True.

If Twitter offendotrons manage to get Maybot and Co to sack Sir Roger Scruton from his new job advising Building Better, Building Beautiful on housing policy, you can safely stick a fork in British civil society. It’s done.

Years ago, he argued that ‘"once identified as right-wing you are beyond the pale of argument; your views are irrelevant, your character discredited, your presence in the world a mistake. You are not an opponent to be argued with, but a disease to be shunned." At the time it was hyperbole. Now it seems what Freddie deBoer calls "offence archaeologists," people determined to ‘"sniff out baddies doing bad things" by going through everything a person has ever said or written – are determined to make it true.

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