One of the most notable things about the ‘anti-racist’ brigade is just how incredibly racist they are. Not just against white people: their seething hatred for whites is pretty much a given.
No, they’re more incredibly openly racist to black and brown people than George Wallace burning a cross. Take the issue of voter ID, for example: according to the woke ‘anti-racists’, black people are too thick to have a driver’s licence or a birth certificate, let alone to use the internet.
In fact, the wokies are so convinced of black stupidity that they sincerely believe they can’t even do maths, which sounds a lot like projection, frankly.
The latest exhibit in this patronising circus comes from Her Majesty’s Treasury.
The Treasury removed a numeracy test from its graduate scheme to boost diversity.
The government department quietly scrapped the numerical reasoning test from its application process in 2020 owing “to evidence of the test having an adverse impact on candidate diversity”.
That’s bureaucrat-speak for ‘not enough blacks, poofs or women can count’. So they removed the hurdle. Diversity improved. Competence, in a department which, more than any other, surely demands a wonkish obsession with numbers, likely did not.
But if ‘diverse’ groups can’t count, apparently they can’t think or talk, either.
In 2024, the Treasury removed its verbal reasoning test after a previous report by Rare, an ethnic diversity recruitment firm, found that “their candidates tend to struggle with verbal testing in particular”.
Later they scrapped the verbal reasoning test too, replacing it with woolly questions asking – sorry, aksing – whether candidates find it “frustrating when others don’t understand my ideas”. Perhaps they ought to try speaking in legible English, then. Just a suggestion.
Reform UK’s economic spokesman Robert Jenrick put it bluntly: “if people can’t add up, they shouldn’t be in the Treasury”. Quite. The public might prefer its economic policymakers to grasp basic arithmetic without needing a safe space and extra time.
It’s not just the wicked far-righties, either.
In a post on X, Dr Zubir Ahmed, who is reportedly being considered by Andy Burnham to become his health secretary, said: “I’m sorry, but this is insane and helps no one.”
This is the inevitable endpoint of equity dogma. When you cannot raise standards, you lower them. When the numbers refuse to comply with the narrative, you abolish the numbers. The underlying assumption – that certain groups are simply too dim to clear reasonable bars – is the most racist notion imaginable. Yet it sails under the flag of anti-racism.
Britain’s Treasury once helped run an empire on which the sun never set. Now it’s running a remedial class for the terminally diverse. The same pattern repeats across the West: fire departments drop fitness tests, medical schools ease admissions standards and airlines prioritise melanin over merit. All while lecturing the rest of us about ‘equity’.
The real victims are the competent candidates from every background who get passed over, and the public who end up with institutions that can’t count, can’t spell and can’t fly straight. Not least actually competent ‘diverse’ people. They do exist, but they get tarred with the inevitable suspicion that they Didn’t Earn It.
But most of all, the low expectations reveal the soft bigotry of the diversity cult: they don’t believe certain groups can compete on equal terms, so they rig the game and call it justice. This is not only clearly racist, but invariably detrimental to the very ‘diverse’ classes the cult claims to help.
Britain doesn’t need fewer hurdles. It needs higher ones: for everyone. The alternative is a Treasury that can’t add up and a country that can’t compete. That’s not progress. That’s managed decline dressed in a rainbow frock.
