the British Empire the second phase was Jew money whilst the first phase was Protestant although still a Jewish attack on the Church, then dominant.
As an American, I can tell you that things described by the author are identical in America and all over European people’s countries. It is a total attack on everything European whether in Europe or across the pond. In New “Mexico “ ( misnomer) USA which was colonized by Spain , communists and rabble BLM & Antifa are tearing down statues and plaques. This all in the name of re-writing history to suit the current false narrative that Europeans were never here & made no positive contributions. Our new Judaic / communist overlords are seeing to it that theirs protocols are fulfilled. As In Orwell’s 1984 novel the MSM AKA ministry of propaganda continues to churn out lies denigrating ALL white culture. All people of European descent have to realize were all in the same boat , sinking fast! Europe unite!!
I stopped watching RT when they started showing rolling 24/7 footage of ambulances in line outside Moscow hospitals at the start of the Covid hoax. This loser isn’t an immigrant, he was born in London and his claim to fame is that his infidelities, during his marriage to the neurotic diarist Liz Jones, were shared in excruciating detail with the mortified readers of the Mail on Sunday magazine. Liz went on to bigger and better things, he’s writing envenomed polemics about Britain for RT.
If immigrants couldn’t make a go of a civilized nation in their home countries then they won’t fare any better when Whitey is gone.
There was a lot more going on then just armies making colonies. When Whitey landed in Africa, for example, they hadn’t even invented the wheel.
When Whitey goes, everything will collapse.