Andrew Bolt drew attention to an article by Keith Windschuttle that discussed the views of the historian Stuart Macintyre. In his article, Windschuttle wrote:

Macintyre also harbours a deep distaste for this country’s British heritage. In the concluding chapter of A Concise History of Australia (1999), he is comforted by the prediction that, just as the Romans were displaced in Britain, Aborigines and Asians will eventually supplant the colonisers of British descent in Australia. Just as the only remnant of the Roman empire in Britain is ‘a thin slice of the island’s multi-layered past’, so too will the British colonisation be overlaid by the culture and practices of other peoples.

The belief that Western culture, our heritage, is the great scourge of the earth, and that the planet would be a better place if we were more or less displaced by others, is a persistent meme on the left. I have heard this sentiment in various forms from a number of my leftist associates. How to deal with it, defeat it, roll it back, is the great question for which I have no answer. I fear that for all our technical sophistication, a great dark age may be coming. We have opened our borders and elect our enemies to positions of high authority. The commanding heights of elite positions in our academic, media and political worlds are filled with many who hate the West but love its benefits which they hope to continue to receive no matter what goes on below. Their aim is to remain amongst those elites even as the rest of society sinks into an abyss for which they will take no responsibility but nevertheless hope to escape the consequences which will be dire for anyone who finds they are part of the dependent classes.