BITE SIZE: More and more of us are being dragged into dismal ethnic "totting-up"

The white majority has learned how to foster a grievance culture of its own and as a result ethnic tensions are rising very quickly.

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DO YOU find yourselves these days “totting-up” the response of the legal and political systems in the UK to gauge whether your own ethnic group is getting a harsher deal than others?

I must confess that I now do this in the field to two-tier justice. For instance, why were only 20 Harehills rioters sent down, but more than 70 Rotherham ones? Can that really be disconnected from the fact that the Harehills mobs were predominantly made up of various ethnic minorities, while the Rotherham ones were overwhelmingly white?

I was similarly annoyed that the murderer in the Adolescence drama was a white boy, despite the homicide perpetration rate among black youths being many times higher. Yet the system is only comfortable dealing with black youths as victims, still giving the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence 32 years ago many times more coverage than the literally hundreds of black-on-black murders which have taken place since in London alone.

Not so very long ago, it would have been unthinkable for me to develop an ethnic radar like this. I don’t like myself scouring for the interests of my “in group” rather than thinking about the good of the country as a whole.

But the leftish British political establishment has developed a new approach to keeping the lid on our society: treat angry minorities with kid gloves, while coming down like a ton of bricks against the white majority. And I am afraid it is coarsening our political debate and leading many hackles to rise among moderate people.

If every ethnic minority is encouraged to complain about alleged discrimination and lobby for concessions, then there will come a moment when the shrinking white majority starts doing the same. Perhaps last summer’s post-Southport rioting marked such a moment.

So our once reasonably harmonious multi-racial society is collapsing amid a move to balkanisation, ethnic rivalries and enclaves.

Just this week Labour scrapped its paltry plan for five local inquiries into the Pakistani-heritage rape gangs. This huge real scandal is apparently deemed much less serious than the fictional plot of Adolescence.

Back in the early 1980s, my favourite footballer was Cyrille Regis – one of the famous “three degrees” at West Bromwich Albion. I remember being incandescent at times that the England manager Bobby Robson always seemed to prefer the much less athletically powerful Paul Mariner to be his first pick centre-forward. Cyrille did not get a fair crack, in my opinion. Now Robson had worked with the dependable but unspectacular Mariner when he was manager of Ipswich Town, so that was possibly the reason for his selections.

These days fortunately there are basically no England football fans who “tot up” the ethnic make-up of the team – we all just want to see the best players on the pitch and almost nobody would claim any kind of colour bar is in operation - that would be absurd in such a ruthless meritocracy as pro-football. However, the England women’s team still attracts squalls of leftist criticism for being predominantly white (never mind that England is still about 80 per cent white). This again demonstrates the bias of elite media and politics: always pushing the idea of barriers being placed in the way of ethnic minority people, while expecting the white population to be constantly apologising for its achievements – the very essence of Woke.

I’ve largely given up on top level club football since the BLM knee-taking, virtue-signalling nonsense was forced upon us a few years back. At least they don’t do it in tier six of the non-league!

But the gradual build-up of reactive white English identity politics – particularly