Our psychosis about racism after George Floyd died under the knee of a Minneapolis policeman in 2020 has led to the reciprocal murder of a clean-cut young white man 4,000 miles away in England.
On a city street last December, Vikrum Digwa, 23, murdered Henry Nowak, 18, with the kirpan dagger he carries as a Sikh. Digwa stabbed Nowak five times, once fatally in his chest, and also in his face and legs.
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Police officers extraordinarily failed to notice this when they arrived at the scene, despite Nowak bleeding out in front of them, drowning in his own blood, and gasping, “I can’t breathe.”
These were also the last words of Floyd, a crazed black drug abuser, in Minneapolis. But Nowak was white and his killer, found guilty of murder this week, was not. So police officers, indoctrinated with multicultural nonsense, allowed their racist anti-racism to obliterate common sense and the evidence of their eyes.
Digwa accused Nowak of racism, so police handcuffed the victim and dickered around while he died. The killer denied stabbing Nowak, to which a female officer replied, “I know, but we have to check, don’t we?” This sickening response captures two appalling yet unsurprising facts: First, anti-racism supersedes the police duty to respond to a life-threatening emergency and to investigate the truth; second, their modus operandi is to proceed to a forgone conclusion while checking a few bureaucratic boxes on the way.
When Floyd died, Britain imported America’s mad response. London crowds protested police brutality and systemic racism by taking a knee outside Parliament and, like their American counterparts, chanting, “Hands up — don’t shoot.” None of them seemed to remember that British police do not carry firearms.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, who was then leader of the opposition, ostentatiously took a knee for a photo op. But there was no knee for Nowak. In the House of Commons, Starmer condemned Nigel Farage, leader of the Reform Party, who spoke for many when he raised concerns that Britain was suffering under “two-tier” racially biased policing.
MPs barracked Farage, accusing him of inciting nativist white violence in the wake of the Nowak jury’s verdict and the release of police bodycam footage. Farage had earlier said the public response to the murder and the ideologically driven incompetence of the police should be one of “pure cold rage.” That would seem an appropriate response to such a ghastly incident, massively compounded by doctrinaire official bungling.
The charge of incitement flowed from suggestions to that effect by left-wing media. The BBC misquoted Farage, saying he called for “white cold rage,” which is much more easily construed as racial provocation. The Beeb apologized, but even if we give it and its reporter the benefit of the doubt and accept that the falsehood was unintentional, it was clearly the product of bias against a politician who committed the unforgivable sin of speaking up for the English and for the England they are losing.
The Nowak incident is the result of viral and obsessive anti-racism. It demonstrated its corrosive effect (which is deliberate) on the institutions and practices of liberal society under the rule of law. And it exposed the fatally weak indulgence of Western societies, which do not merely accept their doom, but nurture the violent tribalism of aliens who are bringing it about.
