Media Guido: In the post-mortems the effect of the platforming of far-left types just because they were extremely active on Twitter on current affairs shows should be reflected on. It normalised people who would in the past have only been only selling Trotskyite papers outside train stations.
So, what's the right balance between encouraging the broadest diversity of opinion and making a star of Ash Sarkar?
I think the BBC should allow the full range of opinion from people committed to democratic politics.
ReplyDeleteTrotskyites are not democrats. They were part of the Bolshevik (later, Communist) section of the Social Democratic Party which rejected democratic norms and embraced violent pustchist revolution. In fact Trotskyites were at the extreme end of Bolshevism.
So, I certainly don't think the BBC should be mainstreaming Trots or others not committed to the democratic process. Ash Sakar has previously told us she is "literally a communist" and seems to come from an extremist brand of politics pursued abroad.
Well put, sir.
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That's a very interesting piece. I associate Sarah Ditum with the TERF Wars - i.e. the militant transgender onslaught against Guardian-style feminists (with her being the Guardian-style feminist on the receiving end of it). It's very interesting that she's now feeling safer writing for the Spectator and Unherd.
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