Even more angry with the labour MP who wants the underage girls raped 'to keep their mouths shut for the sake of diversity'

The British public has become so weak that they will put up with anything so long as it doesn't touch them personally. You just wonder how much of this sort of s*** they will endure for a quiet life.

Oh! I see. It's how you interpret it.

So if someone likes a Ku Klux Klan post about repatriating Black people, they might be misinterpreted?

Ha ha.

Exactly. A Twittert***.

Interesting letter in the Spectator this week:
Sir: In your leader ‘America’s identity crisis’ (19 August) you state that ‘When General Lee emerged as a leader of that rebellion [the secession of the Southern states], we said that he had no cause that stood up to scrutiny.’ The irony is that Lee did not disagree with that view. Unlike Jefferson Davis and other Confederate leaders, he was opposed to secession and believed that the Union should be kept intact.

So it is all the sadder, as you argue, that Lee has become politicised and a victim of ‘identity politics’. As ever, you have to ask how much history those on either the right or the left of these arguments actually know.

We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. [Orwell]

Nothing and no one is ever...pardon the pun...black and white. However, the quote cited above goes on to say “a greater evil to the white man than to the black race,” and that the “painful discipline they are undergoing, is necessary for their instruction.” So, in context, Lee's comments show a far different man than the isolated snippet quoted to the Spectator.

Lee was known as a cruel and unforgiving slave owner. Further, during the war he captured freed slaves in the north and sent them to the south; his troops killed black union soldiers who were trying to surrender. He was also a right b****** to his own troops.

As I said, very few people are steadfastly evil or good, but trying to paint Lee as a tortured, progressive soul over slavery is a rewriting of history far greater, and far more dangerous, than moving his statue. He is not a sympathetic or misunderstood figure; he was a skilled general, a cruel man and someone who took up arms against his own countrymen in order to preserve the right to own people.

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.