I fear those who dissent

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Peter Hitchens has written an opinion piece in the Mail which discusses the new orthodoxy and its heretics. He talks about those who engage in archaeological digs to unearth some ancient transgression and the zealotry of cancel culture. People might not agree with his take, but it is an interesting read:

^But even to explain how my freedom is limited by the flying of these flags is to risk being sniffed out by zealous heresy detectors, and that is enough.
Already, to my certain knowledge, cold and unsympathetic minds pore over my writings, often going back for decades, trying to find passages that they can claim have offended them. What actually offends them is the discovery that anyone disagrees with them.Individuals like me must therefore be humiliated, silenced and, in the end, destroyed and forgotten.People will travel long distances, and make great efforts, to be offended or insulted in this way. They rifle through ancient archives to uncover remarks made in a less censorious age, so that they can repeat them and demand the punishment of their authors^

www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8112819/PETER-HITCHENS-fear-dissents-PC-visited-Thought-Police.html?ito=native_share_article-masthead

What actually offends them is the discovery that anyone disagrees with them

Spot on, though some of us have been saying this for years.

I also think he’s missed the fact that there is clearly a level of enjoyment in discovering something to be offended by.

YesFamily I agree. I also agree with the French Revolution analogy. The fanatics at the epicenter of this believe in book burning, statue smashing and Year Zero. They are determined to dismantle the relationship between words and external reality. That's why linguistic battles are a recurrent theme.

the claim to have been affronted in some way is now the unanswerable charge, by which people such as me will eventually be thrust out of society into a silenced and despised outer darkness, where we will be heard and seen no more. We will, in my view, be lucky if we do not end up being led away in handcuffs, while former colleagues jeer at our humiliation

But he does not actually name the problem, which is trans-ideology and activism. He speaks of gay culture, and LGBT, without separating the T from the other letters and actually naming the specific problem. In fact, he seems to be saying that gay culture is the problem. I admit, I just skimmed through the rest of the article after reading the beginning, but he never seemed to actually put his finger on the problem: than men cannot become women, and vice versa, but the thought police is forcing that belief on us, forcing us to lie.

Quite.

However in about a month, no one is going to have the time or interest for the professionally offended or the dramas of literacy based 'literal violence'. This highly self indulgent movement is about to be swamped by a heavy dose of real life, and surrounded by people with real problems who won't have the time free to Mummy them.