Doug later claimed that “Eastern Europe does not have a problem with Islamic terrorism because it does not have much Islam”. Maybe he missed Bosnia, Kosovo and Albania. He has excused his bigotry by asserting that “Islamophobia is a 'crock' and a 'nonsense term’”. But he’s also said “where a mosque has become a centre of hate it should be closed and pulled down”.
Yes, a little bigotry and collective punishment is fine by Doug. Which brings us to his defence of another less than totally tolerant human being, Laurence Fox, for which he has been given a platform by the increasingly desperate and downmarket Telegraph. “Truth and justice die when your career can be destroyed by a claim you can’t disprove” is the headline. Do go on.
“What are the most damaging claims you can make about someone in our society? The ones that would truly damage - if not ruin - the reputation of anyone they were levelled against. There is ‘murderer’, I suppose. ‘Paedophile’, definitely. And then there is ‘racist’. All are highly reputationally destructive, especially if asserted repeatedly”. Yes? Yes yes? Yes yes yes?
“But notice that there is a difference between these charges. The first two can be fought in a court and can be easily disproved if they are wrong … But ‘racist’? How do you prove that you are not racist? Especially if you live in a society in which people go around daily insisting that our whole society is racist, that it is based on racism, ‘systemically racist’ and so on. The answer, for some years, has been that you cannot. ‘Racism’ is a charge that you may be able to prove, but it is not a charge that it is always possible to disprove”.
Doug dislikes it so much that he concludes “This is law as made by the inhabitants of Wonderland”. Only then does he get on to Dear Dear Larry and the latter having had one count of his calling someone a Paedophile categorised as Not Really Calling That Person A Paedophile.
But this was an isolated interlude before he was off and running once more. “The courts initially seemed to concede that the accusation of ‘racism’ is everywhere and always a matter of ‘opinion’ - a decision which was disastrous. Do the courts not think that the allegation of ‘racism’ is damaging?” Damaging to whom, O Great Dougster? Yourself, maybe?
There is what looks for all the world like a very obvious subtext here, that more or less shows Murray to be more than slightly irritated that he keeps getting called a racist when he doesn’t think he is. Maybe it’s something to do with his promotion of batshit and indeed racist conspiracy theories such as Eurabia, The Great Replacement, and Cultural Marxism.
The last of which recycles Nazi-era anti-Semitic propaganda. He’s a racist bigot, and his Tel article isn’t really about Dear Dear Larry, but Himself. All those Rotten Lefties™ calling him a racist on the basis of, er, his dabbling in racist conspiracy theories and he can’t sue their arses off for it. I mean, what’s the world coming to? Commission from the Tel? That’ll do nicely.
Don’t want to be called a racist? Then stop doing racism. End of story.
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That idiot would do the world a favour if he and his type would fuck off. Then get up in the morning and fuck off again, ad fucking infinitum.
ReplyDeleteI'd use less disgusting language but I fear the far right racist twerp wouldn't understand.
"he keeps getting called a racist when he doesn’t think he is." Rather a lot of them don't, simply because they don't believe what they do is racist
ReplyDelete“where a mosque has become a centre of hate it should be closed and pulled down”.
ReplyDeleteKristalnacht was "a centre of hate" too, and it pulled down synagogues. Fortunately it also failed. At the cost of near-ruination of Europe. It has taken the world over three quarters of a century to almost recover. Then along come evil creatures like Murray to try to repeat the homicidal malevolence.
He's a tiny symptom of history repeating itself. Only this time there is no prospect of recovering from an irradiated mushroom cloud growing out of a 50 megaton airburst.
I can't believe this guy was once hailed as some Great Intellect, when he doesn't even understand burden of proof. Accusations of murder, child abuse or any other offence must be proven in court; innocence is assumed.
ReplyDeleteRacism on the other hand is not a criminal offence. It carries with it no threat of imprisonment or fine, merely social opprobrium from those who hold no truck with sentiments along the lines of "Nationalism is good really, it's just that Germany mucked up twice in the last century" (the less said about the historical illiteracy in that statement the better). Given that Murray is still lucratively employed and being granted speaking engagements at events frequented by prominent members of His Majesty's government I would gamble that he rather enjoys the "damage" to his reputation.