If you read through this asking yourself the question "how many of the horrible errors people made over Labour antisemitism are being reproduced in this article?" it's really striking.
https://twitter.com/NewStatesman/status/1331292769579638788
That's not really a knock on Wilby (still less a defence of any of the other figures to have gone "this is all exaggerated and think about the free speech issues"). Just interesting that it's often quite difficult, when you're not on the receiving end, to recognise that ...
... that something is actually bigotry, not just "views you disagree with". To a large extent it depends on leaders in the affected community having someone in the mainstream media who will answer their calls, which is why, I think people are so shocked that ...
...the trans community managed it; it's a little bit of generation shock to realise that there are now lots of media professionals who grew up with trans friends and regard slurs against them as serious offences.
(envoi: in a lot of cases, Wilby is not wholly wrong! The online trans rights community often behaves horribly! Sometimes it massively overstates things and uses words like "harm" extremely irresponsibly! That plus two quid will get you expelled from the PLP.)
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