Russia Warns Of Increasing 'Anti-White Racism' In U.S.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday warned that anti-white racism might be building in the United States and said that political correctness "taken to the extreme" would have lamentable consequences https://t.co/lqyE47BIhE

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In an interview with political scientists broadcast on national television, Moscow's top diplomat said Russia had long supported a worldwide trend that "everyone wants to get rid of racism."

"We were pioneers of the movement promoting equal rights of people of any skin color," he said.

But Lavrov stressed it was important "not to switch to the other extreme which we saw during the 'BLM' (Black Lives Matter) events and the aggression against white people, white U.S. citizens."

[...] Lavrov accused the United States of seeking to spread what he called "a cultural revolution" around the world.

"They have colossal possibilities for it," he said in the interview.

"Hollywood is now also changing its rules so that everything reflects the diversity of modern society," he said, calling that "a form of censorship."

"I've seen Black people play in Shakespeare's comedies. Only I don't know when there will be a white Othello," Lavrov said.

"You see this is absurd. Political correctness taken to the point of absurdity will not end well."

Prominent French public figures have increasingly warned that social theories on race, gender, and class being imported from American universities are damaging French society and democratic values.

Late October, French President Emmanuel Macron warned of "certain social science theories entirely imported from the United States." French education minister Jean-Michel Blanquer shared similar sentiments.

"No one has the right to cowardice anymore," said Blanquer. "There is a fight to be waged against an intellectual matrix coming from American universities and intersectional theses, which want to essentialize communities and identities, at the antipodes of our republican model which, for its part, postulates equality between human beings, independently of their characteristics of origin, sex, religion."

Blanquer went on to say that such ideologies are a "breeding ground for a fragmentation of our society and a vision of the world which converges with the interests of the Islamists."

Macron has also taken aim at American media for promoting ideologies that focus on group identity politics.

"When I see... journalists who write in a country that is the heir to the Enlightenment and the French Revolution -- when I see them legitimizing this violence, and saying that the heart of the problem is that France is racist and Islamophobic, then I say the founding principles have been lost," he said last November.

[...] Meanwhile, historian Pierre-André Taguieff said that such ideologies are being driven by a "hatred of the West, as a white civilization."

"The common agenda of these enemies of European civilization can be summed up in three words: decolonize, demasculate, de-Europeanize. Straight white male -- that's the culprit to condemn and the enemy to eliminate," he said.