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Dear Editor
As we notice in psychotherapy as the hour draws to its close so the patient begins to be serious. As Bob Hinshelwood begins to say goodbye, so we hear something of racism. Of course, if someone wishes to have a confession, I am quite happy to oblige. I am racially prejudiced. But where I differ from the Editor is in being none too ready in being able to see ‘extraordinary tolerance’ in the Middle Ages or, to the point, in being able to see fault in Western Culture. I am sorry but racial prejudice has nothing to do with points of the compass. The qustion I ask is, ‘Does it matter?’ What is our task if it is not to say. ‘Be who you are, speak who you are, irrespective?’ And where done, to assess those who reply with hatred? Of course, it does not mean that I believe in racial prejudice. But, if you wish to have a world without, you will find the inspiration of that is Western.
Barrie Buxton