Tory MP hounded off campus for describing women as adult human females.

[jon1959]

If I have read this correctly, and please correct me if I am wrong, but if a family member or close friend decided to hold a different viewpoint than your own, you would be upset?

This is different from what you said earlier. You said, quite clearly, that if anyone voted Tory or UKIP or BNP you'd be upset. There are a myriad of reasons why people vote for The Tories or UKIP (not the BNP of course), and many of those reasons don't fall into the narrative you have provided above. We can all agree that any form of bigotry is wrong, and that includes prejudging a persons entire character based on a party that they support at an election (unless it is the BNP or Social Workers Party or other equally dangerous fringe lunatics).

You also start a post with "you are wrong". That's rarely the mark of an open and tolerant mind.

Let me put it to you another way, what would it take to convince you that someone who votes Tory (or previously UKIP) isn't a racist?

I was answering your previous opening line where you said ‘I may be wrong….’

I admit to being intolerant of some political views. Proudly intolerant. I do not ever want to be tolerant of reactionary opinion, and especially not the policies and actions that come from that.

I have never said that all Tory or UKIP voters are racist. Some aren’t.

And just to ensure you are fully triggered, I have no problem at all with the SWP. Fine upstanding people even if they are hopelessly wrong about ‘state capitalism’ in the former degenerated and deformed workers states.

Now I’m off to the Tesco clothing thread where the real political debate is raging!