Kenan Malik

1 week ago | tacno.net | Kenan Malik

Politikolog Met Gudvin je ovih dana objavio istraživanje u kojem sugeriše da će „do 2063. godine, beli Britanci postati manjina u Ujedinjenom Kraljevstvu“. Tu tvrdnju mediji razvlače po naslovnim stranama, a čitaoci u raspravama na društvenim mrežama. Kritičari se sprdaju sa Gudvinovom metodologijom, na primer sa definicijom „belih Britanaca“ kao ljudi „čiji nijedan roditelj nije imigrant“ (što isključuje kralja Čarlsa i decu Najdžela Faraža).

1 week ago | pescanik.net | Kenan Malik

„Na zastavi nema crne boje, šljamu marš iz države moje“, tako se 80-ih na fudbalskim utakmicama skandiralo crnim igračima i navijačima. Britanija je danas sasvim drugačije mesto. Manje je starog sirovog rasizma i na sportskim tribinama i u društvu. Pa ipak se ponovo otvara pitanje da li ima i treba li da bude crnih ljudi u Britaniji – i koliko. Ovoga puta ne u obliku rasističkog skandiranja, već u akademskim izveštajima i novinskim kolumnama.

1 week ago | observer.co.uk | Kenan Malik

The lawful activities of Muslims have long been scrutinised for signs of radicalisation. Now the focus is on those with rightwing views, and there’s an outcry If you believe that immigration has destroyed western civilisation, I might think you’ve become too drunk on Robert Jenrick and Allison Pearson, Douglas Murray and Melanie Phillips. The British state, though, may well mark you down as being on the path to terrorism.

2 weeks ago | observer.co.uk | Kenan Malik

Immigration and identity are important subjects, but racialising them is not the answer ‘There ain’t no black in the Union Jack, send the fucking bastards back.” It was a common chant in football grounds in the 1980s, directed at black players, and at black fans, too. Britain is a very different place today, that old raw racism much diminished, both on the terraces and in wider society.

3 weeks ago | observer.co.uk | Kenan Malik

“Since I understood liberalism,” Alasdair MacIntyre once told an interviewer, “I have wanted nothing to do with it.”His death, last month, has robbed us of one of the most important moral philosophers of the past century. Born in Glasgow in 1929, he spent most of his life teaching in America.