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Monday 9 December 2019

Forked tongue racism




Seemingly endless accusations of antisemitic racism within a Corbyn-led Labour party have become embarrassing because it is so obvious that the accusations are not baseless. In which case what do we say about those who prefer to ignore the whole thing?

The BBC seems comfortable enough with Labour and its leader. It does not seem inclined to no-platform Mr Corbyn and his political colleagues, nor does it point out to viewers that Labour is now a party of the far right. That’s how it goes doesn’t it? Hard-line totalitarian and racist political parties are far right aren’t they?

Progressive celebrities seem to be comfortable enough with Corbyn’s leadership too, so presumably selective tolerance of racism is widespread within the woke celebrity population.

In the forthcoming general election millions of voters will vote for Corbyn so presumably selective tolerance of racism is widespread within the general population too.

Anyone who has ever felt even a slight twinge of unease about the diversity steamroller may well look at all this and think – racism is one more way to close down legitimate debates. Which we knew anyway.

2 comments:

Sam Vega said...

I wonder how the BBC would react if Boris or Farage had similar allegations made against them?

A K Haart said...

Sam - indeed. The BBC would never let it go and would cobble together special programmes to examine every accusation and every nuance.