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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Replying to @bat020
Was this like a 9/11 thing? I’m not old enough to remember any of these people ever not being racist.
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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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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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