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Originally Posted by Pierre
No. The recent report on racism was a perfect example of the right (Incumbent Government) commissioning an independent report, a report that negates many of the assertions the left puts forward in the “culture wars”.
The left therefore reject the report and brand it racist.
So who on that evidence is “stirring” up the culture wars?
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The Government set the agenda by commissioning and leaking sections of the report, knowing they would be focused on and would get a reaction. If you failed to see the media management taking place then perhaps the government spin doctors have done their jobs particularly well.
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One source we spoke to praised the handling of the report "from a comms perspective".
He said No 10 knew that a row was going to be inevitable so by briefing key elements of a contentious report in advance, it had allowed that row to take place on the government's terms.
"The government knows how uncomfortable it is for Labour to have those debates," said the source. "Some people feel their history and culture is being trashed by the Left."
But the initial communications strategy had not focused so much on what needed to change, rather on posing the question - is Britain a racist country?
There were many non-contentious recommendations in the report, and a lot of nuance, he added.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56578839