Minette Marrin on how multiculturalism promotes racism

The decades-long quest for multiculturalism in the UK has strengthened rather than weakened racism in the country, writes Minette Marrin in the conservative paper The Sunday Times: "Official insistence on multiculturalism, on positive discrimination and on identifying near-universal 'institutional racism' have produced self-consciousness about race, together with a culture of apartheid and victimhood for many groups. ...Many people, including me, have been saying for years that multiculturalism and positive discrimination have been divisive. They have weakened our shared culture and our common ties and promoted instead, throughout all the public institutions and beyond, a culture of anxiety and resentment about race. The idiotic examples of primary teachers refusing to read out stories about pigs, for fear of offending Muslims, are the tip of an iceberg of fear and guilt heaving underneath the surface of society."

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