[SCOT goes POP!] What Mhairi Black's departure from the SNP reveals about the "broad church" paradox

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What Mhairi Black's departure from the SNP reveals about the "broad church" paradox

A few people have been asking me for my thoughts on Mhairi Black's decision to leave the SNP, so that's the subject of today's YouTube commentary.  You can listen via the embedded player below, or via the direct YouTube link, or on Soundcloud, or on Spotify.

If you have a few seconds after listening, I'd be grateful if you'd subscribe to my YouTube channel, because I'm trying to build it up.

 
 

After I recorded the above, I spotted a monumentally stupid reader's letter in the Scotsman, accusing Mhairi Black of "inconsistency" because of her stance on Palestine and in favour of LGBTQ rights.  The guy then proceeded to basically do the whole "but what if you were gay in Gaza?" meme, although he presumably was blissfully unaware that he was doing a meme, and also blissfully unaware of what memes are.  The answer, of course, to the question "but what if you were gay in Gaza?" is "you would be murdered by Israel, just like heterosexual people in Gaza".  That's actually a form of equality, I suppose.  

Mhairi Black should know, the Scotsman reader prattled further, that Hamas opposes decriminalisation of homosexual acts.  OK, and?  Mhairi Black has never, to the best of my knowledge, expressed any support for Hamas, so where's the inconsistency?  Do you mean that she has to drop her opposition to genocide in order to look sufficiently condemnatory of anti-gay laws that by all accounts are rarely enforced anyway?  

Nothing ever changes.  The Scotsman readers' page remains whacko central.

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