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Jess Phillips, a top Labour minister, is told that Afghans are 20x more likely to commit sexual offences. She responds with a rambling, evasive rant before landing on: ‘the group more likely to commit offences are men.’

This is the perfect distillation of quasi-religious liberal dogma. These people brand themselves as warriors against sexism and bigotry, but simply refuse to acknowledge concrete instances of either where they clash with their pre-existing belief system. The result is total irrationality: men as a whole are blamed for crimes committed disproportionately by specific groups, while those groups are completely absolved of responsibility.

Fundamentalist Islamic norms, many of them deeply misogynistic, are treated as no worse than liberal secular values. This renders us unable to tackle real problems, women’s safety and societal order are sacrificed at the alter of ideological purity.

People climb the ranks by accusing others of misogyny, while turning a blind eye to actual brutal misogyny when it doesn’t fit the script.

And anyone who points this out is, as ever, labelled as a racist.

Look, obviously not all Afghan men are guilty of this stuff. But neither are all ‘men’. I’d far rather not have to discuss these matters so often but our insane political class certainly won’t if we don’t.

I’ve written numerous essays on this subject. Check out ‘jihadist extremism isn’t a politeness issue’, for instance. It’s on my newsletter page. Hit subscribe to receive the next one.