A glimpse into the topsy-turvy liberal world where “whites-are-always-racist and non-whites-are-never-racist” has been afforded by a protest organised against a south London NHS Trust because it closed down an Asian-only mental health care unit.

The trust has been accused of “institutional racism” by mental health charities Lambeth and Southwark Mind. They say that by taking away the ”culturally specific weekly” meeting for more than 60 south Asian patients,” the South London, Maudsley NHS Trust (SLaM) is not “delivering racial equality.”

Now, imagine if SLaM had ever dared to have a white British “culturally specific” mental health group — we can bet that these same people would have been the first to scream “white racism” and “discrimination.”

So, listen to the logic: If whites dare to have anything which is exclusive, it is ‘racist’, but if non-whites have anything which is exclusive, it is not only ‘not racist’, but in fact it is racist to deny them the right to have racially exclusive organisations!

Truly, Monty Python could not make this stuff up.

SLaM is apparently guilty of “institutional racism” because the “current service does not provide integration as recognised by the Commission for Racial Equality and the users were not consulted about the loss of their service.”

The specialist drop-in service, started in 1989 and run by SLaM’s Amardeep team, enabled users to communicate in their own languages, eat Asian food and celebrate festivals. It was stopped in June 2007 due to lack of funding and SLaM’s policy to integrate its services. Following a campaign by the south Asian users, a member of the Amardeep team was restored to a general weekly drop-in afternoon.

However the users say they are suffering while there are still specific services for women and the African-Caribbean community as well.