Welcome to SALEM 2020: The rise of online child racism vigilantes is disturbing, scary and dystopian

Numerous groups are hunting down, humiliating and ruining the lives of pupils who say a ‘wrong’ thing, express support for the police, or simply stay silent. And morally illiterate teachers and schools are encouraging it.

Anonymous Instagram accounts devoted to calling out racist comments made by fellow students have appeared in the US. Within a few hours, one such account launched at San Marcos High School, California, attracted around 900 new followers. The aim of these student groups is not only to punish and humiliate, but also to ruin the future prospects of someone who made a racist comment.

The main outcome of teenage vigilantism is to contribute to the fostering of the disturbing climate of conformism demanded by supporters of BLM. In many schools, the question of support for BLM is not a subject for discussion. I have talked to numerous parents who informed me that their children, some as young as 11 and 12, have been told by their headmaster that “those who think they are colour blind are in fact racists.” One school in North London has informed pupils that “silence is racist” and so they need to voice their support for BLM. One mother told me that, in her daughter’s school, a group of A-level students were instructed to read ‘White Fragility’ and acknowledge their racism.

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