Sunday, 20 April 2025

"Don’t turn Renaud Camus into a martyr" | Spiked

Snip:

So it seems the UK can control its borders when it chooses to, after all. This week, the Home Office banned French author Renaud Camus from entering Britain. He was due to appear as a headline speaker at a conference organised by the hard-right Homeland Party in the East Midlands next week.

Although the Home Office has not specified any exact reasons for the ban, beyond Camus's 'presence in the UK' supposedly not being 'conducive to the public good', it is obvious that he is being targeted for his hardline anti-migrant beliefs. You do not have to agree with any of those beliefs to be troubled by the Home Office ban, and the low view it betrays of the British public.

Camus (no relation to the legendary absurdist philosopher, Albert) came to prominence in France in the 1980s for his hyper-explicit, semi-autobiographical gay erotica. However, he is best known internationally for popularising the phrase 'the great replacement' in hard-right and far-right circles. This is the contention that a liberal elite is deliberately 'replacing' white, indigenous Europeans with non-white, mostly Muslim migrants. He writes of a 'genocide by substitution' of white Europeans, organised by a 'genocidal bloc' of political parties and interests. He accuses migrants from the Middle East and North Africa of staging a 'colonial and genocidal occupation' of the West.

Clip above is the beginning of the piece from Fraser Myers. It gets worse, but most important to see the comments. Which run 100% against Myers.

Along the lines of "If it ain't a Great Replacement, then, pray do tell what it is".  Like…

GALAHAD THREEPWOOD

19th April 2025 at 6:37 pm

Given the utter contempt in which the cultural left holds all the values of western civilisation, developed over millennia starting with Christianity and moving through the enlightenment, mass literacy, the Industrial Revolution and late Victorian philanthropy and their active encouragement of barbarian hordes now that they have the legislature, executive, judiciary and broadcast media under their control, why is the great replacement theory such a stretch?

What other explanations spring to mind which rationally explain what is happening?