Almost everyone from the transnational Woke elite and their tribalist proxies has had their say regarding the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the history of Britain, and the Commonwealth at large.

Despite their ‘diversity’, these critics display an ideological homogeneity shaped by post-colonialism and identity politics. Their consensus? The British monarchy and Commonwealth nations are uniquely wicked legacies that must be made to pay for their allegedly terrible existence.

Incidentally, the existence of Britain is the reason these awful people have been able to enjoy political freedom and the highest standard of living known to humanity.

These critics are so comfortable living within their colonial framework (and the nations Britain shaped) spewing bigotry that they have no intention of emigrating to a country more aligned with their worldview. Even if the opportunity were offered, none would skip over to Russia, Cuba, China, or Venezuela.

The bile from such figures need not be mentioned here in great detail. They have attributed to the Royal Family things they could not have humanly done, just as they have slandered British and Anglo-Saxon people for things they had nothing to do with (except the sharing of a skin colour). If anything, it underlines that the most vocal of ‘anti-racists’ are often guilty of the accusations they level at others.

And what of the history of other nations?

Mehreen Faruqi, born in Pakistan, has said some truly awful things about Britain and the Queen but remains quiet about the sins of her home country.

Pakistan is a nation where antisemitism is normalised along with a high degree of intolerance for religious minorities and oppression of a number of ethnic groups within the country. Many of the most vile hate speech directed against Jews and Armenians (despite Pakistan having little to no presence of either) originates from Pakistan-linked accounts on social media.

Pakistan, also an ally of Azerbaijan and Turkey, would be a clearer candidate for the most openly racist country in the world ahead of increasingly diverse Anglosphere nations.

In addition, Turkey not only actively denies the Armenian Genocide, but funds denial of it abroad and has captured swathes of high-powered political figures to its side in the West.

Last year, a video captured a passer-by on a Turkish street calling for the murder of Armenians. Similarly vile social media posts are a regular occurrence on Turkish and Azerbaijani social media, and also among their Diaspora communities. Most recently, a Turkish politician likened Syrian refugees to garbage. A case can be made that Armenians are one of the most racially abused and threatened group of people on social media, subject to degrading and dehumanising language on a regular basis.

Astonishingly, but perhaps not surprisingly, none of this vile hate speech draws condemnation from the West’s extensively-funded multicultural and anti-racism industries.

This comes as no surprise given that many involved in this industry turn out to be peddlers of bigotry and hate, such as one recent beneficiary of Canada’s anti-racism funding programs.

Many of those purporting to be vocally against racism and Islamophobia have been similarly exposed, along with their links to dubious foreign regimes who see the industry as an open door to interference in Western politics.

Erdoğan’s Turkey, along with Qatar and Pakistan, have keenly taken advantage of this system.

The awful legacies left by the Ottoman Empire would easily dwarf any negatives left by the British and other European empires.

Similarly, the Russian Empire, and the Soviet Union which succeeded it, also left a toxic legacy along with virulent racial prejudice manifesting itself in Russia’s attitudes towards neighbouring countries showcased on Putin’s propaganda media outlets. Russia’s ‘Special Military Operation’ in Ukraine encapsulates this dehumanisation, which is especially evident in the rapes and murders of young Ukrainian women by Russian soldiers. And their justification? Ukrainians and other Eastern Europeans must be subject to ‘denazification’, using much the same language the Western Left uses against its opponents.

Racism against non-Russians was a feature of life in the Soviet regime, just as it has been a feature of life in post-Soviet Russia. South African jazz musician and anti-Apartheid icon Hugh Masekela discovered on a tour that Soviet Russia was in fact more racist than South Africa, which must have been a shock given Soviet support for the ANC and ‘anti-racism’ causes globally.

The Soviets created much of the anti-Western propaganda in our societies today to divert attention from this and from the atrocities of communism generally.

In post-Soviet Russia, racist attacks and murders of migrants from the Caucasus and Central Asia have drawn some attention, and highlight the prevalence of racial prejudice against non-Russians from Russia’s former colonies.

Much of the modern debate on race relations in the Anglosphere focuses on colonial legacies and non-white and indigenous peoples. But the alleged racism against them positively pales in comparison to the toxic legacies left behind by Ottoman and Russian imperialism, manifesting itself in a far more violent, hateful, and degrading treatment of ethnic groups from lands colonised by them.

Just ask the Armenians, Assyrians, Ukrainians, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, and Poles about that.

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