The problem of politics in a noisy age
We are once again having to readjust to a vast expansion in the amount of conflicting information at our fingertips.
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This isn’t the first time that humans have had to live through an increased amount of ambient noise from one another.
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Stephen Bush
Which is worse? Having someone describe your ethnicity in a way that you dislike, or having someone knock on your door in the dead of night, demand your proof of residence and bundle you into a van? I ask only because apparently the question is rather more difficult than I had thought it was.
There is no question that there are many labels that the well-meaning left seeks to impose on me without my consent. One particular dislike is the people who write to tell me that I should refer to myself as “mixed heritage”, a term that makes me sound like a tomato.
