Quote Originally Posted by ragingpup View Post
I would if they lacked credibility or came from a place of hostility as opposed to trying to understand or help resolve a situation. I don't personally see any hostility in saying that a section of society are more likely than others to be the ones who are anxious and agitated by something. And it certainly is trying to understand the situation. Feel free to disagree, but much evidence is on this board

You may wish for a world where skin colour is insignificant. It is to you. You have achieved that. You never had the problem of not having that as a problem in your life. But it isn't to people who have demonstrably less favourable prospects in their education and careers compared to white people. And you won't achieve your nirvana until that balance is reached I'm afraid.

I tend to agree on the statues/historical figures comment but refer you back to my point that such actions and arguments for all but the more obvious targets are very, very minority extremists or owners/councils that are responsible for statues that have a perfect right to review with their communities whether such figures are still relevant to the lives of the people within those communities.
So sweeping generalisations are ok provided the person making them believes them? Or does the principle only apply if it is a person from the left who is making them?

As sweeping generalisations appear to be in vogue, I will join in. I think there is plenty of evidence on this site and across the media in general that people of the left have a misplaced belief in their own moral superiority and an obsession with identity politics and a victim culture. And of course, it is the left who decides who is worthy of victim status, which is one of the reasons why Labour has got itself so tied in knots about anti-Semitism.

It’s not a good look to anyone outside the left bubble.

I appreciate that you will dismiss my observations. And then you will find some excuses (that horrid MSM no doubt) for why Labour can't win elections, ignoring the reality that it might just be that the electorate finds the sanctimonious and hypocritical attitudes of some of it's activists unpalatable.

Just saying.