Quote Originally Posted by vaterland_miller View Post
The Marxism stuff comes from the Social Science departments of universities - It follows on from the failure of Marxism to be accepted and it includes sociological dogma such as Critical Race Theory. It has found its way into what we call the establishment (all political parties, education, civil service, armed forces, courts, police, NHS, local authorities, commerce etc). An example is the new obsession with what they call "diversity". Douglas Murray explains very well who the Marxist woke mob are in his books e.g. these two:
"The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity"; THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
"The War on the West"

If you want a quick video of Douglas try this (under 10 minutes):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNz2OkeoDA

This is a bit more detail (1hr 10mins):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYaYk09kEDs

If you have a spare 2hrs 38mins you could watch Douglas here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG7I6Bt_NZY



Here is an example of changed law in the UK:
https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/...ality-act-2010

https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-a...ality-act-2010

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics...ow-extend-pub/

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...of-recruitment



Its not a good idea to say anything that could upset one of the "protected groups" - even if it is true. I don't wish to provide any examples.
Thanks for the links. I watched the first one and flicked throgh bits of the second and can see where his views are so often repeated and quoted on the right and the culture warriers. He is eloquent but his arguments are well worn and are just repeating the ongoing resistence lines to human rights progress in much of the west, most of which has been passed by democracies for the service and protection of it's citizens and with their approval as democracies. They have been developed consensually to protect the majority of people who live their, not just the white able comfortable status quo who generally tend to benefit from it.

Therefore, I don't se ethis as being part of a conspiracy of Marxist bodies - just democreatically elected govenrment serving the wishes of its electorate (right and left) as it becomes increasingly non secular and information rich, leading to people being more aware of their rights and politicians using this to further policies that will appeal to these people, and passing such laws through parliament in their service, not against their will.

You're choosing to quote only laws passed since 2010 to try and further your narratice that all was fine in the world with you before then but these goody-goodies have gone and wrecked it. But why not mention the years of previous law changes that preceded these:

1965: Race Relations Act

1965: International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

1966: UK signs up to the European Court of Human Rights

1975: *** Discrimination Act

1976: Race Relations Act

1976: International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)

1979: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

1984: UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

1989: UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

1995: Disability Discrimination Act

1998: Human Rights Act

2006: Universal Periodic Review

2008: UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD)


So instead of seeing advances in people's rights embedded in laws as a recent phenomena foisted on you with an agenda, you can see that the changes you pointed to as being the latest in a long line of progressive developments on people's rights over recent history, all made by democreatically elected governments.

(oh and for what it's worth, Mclean does seem to make things harder for himself but as Kerr says, easy fodder for faux outrage in your right wing propaganda papers)

Sorry Brin, but you surely knew what would happen with your OP?!