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How repellent to damn minorities for not having the ‘right’ politics
It’s absurd to accuse people of betraying their ethnicity or sexuality because of their views
The paradox of emancipation for the left is that the more victories it wins the less relevant it becomes.
- Nick Cohen
- The Guardian
In theory, it should bank the victories and move on to the serious business it said it always wanted to concentrate on once it had swept aside irrational prejudices.
In practice, it unwittingly shows that prejudice can flourish as easily on the left as the right.
The presence of so many politicians of south Asian heritage in the front rank of Conservative politics, for instance, is a…