A REFORM MSP has invoked the civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King Jr amid a rant about anti-white “racism”.
Amanda Lindsay, a Reform representative for the Central Scotland and Lothians West region, claimed on Wednesday that Scottish institutions had been “captured” and were pushing “discrimination against white people”.
She was speaking during a debate on a wide-ranging Reform UK motion which covered income tax, low emissions zones, immigration, population, environmental policy, and energy among other issues.
Lindsay said she wanted to speak about gender reform, opening her speech by claiming it was “dividing our society in ways we have not seen for generations”.
The Reform MSP claimed that gender reform was “harming the very children it claims to help”, adding: “Yet this is only part of a much larger problem, the ideology of DEI, diversity, equity and inclusion.”
LibDem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton intervened to ask if Lindsay recognised “that the biggest threat to women and children in our society is not trans people, but is instead predatory men?”
She declined to respond, claiming that the LibDem was “more interested in defending ideology than addressing the real world consequences for our young people”.
Lindsay went on to claim: “Our institutions have been captured. In universities such as Edinburgh and Glasgow, staff are pressured to submit diversity statements and decolonise the curriculum.
“Employees across the Scottish public sector are sent on anti-racism training that promotes discrimination against white people.
“While students are told they suffer from white privilege, dissenters face silencing or cancellation. The result is groupthink, not genuine diversity.
“And nowhere is this more damaging than in its effect on young men, particularly white working-class men. Positive action schemes and diversity targets and public bodies and higher education have in too many cases, tipped into outright discrimination.
“This is not equality. It is racism.
“Martin Luther King dreamed of a society where people would be judged not by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character.
“When did we abandon that principle and decide it was acceptable to discriminate once again?”
The reference to Martin Luther King, the American civil rights activist who was assassinated by a racist convict in 1968, drew jeers from within the Holyrood chamber.
However, Lindsay refused to give way.
Her claims in the chamber reflect claims she made before being elected as an MSP, when she invoked the antisemitic “cultural Marxism” conspiracy theory to allege that Scottish institutions had been secretly taken over.
Lindsay had done so under the false name "Drew Augustine", which she used to hide her identity before becoming an MSP.
