Europe - migrants - Cologne attacks - The comments section on this Guardian article...

[scarletwoman]

17. I've read through 18 pages of reader comments, so far. It's certainly been fascinating.

This one in particular struck me - a good example of the anger being expressed on page after page:

You {meaning the author of the Guardian piece} "don't want to talk about it"? No, you, and the mind numbingly moronic liberal left commentariat don't want to talk about it.

You've not "talked about it" for years, decades even, certainly since the Rushdie affair. You are prepared to compromise free speech, the satire of religion. You compromise on attacks on Jews and gays. You have thrown away belief in the values of secularism and sexual equality for decades, because you might offend people who chose, that's right, chose to move to Europe from some economically stagnant cesspit of sexism and misogyny (that is why their countries are medieval shitholes - they've subjugated women as second class citizens for 1400 years and have not changed), and who demand, with threats of, and actual, violence, that we tolerate, accept and bow to their cultural norms.

You've defended the burka, you've defended sex segregation, and worse in schools.

You've called anyone who has questioned the mass importation of people from cultures so vastly different from that in Europe racists, and bigots. You sit there, on the sidelines, but with newspaper columns to preach from, wondering why much of the Left in Europe is totally, utterly discredited, when the answer lies in front of you, if only you looked in the mirror.

You compound your multiple crimes against real liberalism with fog:

The New Year’s Eve attacks are shocking at least partly because they’re confusing.

You call the square around the Dom "rough". Have you been there? Its the centre of the fucking city. Open to all.

You can't work out whether it was just mere robberies, or whether the sexual violence was uppermost in the minds of the gangs of young North African and Muslim men who carried them out.

But you're still confused, when you should be appalled. Appalled at the behaviour and attitudes of these sexist, repellent men, at their deeply, repulsively sexist cultural backgrounds.

And you should be deeply ashamed that your arrogance and moral superiority - "We bend over backwards to report it responsibly, to moderate the frothing rage bubbling up below the line" - which is based on nothing but sanctimony, denial and no guts to defend liberal values at all. (my bold)

Anyway, thank you for bringing this article - and especially the comment section - to our attention.