Perceptive from Suzanne Moore in the Guardian re the Fox outburst:
"What people are saying when they say racism doesn’t exist is that it doesn’t exist for them. Their own identities are weirdly defined by a form of victimhood they profess to hate. So envious are they of oppressed people that they try to claim that they are too, in the name of free speech.
There is now a backlash against women, against gay people, against black people, against the tiniest bit more diversity – and it is a concerted effort. Steve Bannon knows it, and the men who now run Breitbart know it. It moves in high places. We have government by Old Etonians and yet there remains a confusion about who runs the country, who is in the cultural establishment and who counts as a liberal.
These people are the establishment. White privilege and casual sexism is the sea they tend to swim in. Attention-seeking haters such as Katie Hopkins and strangely bitter successes such as Piers Morgan help spawn these posh understudies.
Their side has won, so why are they such losers? Why are their egos so fragile? And why are they so easily rattled if they are only saying what ordinary people think, as they like to suggest?
For that is the shtick, when really what they are doing is insidious. They exist to make those in power appear reasonable as they tear up the social contact.
Fox is but a desperate fool who doesn’t even see his part in the bigger game he plays. Let us not speak of him again. He is not worth even the notoriety."