It is clear that there has been a shift in the meaning of the term racism. It is no longer the legalised persecution and ill-treatment of a supposedly inferior race. It is more a disease of the soul, or a kind of witchcraft that can be divined only by witch-finders armed with anti-racist equivalents of the Malleus Maleficarum (professional anti-racists need their racists at least as badly as the National Front needs them). And it is clear also where this shift in meaning first occurred: in America, whose trends the British follow as faithfully as any dog follows its master, despite the clear historical differences between our two countries: no slavery or legalised segregation in Britain, for example – that is to say a complete lack, pace McPherson, of institutionalised racism.
Anthony Daniels reviews Elizabeth Lasch-Quinn’s Race Experts. Telegraph UK
