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 …
Yeah, I was in the exact same position (also a lot of Afghan refugees), but it was so obvious that it was just lazy racism because they knew nothing about Islam and half the time weren’t abusing Muslims, just Asian people. Wild that Melanie Phillips was ever left wing.
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Though I used to work with someone who shared a desk with her decades ago, asked if her right turn was post 9/11, and she said no, she veered right the second she had kids and just continued.
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iirc she started off accusing the left of encouraging poverty by failing to defend family values, citing various sociological studies to demonstrate the importance of fathers in the household etc – there was a whole (largely forgotten) culture war around those issues in the 80s.
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