The bulk of the population needs to “wake up to the threat of cultural socialism” or face an Orwellian future where people could be sent to jail for refusing to accept the “dominant narrative” on issues like gender, according to a leading political scientist.
Eric Kaufmann, professor of politics at Birkbeck College, University of London, said young people were “in the vanguard” of cancel culture and he added, “It is often the case that young people and students—[in] the Cultural Revolution in China, we saw that as well—tend to be the most taken in by utopian, unrealistic movements.”
Speaking to NTD’s Lee Hall for the “British Thought Leaders” programme, Kaufmann said: “We get a lot of young people just gravitating to a cultural socialist position because they’ve essentially been socialised in school, by social media, celebrity culture, pop culture, athletes etc., have all been weighing in on LGBTQ, Black Lives Matter, MeToo movement.”…