The left don't really get along well with the idea of freedom. They love to deny people the opportunity to express their views.
Why have we accepted as dogma that racists should get no platform to express their views? When was the vote taken? Did you get the memo? Who sent it?
When I was at university in the early eighties I embraced the idea that we should challenge all the dogmas that our lecturers told us we were authorized to question. You could question the church, the monarchy, the democratic state, socialism and capitalism. All these were fair game. But you mustn't question some fundamentals:
1] Britain is and should be a multicultural society and that is A Good Thing
2] Racists are foul and disgusting and wrong and common and working class – but not in a miners and dockers salt of the Earth way.
3] Enoch Powell was a racist and he got what was coming to him.
4] Everybody should be allowed to speak: lesbians, Irish terrorists, communists – everybody. But Daily Mail readers, conservative voters and the like should be mocked and racists should be denied any platform at all. Everywhere.In other words only minorities should be allowed to express their opinions at all, or better yet only people expressing support for oppressed minorities should speak.
Thinking back on it now I get a strong impression that the left actually believed that black people were inferior, as were women, and the talk about equality was really a sort of noblesse oblige thing, or for the religiously crippled leftists it was some sort of Sermon on the Mount thing – the meek shall inherit the Earth. We have to ensure special favourable treatment for blacks and women because they wouldn't be able to manage it without our help. Also there must never be any research into racial differences because obviously they'd find some and that would be embarrassing, wouldn't it?
I also get the impression that for the left it was a simple case of my country wrong or wronger. Any enemy of the British Empire had to be good. The only thing better than an enemy of the British empire was of course an enemy of Britain and America, such people were like gods to them.
The left got up my nose then and they still get up my nose now. I used to go around wearing a badge that said socialism sucks, but just in case people thought I was a one dimensional character I also had other badges, the anti-apartheid logo, maintain in an upright position when full of liquid, I am one of those people your mother warned you about, cannabalize legalists, Sexual deviation is the mainspring of evolution, Born Again Atheist and Wearing Badges is Not Enough.
The best way of pissing off the leftists went a little bit too far, but I can't help feeling a little sympathy for the motivation. Two years before I joined it the Junior Common Room at my halls of residence had sponsored an orphan from Mozambique. The year after there was a swing against the leftists and they decided to pull a really cunning stunt, they sponsored a sergeant in the South African police. I can only suppose that they sent him enough to buy a few beers rather than to buy him a cattle prod or jack boots. Anyway, I'm sure the sponsorship lapsed in my year, and I can't remember ever having to vote on the matter. As I said, I was a badge-wearing supporter of the anti-apartheid cause, and I've still got that badge. It's a pity I've mislaid the others.
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