ght hardest for their own free-speech rights.
The Polari Prize is small potatoes in the grand scheme of things, of course. No doubt, many people reading this had never even heard of it before the controversy surrounding John Boyne. Nevertheless, the mob-like behaviour that the anti-Boyne faction has put on display supplies proof, for those looking for it, that the social-justice left really hasn’t learned anything from the last decade (including Donald Trump’s re-election, which many political analysts believe was won in significant part because of voter backlash on the transgender file).
The greatest threat to civil liberties in many parts of the world is now the populist right. But it’s harder to marshal resistance against illiberal conservatives when illiberal progressives keep showing the world why they alienated mainstream society so thoroughly in the first place. If your brand of politics is so extreme and uncompromising that even a celebrated gay author such as John Boyne is on your enemies list, who, pray tell, are you hoping to enlist as an ally?
They've won so many battles, these ideological progressives, that they seem to think they're untouchable. And indeed this forced adherence to the "correct" ideology – see also the National Library of Scotland – still works. But the the backlash is building…
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