tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post2224164854281175828..comments2024-03-26T13:27:26.499+00:00Comments on Zelo Street: Roger Scruton - Media In DenialTim Fentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726447899972084146noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-77830611223592033382018-11-09T11:28:41.139+00:002018-11-09T11:28:41.139+00:00There is no evidence whatever that Scruton has ren...There is no evidence whatever that Scruton has renounced his reactionary mindset. Quite the opposite.<br /><br />Until then he remains a politically correct member of a far right capitalist state. Naturally the British Establishment is riddled with sour faced Scrutons.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-33457048097203293032018-11-09T08:11:01.535+00:002018-11-09T08:11:01.535+00:00The technique of this attack is exactly the same a...The technique of this attack is exactly the same as that which the MSM and the State of Israel lobby have applied to Jeremy Corbyn. Let's go back and search every appearance and utterance Scruton, or Corbyn, has made that we can lay our hands on, Then select the few we can use to damn him. Oh look, in 2007 Scruton opposed same-sex marriage. Forget that this was a fairly evenly divided debate at that time - even dear Stonewall, remember, opposed it for a while - and recycle the opinion now when it looks extremely reactionary. And then he's attacked the concepts of Islamophobia and homophobia. That can't have any credibility, by definition. So he's utterly wicked and evil and we can and should ignore everything he says. Which is exactly why he criticised the concept of Islamophobia, as "the deliberate silencing of discussion".<br /><br />If you want to legitimise the attacks on Corbyn since 2015, carry on doing the same to Scruton. And then you can ignore his only too justified criticism of the increasingly commercial and big-business oriented modernist leadership of the architectural profession, too. <br /><br /><br />Full disclosure: over forty years ago my supervisor in architectural history at Cambridge, David Watkin, sent me to a young don for a couple of extra supervisions in aesthetics: Roger Scruton. Very sadly I missed David Watkin's funeral in September. Scruton delivered the eulogy. David Watkin was gay. I disagreed with nearly all his politics and revere his memory.Andy Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05811335442613371357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-77141848662393689902018-11-08T18:54:06.490+00:002018-11-08T18:54:06.490+00:00Only the left employing commonsense decency? Littl...Only the left employing commonsense decency? Little decency seen in Tim Fenton's articles, but if it is aimed at the far right that will be okay, just don't pretend you are better behaved because you have the "correct" views.<br /><br />PS: there is no such thing as islamophobia, Scruton is right, a pure invention of the left, who find it the only way to justify supporting an ideology that runs contrary to everything they should believe in.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-38601249983102990922018-11-08T14:49:17.951+00:002018-11-08T14:49:17.951+00:00In wino veritasIn wino veritasEdnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-65317422323449504302018-11-08T12:56:35.007+00:002018-11-08T12:56:35.007+00:00Scruton is indeed an intellectual.
An intellectua...Scruton is indeed an intellectual.<br /><br />An intellectual idiot.<br /><br />Similar to far right Yankified Niall Ferguson.<br /><br />Neither of whom understand the difference between intellect and commonsense decency.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-47725249122849606772018-11-08T12:49:01.719+00:002018-11-08T12:49:01.719+00:00"...aren't fit to tie his boots."
T...<i>"...aren't fit to tie his boots."</i><br /><br />True, Toby. But YOU are.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com