Arseholes

[brett_dunbar]

There are some people who are fundamentally arseholes, they might shift from one extreme political position to an entirely different extreme political position. An example was Yousef al-Khattab (formerly Joseph Cohen), who appeared on the recent Richard Dawkins TV series The Root of All Evil, he was an American born Jew and had started out as a pro

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[wibbble]

I've argued repeatedly that in terms of the psychology involved there's very little difference between any extremist position. It's the same mindset no matter if they're an extremist Zionist or an extremist Islamist - although both sides would call for your head if you were to point it out to them.

[del_c]

The Hitchens who springs to my mind like a nitro-charged flea when I hear the phrase "people who might shift from one extreme to another, but remain fundamentally arseholes" is his brother Christoper.

[brett_dunbar]

As far as I know Christopher has remained a left wing pillock (not as big a pillock as George Galloway, but then who is), Peter used to be a left wing pillock and is now a right wing pillock, as I was looking for examples of switching, from one extreme to another, Peter seemed to fit the score better