Virtually all commentaries on recent events in England have criticised the British elites for spectacularly applying different rules to the white working class and different rules to migrants. This criticism can also be found in top analysts writing from a variety of positions, from the Czech socialist Petr Drulak to Gregory Hood.
Yet I believe it is fundamentally flawed. After all, the current political regime is based on the fact that different rules apply to each group! All the political and economic life of the people of the contemporary West is based on this.
To dispel this misunderstanding, it is essential to understand how current political systems work.
First. People live in a system that has certain rules. The vast majority of them intuitively know those rules and are able to act on them. Research shows, for example, that most people in EU countries understand that freedom of expression is very limited. They are equally aware that criticism of Islam is unacceptable.
Second. At the same time, however, documents that are decades or hundreds of years old, which describe the previous political system and which talk about freedom of expression, democracy and similar historical issues, have not been formally abolished.
Thirdly. At the same time, there is an obligation to claim that those old documents are still valid.
Fourth. Behaving according to those old documents is strictly forbidden.
Of course, it doesn’t work nearly as smoothly as those systems where the actual rules are openly promulgated. But it’s the result of cowardice, where few have the courage to say what goes. Yet it wouldn’t be that hard. If the British government were to decree that the civil rights of all whites with an annual income of less than £100,000 a year were to be abolished, it would not spark a revolution. Everybody knows that’s the case anyway.