Posted on 08/22/2021 6:05:18 AM PDT by RandFan
Daily Mail columnist Peter Hitchens has been slammed for writing an article in which he appears to compare left-wing British people with the actual Taliban. Yes, really.
In his column, he slammed people for caring about Afghan refugees but not “deprived” British “young men” and said that Britain has “our own liberal Taliban”.
He wrote:
“Young men live under our own Taliban, the fierce stone-faced Left-wing doctrinaires who in the past 50 years have created huge zones of misery in what was once a pretty happy society.”
He then appeared to argue that women entering the workplace rather than being wholly responsible for childcare was... bad:
“Our liberal Taliban – who claim so much to worry about the fate of Afghan girls – drove millions of women out of homes where they would happily raise their own children if they could, to drudge all day in call centres and such places for a pittance that pays for the ropey ‘childcare’ they must then use,” he wrote.
“They destroyed lifelong marriage, depriving uncounted British boys of their fathers and dumping multitudes of children in ‘care homes’ whose very names are a mockery.”
Goodness. Hitchens added:
“Our liberal Taliban destroyed rigorous state education, depriving the British working class of skills and of ladders upwards into real careers.
Our liberal Taliban told the British people to be ashamed of their history, their freedom and their religion and gave them nothing to believe in instead.”
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Well? Is he wrong?. Nope.
Damn, he’s hammering the leftists. Use of ropey is entertaining.
When the left demands everyone use the same terminology, be afraid to speak their mind, vote how they’re told, and be shot, jailed or “reprogrammed “ for their beliefs, the comparison is unavoidable and accurate.
Sounds like he was on a roll
WOW!
Oh, he spoke the truth. You can’t do that anymore.
Yes.
Left wing Brits are worse than the Taliban. The only difference is, the extreme left wingers have not been able to seize power yet. If they did, we’d have a Stalinist regime in the UK.
He looks like Christopher Hitchens, but he makes too much sense!
Johnson is bad enough.
They are up to their eyeballs in Muslims over there. I’m surprised they didn’t take this as a glowing compliment.
It’s hard not to admire the Hitchens honesty gene.
I’m glad he did this because I’ve been thinking the same thing.
American Taliban would love to shoot people for not wearing masks as they take down statues and keep kids from going to school. Many parallels.
Doctrinaire tyrants in any nation are the same, regardless of their religion or cult.
Gone are the days of the old Fabian leftists like Attlee and Orwell, who believed in nationalizing everything, but were still committed to individual liberty. The leftist of today wants to seize property AND put your head on a pike.
Indeed and our quota of the is higher than the Brits.
The Left and Taliban are kindred spirits.
-Rule by decree
-Oppose free speech
-Require papers to travel
-Against freedom of movement
-Require face coverings
-Support genital mutilation of children
Chickens**t lefties at DM are not accepting comments on his article. I f*rt in their general direction.
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