I might take your arguments about what people want a little bit more seriously if you stood for Parliament on a Generation Identity platform and managed to save a single deposit anywhere.
But those things were unthinkable in, say, 1960. My question to you is what changed? I want to know if you believe in some magic “progress”, “zeitgeist” or whatever, or do you acknowledge social change comes through activism, usually driven by small groups initially
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On gay rights, lots of factors pre & post decriminalisation. Cultural activism certainly part of it. I suspect you rather underestimate the importance of personal & family social contact in shifting attitudes and entrenching the shift. Can you reverse that? It seems difficult
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Not trying to reverse it, as I’m sure you know
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I didn't know. Why not? You have to remember like most people, I have heard almost zip about you. Am aware of a bit of pissing around on boats in the Med with pan-European racists & noelw this curious idea that hipster racism is somehow less toxic; not more annoying.
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Apologies, we don’t think it’s an important issue; unlike mass immigration that’s been going on forever!
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You contradict yourself. You were noting the social shift was in the last 3 decades & was "unthinkable" in 1960 a few minutes ago. Its a more recent & more rapid shift than race. Still, good to see the retreat from your group's recent intellectual antecedents
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Who do you think our antecedents are?
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You tell me who your intellectual antecedents are. Your Sunday Times arguments owe much to Powellism; the attempt to scrub up with a new look seems to me reminiscent of Jorg Haider
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As much as I agree with you that GI is a bunch of neo-fascist losers with no balls to stand up to electorial scrutiny I must say that they are very successful in influencing some circles around the
@spectator. Aided by what I can only assume to be Russia & Hungary's@Fideszmpsz
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