I'm sorry you've experienced that, and I can only say that it doesn't match up to my own experience moving in lefty circles. But none of that justifies or excuses you minimising the di… (View Post)

I know you were talking about the UK (and the modern day, not the 1960s). My point though is that the reduction of racism against one race does not indicate that racism against another race has reduc… (View Post)

This is completely nonsensical. Look at the US in the early 60s. There was far less discrimination against, e.g., Jews or Italians than there had been in the early 20th century, but that didn't … (View Post)

Dunno. Do we? We shouldn't. I don't. Maybe the left isn't some homogenous, unchanging monolith either. I suspect you're actually thinking of the idpol-obsessed box-tickers who I w… (View Post)

There is no good-faith reading of my comment that would lead you to the conclusion of your last sentence. Which leads me to ask: why are you arguing in bad faith? Are you finding it difficult to argu… (View Post)