An excellent J&M this week pointing out the current trend for attempting to seize the moral high ground by "strawmanning" your opponents with labels such as "racist", "Islamophobe" or "sexist" for simply disagreeing with you. This seems to be a tactic much beloved of the left (particularly radical feminists) and also the more radical fringes of LGBT+ interest groups and their representatives. Much has been written and said on this subject recently, I particularly like the work being done by conservatives (with a small "c") such as Douglas Murray in "The Madness of Crowds" and Sam Harris in his videos and podcast, both rational thinkers commenting on a landscape of irrational identity politics.
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