Sorry - got his name wrong. Although you knew who I meant tbf that wasn't deflection.
Criticising the journalist/programme, and especially before prog' aired, continues to be a deflection.
Nor agreeing with biased inaccurate reporting is only deflection if you take a very particular point of view.
Other posters seem to take the view that accepting biased inaccurate reporting is an example of naïveté.
Dammed if you do, damned if you don’t
Gentile Labour supporters/activists/office holders et al are the real victims of Labour's AS problems?
Actually tackling bigotry is far from being as easy.
I agree it isn't easy, but not 'far from'.
That's ime, but my employer's management structure had a clearly signposted and strictly enforced 'no tolerance' policy.
istm re: anti-Semitism this is what's lacking in Labour - hence many years of failure to resolve.
It appears you can't see the wood for the trees. Or the shoals for the lil' fish.
The operative word of course being 'If' Despite all of the noise, I simply refuse to believe that Labour is a fundamentally AS party.
istm a risk/blind spot for us lefty progressive types is believing we, and the orgs we support, couldn't
possibly be prejudiced or bigoted.
This is a bit odd given we are humans and such 'orrid things are part of our nature.
Another example of this is Labour's aggressively misogynistic women's officer.
Trampling over marginalised groups in a half arsed attempt to lift a marginalised group isn't liberation.
It's more oppression.
As has been posted already, it's not that easy to deal with bigotry but now is your chance to explain what you would have Labour do and why it is simple?
As you are are currently a Labour supporter iiuc it's forum etiquette for you to go first.
Happy to reciprocate afterwards, even though I have already posted this info', as imo we should assist the lil' fish most in need of support.
As I said earlier, Corbyn is seen as pro-Palestinian and there are parts of the establishment that want to bring him down for that.
Nothing Labour can do will stop this happening. Nothing at all. No number of exclusions or inquiries will stop this accusation. It has the double whammy of being an easy deflection from Labour’s manifesto and criticism of the Conservatives.
As Jack has pointed out, the more one looks at the Panorama programme and the people involved, the more it smells funny.
All institutions will contain racists. Few are institutionally racist. I can think of one that is though and it is one that the BBC gives an extraordinary amount of airtime to with little criticism.
Stephen
whataboutism akimbo continues