'Politically correct mob' now look like 'the woke Taliban'

Spiked Online Editor Brendan O’Neill says the fallout from the death of George Floyd has transcended into "a kind of explosion of political correctness" in Britain.

Widespread Black Lives Matter protests have been seen across Britain following the death of unarmed African-American man George Floyd in the United States while in police custody.

"I think a lot of members of the public would be wondering who's actually running this country right now," Mr O'Neill told Sky News host Peta Credlin.

"Is it the government or is it this kind of woke, politically correct mob of people who I think are using the awful killing of George Floyd to express other ideas that don't really have much to do with that".

He said people have been "horrified" by the killing of Mr Floyd, however the protests are "now about something else, this has now become a kind of explosion of political correctness".

"There is a politically correct mob running around the country who are expressing all sorts of dangerous, backward, strange ideas.

He said protesters who are now smashing statues "looked to me like the woke-Taliban".

"This idea that we must cleanse the public sphere of every bad person, every bad idea, every bad way way of thinking".

"I think that's incredibly intolerant, it's not progressive and it certainly has nothing to do with the awful killing of George Floyd".

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