The Left often accuses the Right of “dividing society,” but that claim does not hold up. Look at the three main ideologies of the Left: Communism, socialism, and critical social justice (often referred to as “progressive” or “woke”). What do they have in common? They are all grievance ideologies. They split society, and often humanity, into perceived oppressor and oppressed groups, by class, economic status, or identity, and then follow the same basic program: Collectivization and the state enforcing equality of outcome to correct disparities and level the playing field, with the goal of achieving total equality. Obviously, communist and often socialist regimes have used brutal, inhumane measures to achieve this, compared with critical social justice, which is primarily done through administrative and increasingly coercive measures such as crackdowns on free speech, DEI mandates, and intersectionality charters with punishment for non-compliance, but the shared method still relies on the same basic mechanism.

The fundamental mistake the uniparty makes is conflating ethnic recognition with ethnonationalism. They are not the same thing. Recognising that a people, e.g., the English, are an ethnic group, with a shared ancestry, language, history, and culture, is a fundamental human right afforded to all ethnic groups. Ethnonationalism is a political claim that the nation and the state should be defined by that ethnicity, and should exist primarily for it. A people’s right to their ethnic identity is not the same as a demand for an ethnostate. Conflating the two treats ordinary recognition of a group as if it were an exclusionary political ideology. Treating every acknowledgment of English ancestry, language, and historical peoplehood as ethnonationalism erases that distinction and applies a standard that is not applied to other group.