Radio Host Suspended for Denying He Had ‘White Privilege’ Reinstated
An Isle of Man radio host suspended for denying he had “white privilege” had been reinstated after the
Free Speech Union went to bat for him.
Man, which is technically neither part of the United Kingdom nor a British Overseas Territory like the Falkland Islands but a semi-independent
Crown Dependency tied to the British government through its historic relationship with the British Crown, was home to
fewer than 200 people who identified as Black/Black British when its 2011 census was taken, along with 1,624 people who identified as Asian/Asian British, 354 people who identified as Other, and 748 people who identified as Mixed — less than 3.5 per cent of the population, all told.
This has not stopped it from being dragged into the contentious Black Lives Matter debate which has spread across the West since the death of George Floyd in the United States, however, with popular Manx Radio host Stu Peters finding himself
“cancelled” after denying he had “white privilege” during a conversation with a caller.
The dial-in to the talk radio show had called Peters to confront him over an online post he had written suggesting that “an Isle of Man protest about police brutality in America makes no sense except as a virtue-signalling snowstorm”, claiming that “in 2018 the U.S. had around 50,000 white on black violent crimes compared with 400,000 black on black and around 550,000 black on white violent crimes” and signing off “ALL LIVES MATTER”.
The call included the following exchange, for which Peters was
suspended and the matter referred to the Communications Commission to determine “whether or not any Broadcasting Codes were violated”: