The Critic Magazine

Misguided and muddled

● HOW DOES ONE DEFINE “whiteness”? How can one throw a rope around peoples from different parts of the world, with so many contrasts, and set them marching under a single banner, based on the colour of their skin? Nobody with any knowledge of history or geography would want to try.

If we restrict ourselves to Europe, what yokes Italians to Poles, or Norwegians to Greeks? Let’s be even more specific. The United Kingdom was forged by Angles, Saxons, Normans, Celts, Jutes, and Picts. Their descendants are

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