like a lot of middle class liberal commentators she took a sharp Islamophobic turn in 2001; the hard right racism she expresses today is a logical outgrowth of that initial shift.https://twitter.com/Dorianlynskey/status/1275775050008887302 …
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yeah. an awful lot of nice people started expressing some distinctly not-nice opinions about Muslims around then. some pulled back once it became clear where this was going (eg Toynbee), others doubled down.
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Willing to bet it jumped from “just asking questions!” to being flat out racist. Remember a lot of my school friends getting abuse/attacked then, and people arguing it wasn’t racist, it was “scepticism about Islam.” Then why have you beaten up a Hindu then. Because you’re racist.
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This is what is so shocking for us old farts who fought the NF back in the day. What Farage & UKIP did during the referendum and since is bring back and mainstream stuff we had defeated. The last Tory election campaign was the most racist since the sixties.
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