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MaryMillingtonsGhost
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Hammer and Pickle
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Re: Douglas Murray
You’ll enjoy Murray’s stuff if you’re looking for confirmation of your far-right conspiracy crank bias. Otherwise, you’ll just see him as turning out badly researched pseudo science and move on with the rest of the normal world.
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Cabbige Savage
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Re: Douglas Murray
Metroplex wrote: ↑20 Sep 2024, 09:56Why? Because the dense ex public schoolboy has a posh voice? If someone from a council estate came out with half the stuff that fascist cսnt has come out with, they'd have been banged up time ago. But no, that little runt gets invited onto cosy chats with the BBC to spread his poison because of his class.
Call him a fascist, and try to take the moral high grown whilst clearly evidencing a massive chip on your shoulder about class, and calling him a 'mincer' because he's gay. Interesting. Pretty sure a lot of actual fascists would be well on board with your attitude about homosexuality.
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Mike Oxsaw
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Re: Douglas Murray
Metroplex wrote: ↑20 Sep 2024, 09:56Why? Because the dense ex public schoolboy has a posh voice? If someone from a council estate came out with half the stuff that fascist cսnt has come out with, they'd have been banged up time ago. But no, that little runt gets invited onto cosy chats with the BBC to spread his poison because of his class.
Have YOU got a "posh voice", Metropox"? Difficult to say from here, so obviously cannot decide whether your view is worthy or not.
Can't claim to have either seen him in any media or read any of his works - but the reactions he generates indicate that he's pricking the consciousnesses of those with deeply held beliefs and tugging at their nice, fluffy comfort blankets.
Try arguing against the points he makes than rather lazily hurling barbed insults at his person - if you've got any actual arguments against those points, that is.
Can't claim to have either seen him in any media or read any of his works - but the reactions he generates indicate that he's pricking the consciousnesses of those with deeply held beliefs and tugging at their nice, fluffy comfort blankets.
Try arguing against the points he makes than rather lazily hurling barbed insults at his person - if you've got any actual arguments against those points, that is.
Re: Douglas Murray
Why? Because the dense ex public schoolboy has a posh voice? If someone from a council estate came out with half the stuff that fascist cսnt has come out with, they'd have been banged up time ago.
Yep. People from council estates get treated differently to posh people speaking out. Two Tier Kier would be proud of this post.
Re: Douglas Murray
Why? Because the dense ex public schoolboy has a posh voice? If someone from a council estate came out with half the stuff that fascist cսnt has come out with, they'd have been banged up time ago. But no, that little runt gets invited onto cosy chats with the BBC to spread his poison because of his class.
Re: Douglas Murray
Posted twice ever, and one of them is this rubbish. Well done. Put this sort of intellect up against Douglas and he wouldn't last five minutes.
Re: Douglas Murray
I read The Strange Death of Europe a few years ago and I don’t have too much disagreement with his thesis, but I think he is preaching to the converted and not really bringing anything new. Perhaps he is articulating something people instinctively feel but are unable to articulate as well as he is able to. There is some value in that.
As a person I find him pompous and haughty. He has affected the airs of a public intellectual and he sneers at his opponents which I don’t think is a good strategy to winning people over to your side. Christopher Hitchens he isn’t. All this is harming his own cause which I am largely, although not entirely, sympathetic to.
In my view there are better people on his side of these arguments who can articulate them with erudition, humour and self deprecation. Ed West being a good example.
As a person I find him pompous and haughty. He has affected the airs of a public intellectual and he sneers at his opponents which I don’t think is a good strategy to winning people over to your side. Christopher Hitchens he isn’t. All this is harming his own cause which I am largely, although not entirely, sympathetic to.
In my view there are better people on his side of these arguments who can articulate them with erudition, humour and self deprecation. Ed West being a good example.
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One Sunny Day
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Re: Douglas Murray
Never heard of him so googled his name. Oh, just another tin foil hat wearing conspiracy loon, grifting a living from selling his crap to the gullible. Best ignored, which shouldn't be too hard.
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only1billybonds
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Agree with all of that Stubbo. The three books you mention are a bigger wake up call to this country than anything any politician has daredcsay. He gets accused of arrogance by some but I only see this side of him when he is debating idiots who know they have been beaten.
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stubbo-admin
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Enjoyed his books most well known books.
- The Madness of Crowds
- The War on the West
- The Strange Death of Europe
All excellent, eye opening tomes that present a side of the argument and perspective rarely given any airtime. Also one of those guys, a bit like Jordan Peterson, that when you hear someone have a debate/argument with him, unless they're VERY certain on their facts and argument they're in a hiding to nothing, and end up just name calling and shouting abuse, resulting in them looking like point-less know-nothings.
Wish the bloke got more airtime, but he's so fat against the prevailing narrative and would be considered a 'far right extremist' these days.
- The Madness of Crowds
- The War on the West
- The Strange Death of Europe
All excellent, eye opening tomes that present a side of the argument and perspective rarely given any airtime. Also one of those guys, a bit like Jordan Peterson, that when you hear someone have a debate/argument with him, unless they're VERY certain on their facts and argument they're in a hiding to nothing, and end up just name calling and shouting abuse, resulting in them looking like point-less know-nothings.
Wish the bloke got more airtime, but he's so fat against the prevailing narrative and would be considered a 'far right extremist' these days.
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