Now this ones worth really going into because Roger “Trump is clearly unfit to be president” Scruton has published for @NewStatesman before, and has not only been “careful” never to appear prejudiced he has in fact on any controversial issue directly opposed it...
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Here is his NS piece attacking the concept of anti-species prejudice being equivalent to human prejudicehttps://www.newstatesman.com/node/152758#amp
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Scruton against classism: “there is such a thing as the bourgeoisie and you are it, these well-fed, pampered middle-class students whose one concern was to throw stones at working-class people who happened to be in a policeman’s uniform.’”
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Scruton on Islam: “To show real respect for our Muslim citizens is to hold them to the same standard as we hold ourselves”
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I’d also add Scruton’s principled defence of Taqiyya as a “beautiful concept” when it is often deliberately misinterpreted as an Islamophobic trope by the populist righthttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_9DuNlJpWxg …
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On edgy politics: “Parties, in my view, are like people: they must conform to the categorical imperative. They must not practise or justify murder, and must not incite hatred towards any minority or towards any recognizable sub-community within the state.“
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There are dozens more examples. The whole Scruton remark by
@sarahmanavis is clearly just a sad attempt to boost engagement by making an indefensible claim against a (conveniently off twitter) public figureShow this thread
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