When we called Seumas Milne a blood-drenched Stalinist we were merely observing the formal norms of courteous communication
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When we said that Ken Loach was an evil Jew-hater whose only problem with the Holocaust was that he didn't personally take part, we said so in a measured, polite kind of way
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When we referred to people raising eyebrows at Michael Gove's bookshelf as being one step away from book-burning, this was spoken in the spirit of Socratic dialogue
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When we referred to Jeremy Corbyn as a terrorist-loving degenerate who hates his own country and all the hardworking people in it, this was offered as, perhaps, one would make the opening speech in a college debating society
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When we offered every kind of insult possible to Diane Abbott, treated her at best as if she were a village idiot and rejoiced even at the thought that somebody had bullied her, this was just an elaborate ritual, wreathed in layers of politeness and mutual respect
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When we harrassed the Leader of the Opposition outside his own home, shrieked at him on television and when he was asaulted, treated it as a joke if we could be bothered to mention it at all, this showed our respect for opinions that differ from ours, our commitment to tolerance
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When we published a hit-list of communists during the election campaign, one that we'd dredged up from a far-right organisation, we offered it in the spirit of hospitality, as you might offer a present to a stranger or a newly-met business acquaintance
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They KEEP SAYING F*******
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maybe they mean "courteous" in its original sense of manners befitting a royal court
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Is there a single example of a situation in which Corbyn wasn't polite-to-the-point-of-absurdity?
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