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Oct. 18, 2025 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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What Happens When You Apologise to a Leftist

It's rarely advisable. My apology to Jess Phillips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbcZoAABCOA

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We have here a good example of why it is frankly fruitless to apologize to the left.
And I know what you're going to say, but don't worry, we'll get to it at the end of this video.
So Chris Calgi is a chap who works for the Daily Express, a right-wing newspaper in Britain.
And he had posted on Twitter, cannot wait until my taxes no longer fund Zahra Sultana's salary, because, of course, she is an Islamo-leftist who is deeply partisan for her side against the native-majority population and always has and always will be.
And Wasted replies to him saying, cannot wait until my taxes fund deporting Zaras.
And Calgi says, even better.
Now, this was picked up by Zara Sultana, not because she is personally offended by this, but because she realized this would be a political weapon to use against the right.
She could use this to attack right-wingers arguing for deportations and try and make deportations an unpalatable thing to have in British public life.
The thing is, this is a very mainstream position at this point.
She says, a mainstream journalist calling for a British MP to be deported.
Is it because I'm Muslim?
Next time, just say it with your chest.
They'll tell you fascism in this country is a working class phenomenon.
That's a lie.
It's the ruling class and they're sniveling lackeys like Christian here who want us divided.
Don't let them win.
Okay.
So instantly, she makes it political and what they would argue is racial because of the term Muslim being a racialized term in Britain, even though it's not really racial.
But that's beside the point.
What the point is that she sees this as an angle of political attack and is taking it.
And it basically went nowhere.
So she kept ginning this up.
She says, the silence of the Westminster lobbyist, one of their own backs, calls for me, an elected member of parliament, to be deported, is telling.
No condemnation.
Just bootlicking of their proprietors and jostling for Zone 2 dinner party invites.
Our media class is rotten to the core.
Well, I won't argue with that, but yeah, there's many Westminster MPs that I don't think should be in this country.
You're one of them, Zara, by the way.
And I don't think that should be off the table because she does seem to just hate this country.
She considers it to be an evil fascist white supremacist state.
She hates the British people.
She doesn't like us at all.
And everything she does is towards the end of advancing her native ethnic interests against ours.
So yeah, I mean, sorry.
I actually can see why Chris would say, look, I'm not really a fan of that.
But this started getting attention.
Now, despite the fact that Zara Sultana is in a rival political party, the Your Party party, assuming she's still part of that, it's been a bit of a controversy with that.
You have, say, here, Bridget Phillipson, who's the Secretary of State for Education, a Labour MP, part of the Labour government, saying, well, calling for a British Muslim woman to be deported is appalling and unacceptable.
Shame on you, Christian Calgi.
You should apologise now.
This only serves to inflame division and intolerance.
A remarkable statement to be said about Zara Sultana.
One of the most bigoted, divisive and intolerant MPs in the country.
And a person who only has her seat in Parliament due to ethnic loyalty of her constituency for her because of her race and religion.
So remarkable.
Absolutely remarkable.
But Chris said nothing for quite a while, but eventually just posted this today.
I wish to apologise to Zara Sultana MP for my inappropriate response to a message on X.
It was wrong of me to do so, and I am sorry.
Taking a break from X to prioritize my mental health.
Now, of course, you have people on the right who are saying, well, don't apologize.
What's the point of apologizing for this?
And I think that Chris here is apologizing because his boss has told him to apologize.
I think that the whoever the editor of the direct boss at the Daily Express is has said, look, this is just a bit of a storm in a teacup, and it could escalate now that the government is involved.
Who knows how much further this could go?
I mean, it could well be that they report you to the police or something because you know how these things are in this country.
And so apologizing is the safest way to cover your ass.
And so that's what he's done.
Now, one might say, okay, well, he's apologized.
They've got everything they wanted.
Surely they accept the apology.
And of course, they do not accept the apology.
Zara replied with this, inappropriate.
I think the word you're looking for is racist.
Well, I thought you said it was because you were a Muslim.
Wouldn't that be religious intolerance from Chris Calgi?
But again, the term Muslim for them is a race.
If you're going to apologize, don't do it meany mouth.
Go and educate yourself.
Well, there's nothing meany-mouthed about what he said.
It was completely clear, completely straightforward.
And your employer, the Daily Express, could start by actually apologizing and providing you with some anti-racism training.
So the thing to note from this is that, as you can see, no personal offense was actually taken by Zara.
She didn't argue that she was deeply shocked about it.
She argued that this was a political problem.
You're doing this because you are racist to me because I am a Muslim.
And the first thing she does is accuse him of not apologizing for being a racist.
She hasn't taken personal offense and she's not showing any kind of acceptance in any way.
In fact, what she has done here is to go on the attack, which reveals to us that this was merely a political stratagem.
This was a ploy.
This was something that she did because she views it expressly as a way of attacking the concept of deportations in British political life.
Otherwise, she just wouldn't have responded to it.
She probably didn't notice it.
It was probably that someone brought this to her attention and she realized, ah, yes, I can use this as an avenue of political attack.
In sum, this was a nakedly political event for Zara.
And everything she does online is nakedly political.
And so what she advances here are solutions that will solve strategic goals for the left, for the cause of anti-racism.
Imagine getting the Daily Express to do anti-racism training.
Just remarkable.
But it's completely inhuman, completely politicized.
And that's the reason that there's no point apologizing because, of course, it's not like anyone's going to accept it.
This is just some activist, but he says he's sorry he was caught, not that he said it.
Yeah, that's true.
And I imagine Chris still believes that Zara Sultana should be deported.
And yet here we are playing this game, engaging in this fiction.
And you've got to remember, as I pointed out on Twitter, there's just no point apologizing over stuff like this because they despise you for your strength.
And if you show weakness, they'll despise you for that too.
They don't want you existing in their world.
You are a pawn to be taken, a stronghold to be conquered.
You are someone for whom to be rendered powerless.
They do not respect you and your right to exist in their world.
And so apologizing to them is like apologizing to the queen that you've just taken in check in a game of chess.
And you've just taken in a game of chess.
There's no point.
They're not going to forgive you.
They want to just remove the power you have and annex it to themselves.
There's nothing that is going to be gained by that.
And they'll never accept you because you don't agree with them on everything entirely.
Now, there are going to be people saying, hang on second, didn't you apologize to Jess Phillips last year on GB News?
And that is true, I did.
But I actually do think that the situation between Jess Phillips and myself was different.
First things first, I think she was personally offended.
I do think she was genuinely personally offended.
She actually seemed a bit bothered by it.
And her brother actually phoned me up.
I don't know how he got my number, but her brother phoned me up and was outraged in, I think this is like 2017, 2016, 2017, when I said I wasn't going to apologize.
And so I sat on that for the better part of a decade, which is quite remarkable.
And the political environment changed.
And when Jess Phillips managed to scrape by her election in Birmingham Yardley with a great deal of violence coming from the Muslim community, I decided that I thought it was best to actually bury the hatchet in this way.
Jess never responded to this.
I don't know whether she saw it or anything like that.
Feel free to tweet that GB News segment out her.
It's had 100,000 views so far, so that's pretty good.
Because I don't personally hate Jess Phillips.
I politically disagree with her, but I politically disagree with a lot of people.
But I did personally hurt her.
And actually, I don't really enjoy personally hurting people.
At the time, we were a lot more fringe, and I didn't know how to actually get their attention, frankly.
And the situation has changed a lot since 2016.
And that's why I apologized.
And you'll notice that I did it on my terms.
I apologized, and I did it for the reasons I think are the right reasons, not because it was demanded of me.
And I think that that's the only time you should ever apologize for something if you think you did something wrong.
And the coarsening of the political discourse in this country and the rise of political violence against every faction is definitely something I think I would like to be considered to be trying to reduce.
I'm fully committed to the idea of democracy.
I'm fully committed to the idea that everyone in this country should be able to politically organize without fear of their lives.
And I think actually at this point, we are in a position where there are people who are afraid for their lives.
And I think that actually someone like Zara Sultana knows she's putting a target on someone.
I think she knows that her community has a fringe of radicals in it who will take extreme action when they feel that they are morally justified in doing so.
And I think what she's doing here is creating the moral justification for someone to do something crazy.
And I didn't want Jess Phillips thinking that I was doing the same thing because I wasn't.
But it was a different time and we're where we are now.
But anyway, the point of this is just to say if it's a nakedly political attack, which it clearly was, from Zara Sultana, there's no point offering the apology.
But in Chris's case, I think he offered the apology merely to save his skin and satisfy his bosses and make sure that there's no reason that this could go any further, which is fair.
But Zara Sultana did definitely capitalize on this as much as possible, trying to take deportations off of the table.
I don't think we should permit that, because there are many people in this country who should be deported, who shouldn't be here.
And we should be free to express that opinion, because at the end of the day, the question really does boil down to, to whom does this country belong?
And is the answer to that Pakistani Muslim communists?
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