tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post7432645979544806459..comments2024-03-26T13:27:26.499+00:00Comments on Zelo Street: Toby Young Defends Roger Scruton - BADLYTim Fentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726447899972084146noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-68648595430641514572018-11-11T13:54:55.892+00:002018-11-11T13:54:55.892+00:00On the contrary, listening to Scruton's voice ...On the contrary, listening to Scruton's voice and his right wing propaganda is akin to listening to a fingernail on a blackboard. An appalling fellow.<br /><br />I'm all for keeping him in place. He's a constant reminder of how easily German academia went over to the Nazis and how members of the same area of the British Establishment wanted to compromise with Hitler.<br /><br />Scruton is a disgusting self-pitying individual with disgusting opinions. It's as well to keep him in view to see just how much more morally corrupt this country could become. <br /><br />One look at that embittered face is almost all you need to know about him and his type.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-45644513889748859532018-11-11T12:41:09.650+00:002018-11-11T12:41:09.650+00:00Roger Scruton has replied to criticisms of his app...Roger Scruton has replied to criticisms of his appointment.<br /><br />"If people actually read my comments regarding the interplay between George Soros and Hungary they will realise they are not in any way anti-Semitic, indeed quite the opposite. <br /><br />“Only two years ago I supported George Soros by making representations to Prime Minister Orban’s regime to keep open the Central European University so that intellectual freedom could continue to flourish in Hungary."<br /><br />https://www.roger-scruton.com/articles/20-latest/550-statement-from-professor-sir-roger-scrutonAndy Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05811335442613371357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-27249422028610979552018-11-11T09:21:21.164+00:002018-11-11T09:21:21.164+00:00Personally I’d rather listen to someone like Roger...Personally I’d rather listen to someone like Roger Scruton than anyone on the Labour front bench for example.<br />Or anyone in Parliament even. They’re dull and boring, and he says many interesting things. I still remember a TV programme he did decades ago about fox hunting and the English countryside. It really made me think a bit and look at things from a different angle.<br />He might well be “reactionary” by today’s standards - but so what? Is public life to be purged of all dissenters and eccentrics?<br /><br />As usual “the contrarians” at Spiked magazine had an interesting view on things.<br /><br />Quote from Spiked:<br /><br />“If Twitter offendotrons manage to get Maybot and Co to sack Sir Roger Scruton from his new job advising Building Better, Building Beautiful on housing policy, you can safely stick a fork in British civil society. It’s done.<br /><br />Years ago, he argued that ‘once identified as right-wing you are beyond the pale of argument; your views are irrelevant, your character discredited, your presence in the world a mistake. You are not an opponent to be argued with, but a disease to be shunned.’ At the time it was hyperbole. Now it seems what Freddie deBoer calls ‘offence archaeologists’ – people determined to ‘sniff out baddies doing bad things’ by going through everything a person has ever said or written – are determined to make it true.”damonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-58430784541246690562018-11-10T18:49:54.463+00:002018-11-10T18:49:54.463+00:00Vidal's clashes with Buckley were wonderful, l...Vidal's clashes with Buckley were wonderful, largely because Buckley (a fanatical CIA agent) always came off worse whether face-to-face or in print.<br /><br />Mind you, it wasn't too difficult to needle Buckley. Typically, on one occasion in his ranting righty TV propaganda bullshit <i>Firing Line</i> he even threatened Noam Chomsky(!) with violence.<br /><br />Ranting righties are easy to wind up because they are so pig-headed stupid. Which is why everybody should rip the piss out of them as often as possible.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com