Sure, but The Daily Hell is British (it's one of the few rags we can't a blame your fellow Aussie, Rupert Murdoch, for), and I didn't specifically refer to you as an American.

You think Netflix documentaries are always objective, fair, and balanced?

I didn't say I thought Knox was guilty (although I was fairly shocked at how desperate the supposedly 'liberal' press were to advocate for two white, privileged, and fairly well-to-do students, as opposed to the two black African men who were also indicted). I simply said I didn't trust her. As someone who, vaguely,…

You appear to have a higher opinion of the British centre-right upper-class establishment than you do for the relatively poor and marginalised, albeit occasionally conservative, parts of British society. But it doesn't surprise me. Hatred for cultural conservatives, even as we continue to worship at the temple of…

You seem to be the line voice of reason here, but what can one expect from a society that has completely given up on social democracy, and the rights of the poor and black/minority ethnic communities, in favour of a neoliberal agenda that panders only to the needs of privileged, white, and exclusively educated…

It's admittedly a sign of cynicism to use such terminology, but unfortunately I've encountered a lot of 'liberal' fakers in my time. I've got all the time in the world for genuine progressives, but as far as I'm concerned hypocrites and fakers are just as bad, if not worse, than openly right-wing types. At least one…

Admittedly, I haven't seen the film, but it just rubs me up the wrong way when I see otherwise liberal posters seemingly mock the blue-collar working-class (I'm not saying you were doing this, but it felt close to it for me).

I have on occasion used them. I recall Chukka Umunna, a UK Labour Party MP and social democrat (although he could actually be one of those fake, Blairite/Clintonite 'libs' I was referring to) and the man who has been tipped to be the 'UK's Obama', using the term 'virtue signalling', disparagingly on a late night…

A few commenters are mocking, albeit mildly, the 'working-class hero' notion in a way that I don't think would be so acceptable if it was applied to another relatively disadvantaged group (and in socioeconomic and cultural terms, the working-class are clearly less advantaged than the upper and middle classes).

Fair enough.

I can totally understand why you don't want to engage with HistoryOfMatt. It's very clear he's coming from a conservative reactionary perspective (and I doubt he'd disagree with that summation), but I am simply suggesting that some progressives, myself included, use those aforementioned terms. You're smart and…

We need to keep, or even start, talking about intersectional feminism. White, and male, and straight privileges exist, but these are not all binary concepts. There are a multitude of privileges, and a true progressive believes in addressing them all (and no, I'm not suggesting that they all have the same degree of…

Not giving my money to Casey Affleck.

Clooney, Messrs Affleck, Damon, Pitt, and Depp, all claim to be liberal progressives…heck, look at the co-presenter of the Best Picture Oscar, Warren Beatty, a Hollywood 'liberal' renowned for his flippant and unchivalrous attitudes towards women (pre-Annette Bening). Forgive me if I take most of this posturing with…

So, none of you would say that Casey Affleck's circle of movie stars, including his brother, Ben, Matt Damon, George Clooney, and so on, ever 'virtue signal'? Because I'd argue that's precisely what it is when people put on a front about caring about women's rights, yet continue to act like misogynist jackasses…

Like you, I care about feminism, but where's your outrage over classicism? A lot of these 'white-collar wishy washy types' were born with silver spoons.

I'm a feminist, anti-racist, and anti-homophobia…but I'm also something which seems to be curiously out-of-fashion amongst supposedly 'progressive' and 'left-wing' people today; I'm also against classicism and social snobbery, and until the DNC gets its head out of its Ivy League ass, and start focusing on its…