They're looking out for their bottom line, and they determined that it'd be better for their brand image to explicitly denounce a facist than remain silent. So it was FREE SPEECH provoked by the ince… (View Post)
Just to be clear, my comment about my own experience isn't to cast any doubt on what you're saying has happened to you, it's to suggest that those people were not representative of the left. (View Post)
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 discrimination ag… (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 mean … (View Post)