Defend Your Country at Your Peril

Spectator US
May 3, 2021

The default position of Western elites is to condemn one’s country as a hellscape of inequity, racism and injustice. Lionel Shriver sees grave geopolitical implications in this self-mortification. In the Spectator US, Shriver tells how progressive propaganda establishes a moral equivalence between, say, individual police killings and putting 1 million Uighurs in forced-labour camps. 

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