Sixty years after sociologist WEB Du Bois’ death, Brendan O’Neill reflects in Spiked on Du Bois’ writing about the emancipation of slaves. Du Bois identified the “veil of color” as the greatest problem, one he believed could be surmounted – but which O’Neill argues activists today are seeking to make permanent by focusing on the cult of group identity and dissolving individual agency.

Catalyst for Civilizational Collapse
There’s no longer any doubt, writes Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill: the radical left, “keffiyeh-adorned lowlifes”, Islamofascists and the Green Party of England all want the same thing. Not “to end the war in Gaza but to end Israel.” Their behaviour shows they actually enjoy Jewish suffering. If anti-Semites get their way, O’Neill warns, “7 October [will] look like a tea party.” And as Hannah Arendt famously warned, generalized Jew-hatred becomes the catalyst for civilizational ruin.
For more on this topic, check this C2C article by Lynne Cohen.


