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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Slightly tangential but still relevant was the fact Rod Liddle was a Guardian columnist in this period.
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thing is he was an insufferable prick even when he was nominally on the left
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a lot of it was filtered through free speech arguments – we must be allowed to criticise religion! – it was around this time that you saw liberal-minded secular humanism mutating into and getting eclipsed by New Atheism.
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Oh god yeah, that was something I first noticed in Guardian comments. Non-vegetarians who were *so upset* about poor animals in Halal slaughterhouses, but didn’t have a wordto say about Kosher, while eating meat daily. Sure you’re just an animal rights activist, Jan.
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