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Oh dear! David says ‘… I have said you are a bigot and you are promoting bigotry. I don’t withdraw that because it is very clearly established’ (in his mind, anyway).

I suppose I should feel a bit indignant about this, but actually I’m glad he said it since it exemplifies a recurring move used in the era of identity politics to close down debate on contentious topics.

If you dare to raise certain issues you’re a racist, bigot, a bad person, and as with the old aboriginal practise of ‘pointing the bone’, you are expected to shrivel up and die.

So I stand condemned by David. Bigot!

David, on the other hand, is a good person. He cares, and cares deeply, about oppressed and disadvantaged people, especially ‘people of colour’.

But does he, really?

What did I do to prompt David to make this condemnation? I described (in a comment above) the systemic failure of the state and legal systems in Britain to address patterns of severe criminality involving tens of thousands of victims because of concerns about ‘cultural sensitivity’ and a terror of being accused of racism?

So we just pretend it isn’t happening, as all the protective services in the UK did over a period of decades? Turn a blind eye because it involves some unpleasant realities? And we definitely must not suggest this paralysis might have something to do with the identity politics mentality that puts superficial virtue above victim safety?

What about the victims, David, the girls of colour suffering mutilation that causes lifelong physical and psychological problems? Or the thousands of white girls from dysfunctional families subjected to effective sexual enslavement, targeted on the basis of ethnicity (along with Sikhs)? Should they be sacrificed on the alter of diversity?

There are no doubt some difficult dilemmas here, and we should always stress that it is a small minority of the relevant communities that do these things, but what is the alternative? Indeed, some Muslims have played a key role in bringing perpetrators to justice.

I notice you never even attempt to address these difficulties, preferring to shout ‘racist’ and ‘bigot’. That is exactly the mentality that allowed these phenomena to become entrenched, and over time to undermine the legal system and societal norms.