Goku, on 28 June 2024 - 05:55 AM, said:
You don?t have to be tolerant of intolerance. This isn?t some kind of high level ?gotcha? that you?re employing. Imagine somebody was going up to people and calling Asian people p**is, or black people n***ers. It would be entirely fair to wish for a world where that person would shut up and didn?t exist any more. It would also be entirely fair to express that opinion to them and other people. Yes, you could say that?s intolerant - but so what? Some people do not deserve to be tolerated. You could argue Badenoch is one of those people. She then employs identity politics as part of her response - so it?s fine when she does it, but not when other people do it. She is a wretch.
It's genuinely disturbing to see what used to be the rhetoric of the far right being now normalised.
Tropes once reserved for the NF and BNP parroted by first UKIP, then 'Brexit Party' and now 'Reform' supporters.
The common denominator obvious to all.
Worse still, it's all too often given licence by the Tories and Mail-esque media. Their weaponisation of immigration, asylum and LGBTQ issues. Not just intellectual tyrannosaurs like Anderson and Gullis, but front line politicians such as the Braverman rebuked by a Holocaust survivor for her nineteen thirties style invective.
And, of course, the Badenoch ironically titled 'Minister for Equality'.
Then the evidence of these very pages reveals a full panoply of prejudice being casually excused as "opinions".
Or playground standard attempts to misuse the term 'bigot'.
Well the law of the land states otherwise. It's not freedom of speech or in any way courageous to use racially or sexually disparaging terms - as so often claimed by those bleating 'We're being cancelled' victimhood - it's illegal. The 'P' word. The 'N' word. Equating being gay with sex crimes.
All peddled in public by characters following Farage's latest vanity vehicle.
Who obviously think it's attractive to those prepared to vote that way.
Thankfully feedback suggest Mr 'Eighth Time Lucky' is falling in the polls as a result of his pro Putin comments. We can only hope the moral majority in Clacton tell him to "shut up" and ensure his Parliamentary ambitions "don't exist anymore" on July fourth...