The West’s war on ‘whiteness’, with Marie Kawthar Daouda

The Brendan O'Neill Show

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News, Society & Culture, Government, Politics

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🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Marie Kawthar Daouda – author and lecturer at Oriel College, Oxford – joins Brendan O’Neill on The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss decolonisation, white guilt and the destruction of Western heritage. Sign up today for your £1-a-month trial with Shopify and start selling today: shopify.co.uk/brendan Get a discounted copy of Not Your Victim using the promo code MDV26 here: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=not-your-victim-how-our-obsession-with-race-entraps-and-divides-us--9781509571697 Become a spiked supporter to access all of spiked’s exclusive content, and get unlimited, ad-free reading and other perks: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Order Brendan O’Neill’s After the Pogrom now from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters:https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:28.3	If you ask any individual, do you feel personally responsible for savory?
0:33.7	No one would say in all intellectual honesty, yes, I do.
0:38.3	It's about performing the breaking of the link between who we are now and who our ancestors used to be before.
0:46.3	Actually, I'm not offended by these statues as a person of an ethnic minority.
0:51.3	So how do I explain, how would I convey that what is out of Western heritage,
0:57.0	Western architecture, Western art, Western history is not something that could be deemed offensive
1:04.0	to other people just because they happen to have a different skin color. You cannot go on telling people
1:10.0	you're white, therefore you're evil,
1:12.1	without expecting that at some point,
1:14.4	there will be a reaction.
1:23.7	Hello, welcome back to the Brendan O'Neill show with me, Brendan O'Neill,
1:27.4	and my special guest this week, Marie Kauta Doda.
1:30.0	Marie, welcome to the show.
1:31.4	Hello, Brendan.
1:32.0	Thank you for having me.
1:33.2	It's so good to have you on, back on again, to talk about all the issues that you've been thinking about and writing on for some time now, as reflected in your excellent new book, not your victim, how our obsession with race
1:45.9	and traps and divides us.
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