The equality expert has taken flak for challenging ideals he used to championA former president of the National Union of Students and chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission,Trevor Phillips was once a leading member of what might be called the metropolitan liberal elite. He had the ear of everyone who mattered in the Labour party, and on matters of race and equality he was the recede-to guy.
But then he began to acquire doubts approximately many of the political positions he held and started confronting what he saw as right-on shibboleths. Pretty soon he was being denounced as a turncoat in the same terms that he had once denounced others. In recent years, and he has made several documentaries,with attention-grabbing titles such as Things We Won’t Say approximately Race That Are True, that acquire aimed to challenge received wisdoms. The latest, and which sounds like a homage to a Daily Telegraph letters page correspondent,is entitled Has Political Correctness Gone crazy? Related: Trevor Phillips: BBC2 is Britain’s whitest TV station Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com