The Southport Stabbing: Europe's Genius Undone by Its Folly

By Sean Gabb @ Sean Gabb Newsletter

 

On the 29th July 2024, a man went on a stabbing spree in Southport, Merseyside, killing three children and injuring ten others. The attacker, Axel Muganwa Rudakubana, the son of Rwandan immigrants, was arrested at the scene. By all accounts, the attack was shocking not only in its savagery, but in its attendant circumstances. 

Witnesses report that Mr Rudakubana shouted slogans as he killed that suggested he was an Islamic terrorist. Almost at once, social media was filled with questions and with speculation. Also, protests began in several northern cities – Manchester, Leeds, and Bradford, for example – where demonstrators blamed the Government and the ruling class for immigration policies that had made the killings both possible and likely.

Instead of considering these protests and promising to address the causes of the crime, the British Government and the legacy media focussed on managing the narrative and silencing comment on the immigration policies that had allowed Mr Rudakubana’s family into the country. Keir Starmer, the new Prime Minister, seemed more worried about potential “violence against Muslims” than the actual brutality of Mr Rudakubana’s attack on English people. 

“For the Muslim community I will take every step possible to keep you safe,” he said in his first public statement on the killings. On the protests he added: “It is not protesting, it is not legitimate, it is crime. We will put a stop to it.” 

His focus was not on the victims, but on ensuring that no one questioned the system that had allowed this to happen.

In the days after the attack, several men were arrested for spreading what the government called “misinformation” online. Their crime? Posting details about Mr Rudakubana’s background and motivations—details that turned out to be broadly correct. Despite being right, these men were prosecuted and imprisoned under Britain’s hate speech laws. The most recently convicted, Andrew McIntyre, was sentenced earlier this month to seven and a half years in prison for postings on social media. Peter Lynch, a man of 61, was sent to prison last August for two years and eight months for the crime of shouting “scum” and “child killers” at the police. Last October, he hanged himself in prison. I am told he was seriously “mistreated” in prison. British prisons for many years have been overcrowded. Room was found for these prisoners of conscience after the Government began releasing violent criminals.

The injustice of this is glaring. These men were punished not because they lied, but because they spoke approximate truths the government wanted to suppress. Their imprisonment sends a clear message: in modern Britain, it’s better to be wrong on the side of the Government than right and against it.

A Carefully Managed Narrative

The media played its part in the cover up. At first, Mr Rudakubana was described, without name, as “originally from Cardiff. It took days before we were told he was a child of asylum seekers from Rwanda. Even then, the coverage was carefully balanced by a picture of him as a respectable schoolboy – not at the beast in human form shown by more recent photographs.

Only much later, when the story had faded from the headlines, did the real facts emerge. Mr Rudakubana was not just a troubled individual. His phone contained materials linked to terrorism and genocide, and his actions appeared to have an ideological motivation. Yet by the time these details came out, they barely caused a ripple. The public had been moved on to the next distraction.

A Chinese Perspective on Immigration

Now, though born in this country, I am of entirely Chinese ancestry. None of my ancestors fought at the Battle of Hastings, nor took part in the Civil War. Nor is any of them likely to have held an opinion on the Great Reform Act or British entry into the Great War. But, if you will pardon a certain understatement, I like England. Indeed, like George III, I glory in the name of Briton. And I will say that this country’s immigration policies are insane. There is an arguable benefit from welcoming immigrants who have something to contribute. I agree that a nation is not just a set of propositions that anyone can accept in order to join the nation. But neither is nation purely a matter of blood. There is some overlap between the two that great nations always manage pragmatically. But there is no benefit from importing unlimited numbers of people whose values and dispositions are plainly incompatible with the life of a civilised country. What happened last year in Southport is only one volume in a whole library of effects.

Mr Bickley has asked me to be careful in what I say at this point. But Chinese people openly accept the idea of a racial hierarchy. We believe that Europeans and Orientals are at the top, and each group has its strengths and weaknesses. Europeans have an extraordinary capacity for genius. They gave the world Homer, Aristotle, Mozart, Newton, and Darwin. Because I am studying Greek at A-Level, I will mention the matchless contribution made by just the Greek alphabet. All other peoples have struggled with clumsy syllabaries or with vast numbers of ideographs to express their thoughts. The Greeks, when they took to writing in the eighth century BC, dropped all this, instead developing a few dozen marks, each able to express one sound, their combination able to express an unlimited number of words. It is a step so simple and obvious, only a people of supreme genius could have made it. That step alone summarises the genius of European civilisation.

This being said, if you take a hundred Europeans at random and a hundred Orientals, the latter will have a higher average intelligence. Add to this an unusual capacity for hard work, and you will understand why we often do so well once freed from the customary restraints of Eastern civilisation, and freed from the stupidities of early Communist rule in China. Our different qualities are not in competition, but are complementary. Together, we can make our planet a better place and reach at least the inner planets.

Yet for all their genius, Europeans have come close to ruining themselves with disastrous ideas. Political correctness and critical race theory, and a general shame about the past, are things that no Chinese person can take seriously. These are ideologies obviously manufactured for the purpose of corruption and dissolution. I cannot understand why so many Europeans embrace them as if they were self-evident truths, even when they lead to policies as evil as those that allowed the Rudakubana family into Britain.

Protecting the System

The Southport stabbings and what followed show how Britain’s ruling class places its own survival over the well-being of the nation. The Government and media were not interested in finding the truth or addressing the problems caused by mass immigration. Their goal was to silence dissent and protect their policies from criticism. Britain, a nation capable of producing Shakespeare and Newton, has allowed itself to be led half-way to destruction by ideologies that weaken its society and endanger its future. The Southport stabbings were not an isolated incident; they are a symptom of a much deeper rot.

Note: Image copyright of Merseyside Police: used for “legitimate criticism or review.”