West ‘Dead in the Water’ If Identity Politics Persists Warns UK Author

The West will be “dead in the water” if identity politics continue to undermine its culture, a British author warned. Doug Stokes, professor in international security and the director of the strategy and security institute at the University of Exeter, said identity politics are absorbing “way too much” of the West’s cultural bandwidth while there is “bigger existential stuff going on right now,” such as the rise of communist China. Speaking to NTD’s “British Thought Leaders” programme about his upcoming book, Stokes highlighted the Race Equality Charter, to which 100 British universities are currently subscribed. The “alleged anti-racist drive” hardwired the ideas of “structural racism” and “the perfidious malign nature of whiteness” throughout the British university system and it has “all kinds of ramifications for pluralism, equality, fairness, and academic freedom,” Stokes said....