Not discredited enough unfortunately.
A fascinating analysis of an instance of the new type of character assassination that blew up and ended up discrediting the assassin instead:https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/04/the-scruton-tapes-an-anatomy-of-a-modern-hit-job/ …
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Character assassination is old as human race. It can be done in media or privately using rumours or just stating opinion in position of power/influence.
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That article is pretty weak sauce. It's an attempt at apologising for some pretty nasty bile - "Is ‘invasion’ the most diplomatic word to use about the migrant wave of 2015? Perhaps not..." - using a kind of handwaving that goes down well with Spectator's readership...
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If you think that Hungary suffered from an invasion of Muslim hordes, and think that kind of language is right, and not inflammatory and corrosive to the body politic in a country like UK with a significant Muslim minority, well...
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I think this is a much better analysis of Scruton's arc: https://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2019/04/25/scruton-is-part-of-an-intellectual-culture-giving-respectabi …
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Though the target lost their job and the attacker still has theirs - so the real lesson is that you can get away with this nonsense.
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