Sikhs Before and After Nowak
While technically a religious group, Sikhs are in reality - or rather, in human perceptual reality - an ethnic group. Yes, there are converts to the religion from other races, but they don’t matter. In the same way that the White Muslim convert is just a figure of fun, a sort of valueless unit, in human affairs the White Sikh is just an anomaly, a production error. So, when we talk of “Sikhs”, we are talking of an ethnic group. Just like Islam, Sikhism isn’t a race, but might as well be. (And it just so happens that it is the same race as Pakistani Muslims, but we will get to that.)
Constituting 0.9% (535,517) of the British population, Sikhs are perhaps the minority we hear least about. Blacks and Muslims (especially Pakistanis) are for obvious reasons often in the news. Chinese run restaurants. Hindus do well in business and own lots of property. Japanese crop up in academia and tech. Sikhs just seem to keep to themselves.
Their reputation is difficult to pin down but they are certainly seen as more masculine than Hindus, who are generally seen as quite feminine and passive (and at worst, sneaky and treacherous). By contrast Sikhs are seen as the guys who are direct with you, old-fashioned, traditional and formidable coming from a martial creed, but also honourable, law-abiding and peaceful.
More recently, there is the archetype of “the cool Sikh”. Almost never encountered in real life, the cool Sikh is lively, confident, a bit quirky, warm-hearted, and of course completely at one with the hyper-modernity of today’s diverse, pro-LGBT Britain. And he knows some kick-ass recipes.
Among some people-of-flat-design there might be one with a turban, and that’s him. There he is, smiling along with the others, happy in our glorious new world in which difference is not a cause for concern, but a cause for delight, and yet at the same time completely inconsequential because (lest we forget!) we all bleed red and are exactly the same. He is the modern, westernised Sikh, who (we tell ourselves) is typical of his kind.
In fact the opposite trend is occurring. The more multi-racial Britain becomes, the less Sikhs see any reason or need to integrate. Like Pakistani Muslims, where they integrate it is in the sense of taking part in the degeneracy that the modern West makes possible - the drugs, the alcohol, the casual sex.
Moreover, there is increasing resentment among them towards Britain for, in the past and even now, supposedly oppressing their ancestral culture. Professor Gurnam Singh was quoted in the Digwa trial:
Over the last 30 years, there has been a trend towards younger people wearing a kirpan with pride, in a desire to express their cultural identity. They see it as an act of resistance to being denied the ability otherwise to display their identity.
I don’t believe they have ever been denied this ability, except perhaps, in the days before PC and inclusivity, in select environments such as offices and building sites, all of which will have long changed their ways and would today be terrified of imposing such restrictions on the young Sikhs who, nevertheless, are convinced of oppression.
This is simply entitlement, emerging as a direct result of the British state placating them and tiptoeing around their sensitivities. With some peoples, the more you accommodate them, the more they despise you and convince themselves you despise them.
This growing sense of entitlement also explains why Sikhs are, like all minority groups today, convinced that hate speech against them is rising. Sikhs were complaining about this even before the Digwa trial, as well as complaining that special provisions for Muslims will impact them. Diversity doesn’t seem to be their strength.
While leftists are happy with any and all minorities being in the country and replacing us, conservatives always have to rationalise their support for what is, after all, an existential threat to everything they hold dear. They tend to use the same rationale for every single minority group: “X-group are natural conservatives!” With Sikhs, the evidence available for this delusion is their traditional garb, religious piety, masculine presence, and apparent law-abiding nature. For civic nationalists obsessed with counter-jihad, Sikhs win additional points simply because they are NOT MUSLIMS. For all of these reasons, the centre-right will declare:
