Yes, the Royal Family is white. So what?
The actress’ undignified comment is merely another instance in the continual slighting of Caucasians.
The leadership of the Chinese Communist Party is awfully Han Chinese. The Indian cabinet, too, appears to be horrifically full of ethnic Indians. The Japanese Imperial Family? Horribly Japanese. Same goes for the House of Saud too – frightfully Saudi.
It is a quirk of language that we often use words with a negative connotation as synonyms for ‘very’. They are, however, always followed by a suitable positive adjective when the intention is to emphasise something good - think ‘awfully delicious’.
When they are followed, however, by a negative, their effect is to emphasise something’s undesirability. Think ‘horrifically cruel’ or ‘frightfully evil’.
What, does my kind reader think, do most people in the public eye intend when they utter the word ‘white’?
It is a word forever suffixed with a negative. White privilege, for example, or white tears. Indeed, anyone daring to write something vaguely positive about white people is setting themselves up for social ostracism and a speedy descent beneath the waves of public acceptability.
Even AI doesn’t rate whiteness much, no doubt a reflection of the worldviews of those in charge of such projects:
Such thoughts are inspired by Andjoa Andoh’s comments at the Coronation; one of the most significant possible moments of our country’s ancient monarchy. She stated that the day had ‘gone from the rich diversity of the Abbey to a terribly white balcony.’
One must assume that ‘terribly’ serves purely to enhance the negativity of ‘white’, unless I am fully misreading her.
Whether such whiteness is a criticism preserved for just the Royal Family (despite the presence of non-white Royals) or whether it is a broader indictment on the notion that white families exist at all is unclear. Yet the implied impermissibility of a white Royal Family in the United Kingdom – one of European civilisation’s most significant nations – is clear.
This is, of course, something reserved purely for European and New World states. That the Thai monarchy is Thai and the Omani is Omani is taken as axiomatic.
The actress’ undignified comment is merely another instance in the continual slighting of Caucasians – the only ethnic group for whom it is societally encouraged to demean. After all, Oxbridge professors can state ‘white lives don’t matter’ and face no consequences whatsoever. If moving in the ‘right’ circles, to debase ones own skin colour (if white) is encouraged and for others to prescribe ill to pale skin expected.
Given that our society has been railroaded into a grand experiment whereby our demographics are changed beyond recognition within the space of one lifetime (with, for example, only 21.5% of inner London school children being classed as ‘white British’), to assume that there are no longer-term risks of this vilifying of the majority group is, I suspect, naïve.
Everyone is terrified of touching this topic, knowing correctly that to broach it renders you a social pariah. Yet to continue down the current path out of nothing else but cowardice will result in something far worse.
