Nor is gay marriage the only issue around which strict orthodoxies are calcifying. Climate change, multiculturalism and feminism are all issues on which there is only one correct view. To be sceptical of the impact of climate change, or to challenge the censoriousness of feminism, is to incur the wrath of the right-thinking. Not that critics of the new orthodoxies are challenged on their views. Rather, they are branded – as deniers, as misogynists, indeed, as bigots. By their labels, they shall be known – and shamed.
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Well there is some scope for debate in the Lefty-Lala land which the UK has become. For example, the prospective (if the polls are to be believed) Great Helmsperson of the Labour Party Mr Corbyn is floating the prospect of women-only carriages on trains, to prevent sexual harassment of women travellers. However, he may have appropriated (or ‘brought into common ownership’ as they like to call theft) the idea from a member of the Conservative Party, as the article reminds us.
So for a full 2 years after the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 was passed, the nationalised railways allowed for segregation of passengers by sex.
But what if there were incidents of racial harassment on the trains? (Like some reported cases involving football fans recently) Would that mean segregating passengers in trains on the basis of race? If not, why not? Is this not ‘separate but equal development’? Isn’t there a foreign word for this, something that translates roughly as ‘separateness’? (Nine letters, starts with ‘a’ ends with ‘d’).
Will anyone but us say that it is a matter for the train companies to decide?
Thus are the disenters, the sceptics and the rationalists excluded from political society and as sure as the wheel turns those of the elect who claim moral superiority will be ground underfoot.
They are called revolutions for a reason.
Time Polly and Moonbat enjoyed the feel of hempen rope from the lampposts of Westminster Embankment.
In a way it is progress.
The left used to pretend to be favour of free speech and diversity of opinion.
Now they are open in their evil.
What use are single-sex train carriages (or single-sex anything) in an era when it appears that everyone has the ability to self-determine their sex?
In the leftist police state that is the UK one is simply not aloud to have ‘incorrect’ opinions on issues such as immigration or global warming, which is why those who resist popular consensus, such as Rod Liddle or Melanie Phillips, have to write for a secret network of national newspapers in order to say what you are not allowed to say.
Indeed, Snag. Jeremy Corbyn clearly has not been paying attention.
Remind me again – how old is he?
For so many to freely and openly express their hatred, they must be utterly confident that the State will both support and defend them.
Cue Copybook Headings, Gods of.
Well, well.. Oh fuck. Just that.
“Feminists and gays cause global warming.”
I just need a $20 million grant from the NIH & NOAA coffers of the Obama’s government, and I will get right on it, trying my best to prove the above scientific fact. In the spirit of Hillary Clinton, that is $19 million just for me and the rest for the study that I will conduct somewhere on the island of Kauai.
You guys up for peer reviewing my completed study?
A tw@atter quoted in the Spiked piece:
Children in China lived their parents right up to the day they were convinced to denounce them as capitalist readers with their little red books.
The human capacity for righteousness, tribalism and cruelty is infinite.
JG3,
Death or interment in re-education camps is too good for them.
That was back when they were on the losing side of the argument, politically. They have no intellectual basis for saying “Oh, right, maybe we should stop here. Otherwise we’d be going to far.”
I’m not sure how much longer the correct opinion on climate change can stand up to the tide of reality. It used to be called global warming but that slowed to a halt 19 years ago so it had to be re-branded. Pointing delightedly at every extreme weather event will only fly for so long before people realise that we used to get bad weather long before there was any such thing as climate change. The climate has been warming in fits and starts since the end of the Little Ice Age. The rate of warming hasn’t been changed by the rise in CO2 levels, so if CO2 causes temperature to rise, why doesn’t it?
JG III: Sign me up (assuming that your grant will cover my expenses of joining you on Kauai).