11-04-2019, 01:27 PM
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Roger Scrutton Sacked for Non-PC Comments
The already marginalised intellectual Roger Scrutton caused a "storm" following an interview in the Left-wing rag The New Statesman:https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa...a-remarks.html
11-04-2019, 01:44 PM
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Re: Roger Scrutton Sacked for Non-PC Comments
Originally Posted by Gravitas
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The already marginalised intellectual Roger Scrutton caused a "storm" following an interview in the Left-wing rag The New Statesman:https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa...a-remarks.html
11-04-2019, 11:14 PM
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Re: Roger Scrutton Sacked for Non-PC Comments
Absolutely nothing to do with PC but it never is, is it? Scruton was always characterised as that rarest of beasts - a Conservative intellectual. Clearly his faculties are waning in his old age as what he said was not only beyond the pale but demonstrably untrue.12-04-2019, 06:35 AM
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Re: Roger Scrutton Sacked for Non-PC Comments
Originally Posted by Devo
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Absolutely nothing to do with PC but it never is, is it? Scruton was always characterised as that rarest of beasts - a Conservative intellectual. Clearly his faculties are waning in his old age as what he said was not only beyond the pale but demonstrably untrue.
12-04-2019, 05:34 PM
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Re: Roger Scrutton Sacked for Non-PC Comments
Originally Posted by Devo
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Absolutely nothing to do with PC but it never is, is it? Scruton was always characterised as that rarest of beasts - a Conservative intellectual. Clearly his faculties are waning in his old age as what he said was not only beyond the pale but demonstrably untrue.
12-04-2019, 09:06 PM
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Re: Roger Scrutton Sacked for Non-PC Comments
Originally Posted by Gravitas
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Do elucidate, please.
Sir Roger came under renewed criticism after commenting on the controversy.
The New Statesman America quoted Sir Roger as repeating his claim that Islamophobia was a propaganda word “invented by the Muslim Brotherhood in order to stop discussion of a major issue”.
Sir Roger said it was “nonsense” for critics to accuse Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban of anti-Semitism or Islamophobia.
He said: “The Hungarians were extremely alarmed by the sudden invasion of huge tribes of Muslims from the Middle East.”
Referring to philanthropist George Soros, Sir Roger said: “Anybody who doesn’t think that there’s a Soros empire in Hungary has not observed the facts.”
Remarking on last November’s controversy, Sir Roger said: “It’s upsetting because it’s meant to undermine your authority.
“And authority is the only thing I have, authority that comes from hard work and thinking.
“What surprised me was the kind of people who repeated this. You expect people who spend their lives on Twitter to have this store of malice but when it comes up in Parliament, as it did, I was astonished.”
Labour led calls for him to be sacked, with the shadow wome
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