DIANE ABBOTT AND A BLACK AND WHITE WORLD

Diane Abbott (1992); photograph © Geoff Wilson/National Portrait Gallery This essay, on the debate about Diane Abbott’s views on race and the Holocaust, was my Observer column this …

Source: DIANE ABBOTT AND A BLACK AND WHITE WORLD,Keenan Malik

If we want to nurture again the kind of radical universalism that once imbued antiracism, we need not just to challenge arguments such as Abbott’s, important though that is. We need also to challenge the malevolent claims promoted by the likes of Jenrick and Braverman, and which carry with them the weight of state enforcement. To challenge the one but not the other is performative signalling at its worst.