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 …
Yes, I remember only coming across the New Atheists as intellectually lazy people who just wanted to be racist and bomb brown people, never remembered Hitchens being part of the left.
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The media environment has changed as well. A lot of people - whole organisations - have realised there's money to be made by pretending to be on the left and arguing from the right. Industrial scale bad faith.
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I can’t even tell if some of them are still pretending, or consider themselves the “token right winger” in liberal newspapers overrun with them.
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I can just about remember Melanie Phillips writing columns in the 1980s complaining about being excommunicated by the ghastly intolerant left.
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