What are you babbling on about? I've replied to, what, three of your comments, allon a pretty specific point. That's not exactly John Hinckley Jr, is it?

I'm responding specifically to your "Islam isn't a race" chestnut, not trying to rebutt everything you've written. I don't even know what the "original statement" I'm supposed to be twisting was.

It's not idiotic to call out racist motivations. You can cock-off about Islam not being a race all you want. You're transparently denying that the bigots at hand aren't attacking "Islam" the abstract concept, they're attacking people on a criteria that aligns perfectly with what we'd otherwise call racism. Saying we…

But isn't the point here that there isn't a consensus, either in sociology or biology, on what is "the right way" to use the term race? The studies geneticists have conductes on Ashkenazi Jews alone (an ethno-religious group, as it happens) are basically one big back-and-forth of genome proponents vs socionome…

People think they're awfully clever when they do this "but muslims aren't a race" thing. Two points: 1) the definition of race is fluid enough to include ethno-religious groups, which a given population of muslims at a given time and place almost certainly are.
2) As Maryland's post above illustrates, the issues of…

You didn't miss a spacebar, you added one in, dummy.

In what is the single most reasonable thing you will read from Morgan on Twitter, he has variously pointed out he wasn't involved with the newspaper that did that.

The pathetic effort to surveil Hislop came afterwards. Hislop talks about it whilst appearing on Room 101 during Paul Merton's tenure (I think it was his second appearance on the show, as it happens).

"He's always been a spineless starfucker with no greater aspirations than access and self-importance"

You need to recalibrate your social media celebrity irritant meter if you prioritise annoying Rowling over Morgan

Trump in particular will be disappointed by this, har-de-har

You must realise how wrong you are? Everyone fucking hates him and always has

He did an interview with The Guardian where he said he loved being the "pantomime villain" of television personalities. DONT FLATTER YOURSELF, ASSHOLE. Pantomime villains add fun and colour to the proceedings, he's more like a pantomime audience member who showed up with his dickhead pals, got drunk after two pints of…

True enough, I agree that it's a wonky sentence. I just thought it was only fair to point out that the American habit of calling posh English accents "British" is one they've picked up from their resident academics rather than ignorance of who does what in the where across the pond.

What I mean is this: Terms like "snowflake" and "outrage culture" are predominantly used to disparage a class of people seen as at best overreacting to minor slights and faux pas and at worse disengenuously seizing the chance to appear morally superior. But it's pretty easy to flip that dynamic and say that that class…

"Bingo. I don't think people realize that outrage culture genuinely bewilders and unnerves a lot of bystanders" - statements like this bolster my belief that absolutely no-one is entitled to use the "snowflake" sneer that's all the rage right now.

I don't think you need to sympathise with the religious sensitivities of anyone who was first-hand pissed off about the incident to feel that Lawrence was being facetious here. The rocks were a point of interest because of their place in the local culture and warranted a bit of delicacy for that reason alone.

It's perfectly possible to be considerate of other people's religious sensitivities when it doesn't inconvenience you. Christopher Hitchens made a point of (for instance) observing common practice when visiting mosques, even if he was going to denounce Islaam as the poxiest of religious poxes the moment he stepped out…

Yeah, imagine not erecting barriers and big "do not touch" signs around every natural landmark deemed culturally significant! Imagine taking politeness from other people for granted! Bunch of goofballs

Personally I think reckless ignorance is as bad as intentionally offending someone. Just apologise with no reservations.