When Labour officials or member object to legitimate criticism by imputing bad faith to the critic, that's deflection. When they defend themselves against slurs and misrepresentation, that's wholly justifiable.
I agree, although istm some alleged BBC "slurs and misrepresentation" are no such thing.
Do you mean the BBC? Because it's not a poster child for how to eliminate racism is it? ISTM that you of all people ought to be able to acknowledge that eliminating racism from a large organisation is not actually possible, and to pretend that it is hampers efforts to challenge and minimise it, which is necessarily a work in progress.
ime in my department racism, homophobia and to some extent misogyny were not tolerated.
As a staff rep' I was directly involved in a number of cases where employees lost their jobs as a direct result of such ignorance.
Of course Auntie was enormous (still quite big), and isn't perfect.
Indeed I'm waiting for you to ask for more information about this on the 'here is the news' thread.
Your obsessive smearing of a young trans woman illustrates your own point perfectly.
It's hard to assume good faith on your part when your criticisms of Labour seem to be more or less interchangeable - and when your chief bugbear is so ugly.
It's not a smear. Lily Madigan has conducted herself in an aggressively misogynistic manner on numerous occasions.
imo/e there's currently a lot of misogyny in Labour.
istm the same half arsed efforts to facilitate progress that resulted this are also at the root of the anti-Semitism omnishambles.
Trampling marginalised groups in a half arsed attempt to lift a marginalised group isn't liberation. It's more oppression.
This equally applies to amongst others Jews and women.
