If you mean that a move towards more tolerance for and of some minorities is solely down to the left, then I'd agree that there has been an increase in its influence in the last fifteen years. I think that's a good thing actually, don't you?
The Daily Mail and other unashamedly right wing sections of the media used to drone on about "political correctness gone mad" thirty and forty years ago as they railed against the EU and all that has happened in the intervening years is that political correctness gone mad has gradually been replaced by "anti woke" which, in some places at least, carries more sinister undertones. However, it is essentially the right whingeing against developments taking place at the time - the difference this time is that whereas political correctness gone mad was a fairly loose and harmless term, anti woke has become more mainstream and generally accepted because of the rightward swing of the pendulum I mentioned in a previous post.
As for your list of examples of the "enormous rise in the left's influence", I've never heard of claims that Maths and the Countryside are racist - are they part of any left wing party's official policy? You mention "articles", are they written by people in a position to affect the policy of Governments or are they just opinion pieces? Outlandish articles on the left and right have been written for decades, if not centuries, but shouldn't be taken for policy.
Your second and third examples are essentially the same thing. I'm not looking to excuse some of the excesses of a proportion of those on the left when it comes to how they view immigration, but I would say that they hear some of the anti minority views of the likes of Orban and Erdogan and want to show their opposition to such opinions. Add in the number of countries where the nationalist right are closer to forming a Government than at any time since the Second World War and the left will want to present another side to the argument against thinking which is diametrically opposed to their own. The fact that these right wing, often far right wing, parties are on the rise is proof of the swing to the populist right which has been going on for at least a decade, but I maintain has its roots in the 2008 financial crisis.
Again, I'm not sure what you mean by your fourth point, but I suspect climate change is involved somewhere in it, so I'll just post this link for someone out of the usual suspects on here to tell us the experts and scientists have got it wrong and they know better
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd7575x8yq5o
We live in a time where the elite which is actually trying to control the American Government for the next four years are deciding that there is no longer any need for fact checking - more evidence of the ever rightward direction of your pendulum.
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
If you mean that a move towards more tolerance for and of some minorities is solely down to the left, then I'd agree that there has been an increase in its influence in the last fifteen years. I think that's a good thing actually, don't you?
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