Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
I can imagine John Major starting this process off behind the scenes, yes.
OK, John Major, who in no way represents the "hard right" of the Tory party or any party.
I can imagine John Major starting this process off behind the scenes, yes.
OK, John Major, who in no way represents the "hard right" of the Tory party or any party.
And Teresa May thinks the EU is ace, so what's your point?
this is all totally irrelevant
You're all over the place, what point are you trying to make?
why are you engaging with a policeman whos only intention is to derail, frustrate and obfuscate?
Well this just demonstrates the total inadequacy of a single axis for categorising political parties, doesn't it? I agree Labour under Blair and Brown was neoliberal but we're talking about a social issue here, so it makes more sense to concentrate on the social rather than economic axis. And on that front, in terms that are directly relevant to a discussion of culture, religion, race and racism, Labour is not and has never been "hard right".
No-one has ever said that criticising anti-Semitism from within Labour makes anyone a Blairite...
Neoliberalism isn't "racist", the whole point is that it treats everyone the same. That may in practice exacerbate existing inequality but it didn't create that inequality in the first place.
Horseshit. This is absolutely the standard response. If you like I could make a collection of FB/Twitter screencaps showing exactly this.
And you're *still* concentrating on the "But the Tories.../But the media..." angle when I'm specifically talking about criticism from *within* Labour and wider left, I see.
Neoliberalism isn't "racist", the whole point is that it treats everyone the same.
This was what you said: 'I'll accept that I'm wrong if someone can come up with a good argument why anyone criticising anti-Semitism from within Labour (so don't waste your time replying about Tory hypocrites) must necessarily be a "Blairite" or "right-wing", let alone "hard right". ' and I replied that no-one here is making that argument, because they aren't.
neoliberalism is woke plutocracy
Did everyone miss the bit where I said it can exacerbate existing inequalities? Including, obviously, racial ones, given the big correlations between race, wealth/class, education and opportunity? 'Treating everyone the same' is obviously not going to lead to everyone being the same, and is likely to make inequality worse in fact, when there is so much inequality to start with. I still think it's a stretch to say this is racist, as such. The racial inequalities were there already, hundreds of years ago.
Not quite sure what all this has to do with labour + antisemitism.