“Obviously some form of reparations should happen.” Not obvious to me.

I would call it an unbeatable trump card personally. Most people don’t care to be punished (fined) for a crime they haven’t committed. In the vast majority of cases, their ancestors had no part in the crime either. I think that is called common justice in most places.

Reparations make no sense for a number of reasons.

I have a strong suspicion that overall white protestants will be more accepting of homosexuality than black Protestants. Black churches, in general, are not especially gay-friendly in the US. White British Anglicans are far more tolerant than African Anglicans in general and it is debatable how long before a schism…

It is worth remembering that William Wilberforce was an Evangelical Christian and that Evangelicals and Quakers had top billing in the fight against slavery in Britain, its subsequent ban and the enforcement of the ban on slave trading and slavery itself worldwide. Wilberforce was also keen on animal rights. He did…

Does that include mild mannered Anglicans and Quakers?

This is an exercise in delusion and selective, narrow focus. Muslim Americans are small in number, overwhelmed in numbers by other groups and are often better educated and more middle class than European Muslims. Many British Muslims, the ones of an older generation are more tolerant and integrated into British…

And globally Islam is a huge percentage of the world’s population. Evangelical Christians are more of a threat in Africa than they are in the US. Worldwide it would be hard to pretend that Islam is anything other than very bad for homosexuals.

Are you pretending Islam is not a threat to gay people, just because there are other threats out there?

Any blanket assumptions are annoying, whether it is about black people or white. However, it isn’t hard to find widespread homophobia among black communities, particularly of the Umar Johnson ‘pan-Africanist’ school of thought, which has idiots like Neely Fuller and Cress Welsing among their number. Fortunately, Welsin…

The Muslim immigrants who came to the UK in the 50s, 60s and 70s were more liberal and accepting of Western values than their children and grandchildren. Things have got much worse in the UK. Muslims have integrated less well than other immigrant groups, particularly other people from the Indian sub-continent like…

Muslims in the UK are in the main illiberal and intolerant when it comes to issues like homosexuality.

Have those ‘atheistic assholes’ ever said anything homophobic?

That would depend very much on where you are.

I applaud your wife’s actions, but I think you’re possibly over optimistic about her effect on Muslims worldwide. Liberal values and Islam are often complete strangers. The figures quoted here differ widely from those in the UK for acceptance of homosexuality and the situation is worse in many Muslim majority…

Very little of the pay gap will be due to negotiated salaries. In the vast majority of jobs that isn’t even an option. Good luck trying to negotiate a larger salary stacking shelves at a supermarket, fitting tyres or cleaning offices.

A gap exists but it doesn’t mean that women are being paid less than men.

A gap exists certainly and is based on gender. But that doesn’t tell us much about why it occurs. Has a respected institution like the FT decided to go rogue and break the law? Have they decided to deliberately pay women less? Have the somehow done it by accident? Or is something else going on?

No, it’s a crazed mob with pitchforks doing it. What a consolation it must have been for the murdered people at Charlie Hebdo and their relations that it wasn’t government action which killed them and tried to intimidate them into silence.

It’s the SJWs who are giving them a boost by ludicrous crap like this. The greatest danger posed to any political movement is its own supporters who do the enemy’s job for them.