Rod Liddle: What's his problem with Brighton?

[8ace]

Rod Liddle is not right-wing. He's former SWP and he's been a Labour Party member for many years (although he has just been suspended).

For anti-semitism

 

[Brovion]

For anti-semitism

No, more the opposite. It was more for 'Islamaphobia', i.e. for suggesting that that anti-Semitism was a default Muslim position. (That's a rough summary).

 

[JC Footy Genius]

For anti-semitism

He was suspended for claiming anti-Semitism was an “ingrained part” of many Muslims’ “unpleasant ideology".

I think Mehdi Hussain said something similar but because he is a Muslim it's not a problem?

 

[8ace]

No, more the opposite. It was more for 'Islamaphobia', i.e. for suggesting that that anti-Semitism was a default Muslim position. (That's a rough summary).

I stand corrected Brovion. He's actually gone up slightly in my estimation then!

 

[Aveacarlin']

I've never heard of him.

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[Triggaaar]

Columnists are there to provoke. The worst thing a columnist can do is to bore the reader. And they have to be able to string sentences together with a bit of panache so that what they write is at least interesting, and not confusing. So, job done by the boy Liddle. We read to the end, we know what he thinks and it annoyed the heck out of us.

So I don't read it.

Julie Burchill is hugely irritating but she (or whoever ghosts her stuff) can certainly write. When she had a column in the Guardian on Saturdays I made a point of reading her idiotic, half-baked, juvenile, usually ill-informed nonsense before anything else, just to get my blood boiling.

Why do you want your blood to boil? That sounds quite unpleasant.

 

[clapham_gull]

There is more than enough room in this world for people who spout bollocks. I was shocked reading about the NUS "no platform" thing. If you don't like what they say just ban them.

Well, that's an incredibly naive and frightening thing for young people to think unless they can't be bothered to debate.

I was walking past the BBC at the time Nick Griffin was on Question Time, well the demonstrations before. That "performance" caused him untold damage, particularly within his own party. I'm glad that happened rather than his party proclaiming he was banned from the BBC which is what the protesters wanted,

 

[W.C.]

Columnists are there to provoke. The worst thing a columnist can do is to bore the reader. And they have to be able to string sentences together with a bit of panache so that what they write is at least interesting, and not confusing. So, job done by the boy Liddle. We read to the end, we know what he thinks and it annoyed the heck out of us.

Julie Burchill is hugely irritating but she (or whoever ghosts her stuff) can certainly write. When she had a column in the Guardian on Saturdays I made a point of reading her idiotic, half-baked, juvenile, usually ill-informed nonsense before anything else, just to get my blood boiling. It worked a treat.

I used to do that too. No idea why. Worked in a book shop for a while too and read most of her auto-biography too. Lost count of how many times she informed the reader of her working class background.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

There is more than enough room in this world for people who spout bollocks. I was shocked reading about the NUS "no platform" thing. If you don't like what they say just ban them.

Well, that's an incredibly naive and frightening thing for young people to think unless they can't be bothered to debate.

I was walking past the BBC at the time Nick Griffin was on Question Time, well the demonstrations before. That "performance" caused him untold damage, particularly within his own party. I'm glad that happened rather than his party proclaiming he was banned from the BBC which is what the protesters wanted,

Completely agree. It's alarming that universities, which should be hotbeds of debate, can be places where debate is effectively silenced. If your beliefs can't stand up to being challenged then perhaps you need to reconsider them.

Related to this, of course, is the continuing battle in Oxford to have a statue of Cecil Rhodes removed, on the grounds that its presence is a reminder, and perhaps could be seen as a celebration, of his white supremacist views, which led to apartheid. Some might feel like quoting George Santayana at this point: Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. The irony of the protests being started by a South African student who went to Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship has apparently been lost on many.

 

[The Clamp]

From what I've seen of his "work" he doesn't really hold many solid opinions of his own but will have a pop at anybody and every now and then, by accident he can be amusing and at turns vile and ill informed. Journalism of the worst kind.