Errkal wrote:Didn’t read it, didn’t see a link to it. I was making the point that you have taken someone mentioning Momentum and swapping that to mean they were saying Labour which is like equating what the ERG say to be what all conservatives say.
People bitch and spacey all the time about misrepresentation or whatever, so don’t do it too.
The article was a survey about coronavirus, which revealed 20% of English people think it is part of a Jewish and/or Muslim plot to undermine the country.
I think when there's a post about the prevalence of far-right conspiracy theories and someone's instinct is to deflect, that reveals something about what their priorities are. Vermilion saw an article about the prevalence of far-right conspiracies and his priority was to put the attention on the left. "Don't talk about Nazis," the subtext says, "talk about some people I don't like instead".
I know you really hate Momentum, but in the context of this situation you've fallen for the rhetorical trick - you're now talking about being mad at a left group you dislike, rather than at the far-right conspiracy theorists who comprise 1 in 5 of the English population - and you've got to stop that, because letting the Tories get away with that will hurt your "soft-left" movement as much as it hurts other bits of Labour and the left in general.
If you can't move past this then it might start to seem like you care more about ranting about Momentum than you do about actually combatting the Tories (particularly given your bit of Labour is now in charge again).