This academic said "white lives don't matter" on Twitter. She was rewarded by Cambridge University with a professorship. Tell me more about how anti-racist my country is. https://twitter.com/PriyamvadaGopal/status/1276122374010798080

If we must have laws against certain forms of speech then they need to be applied consistently to everyone. But in Britain in 2020 we see that skin colour and political beliefs buy you a get-out-of-jail-free card. This is... foreign. This happens in places like America, not here.

Had the racist said "black lives don't matter" we all know the full force of the law and of academia would have been unleashed against her. But by targeting a different skin colour, she gets a reward! We are legitimising and encouraging the public expression of racist views.

Whatever the hell's going on, I want it to stop. I want to continue living in a country where the colour of my skin and my parents' skin doesn't make a difference any more. I want this kind of racism by anyone, irrespective of who they are, punished.

For decades we as a society have fought racism by white people against non-white people. That is noble and wonderful; it's why I can be relaxed about who I am. But now we are turning a blind eye to racism against white people. It cuts both ways.

When you apply double standards, you build resentment, hatred and contempt. I don't want to live in a society full of those things. I want to live somewhere where everyone is equal, not where you're exempt from the norm because the right kind of people agree with your views.

I've never really thought of myself as mixed-race until the last couple of months. I'm just British, yknow? But now the ugly spectre of race politics - a term I associate with people like Enoch Powell and Malcolm X - is part of everyday UK. My skin colour matters, to some.

I don't know where I'm going with this. But when global British institutions make a song and dance about giving a professorship to a woman who thinks it's cool to say hateful things about people based on the colour of their skin, something has gone very wrong.

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