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I didn't read it as patronising - I'm just direct (Scottish father & Australian birth will do that) and also coming out of a very different political tradition from most of my interlocutors (Australia is an unusually governed polity; while he was FM, Alex Salmond seemed to be trying to take Scotland down a similar path, something I admired at the time).

Among other things, I reject (along the lines of the comments in the last paragraph of your first comment) anti-racism initiatives. Separately, I also think that people are within their rights to dislike and disassociate (privately) from members of minorities they find annoying (based on stereotype accuracy or even no reason at all). I think a great many of our modern problems are borne of the attempt to "force people to be friends".

One final point: "Is there an example of pogroms or genocide that hasn't been preceded by 'antilocution', though?" asks people to prove a negative. It's like the CRT heuristic put about by the likes of Ibram Kendi. The question for him isn't "was there racism in that situation?" but "how did racism manifest itself?"

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