Race to the Bottom

Well, here's a thing: the great migrant-bashing Muslim-baiting British press, where Winston Churchill and Boris Johnson alike served their apprenticeships in truth-telling and piccaninny depiction, has been accused of racism. Since the accusation was made by a member of the royal family, some sort of rebuttal was considered necessary, and the executive director of the Society of Editors duly belched out his indignation. Not all the newspapers support the same faction of the Conservative Party, and a small minority are even woke enough to pass for Blairite, with that holy fraternity's wholly non-racist concern with bombing the wogs to freedom and British jobs for British workers. Even in 2016, before woke culture descended to its present depths of censorious depravity, a full four-tenths of one per cent of journalists were Muslim and a dizzying one-fifth of one per cent were black. Nevertheless, a hundred and sixty-seven members of the profession have signed a letter rebutting the rebuttal, which just goes to show how morally and culturally insensitive to corporate free speech certain people can be.