In Response to Tony Blair's Comments on Minority Rights and Immigration
Channel: Matt
Date: 2020-04-07

According to multiple sources, former Labour PM Tony Blair said the following on February 20, 2020: "If you go, ‘Transgender rights are our big thing,’ and the right say, ‘Immigration control is our big thing,’ you are going to lose that war, so you are not going to advance any of the things you want to do. "We don’t need to be fighting that culture war. That doesn’t mean you don’t take the right positions on things." 

I discuss why Blair's statement was irresponsible and out of context. In short, minority rights are not to be juxtaposed with other social issues in ways that dissolve the foundation of liberalism/idealism itself. (April 2020) 

Note: I mention a Malaysian city governed by the British. I learned about the "White Rajahs" of Sarawak, specifically the British Brooke family, while visiting Kuching, Malaysia. 

Note: When the economy is doing well, some people are still against immigration but they call it by another name: gentrification. This verbal sleight of hand indicates the real issue is not immigration per se but the belief that one is keeping up with neighbors both national and local--which involves inflation more than immigration.