I despise identity politics. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-37129448

"But many on social media said the initially indulgent attitude towards Mr Lochte demonstrated a form of privilege that might not have been extended to female or black Americans."

Here, my national broadcaster (I pay £12 per month to be insulted) has just given credence to the notion that I, a working class white male, am 'privileged' (a totalitarian term used to force your opponent into self-censorship).

Of course, were I to launch into a tirade about Islam being impervious to criticism (a status certainly not enjoyed by 'white men') I would be slated beyond recognition, as yesterday's article in the BBC demonstrated, when it highlighted criticism of Sharia law is 'Islamophobic.' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37109216

Typical progressive divisiveness parading as virtue; typical class warfare mentality masquerading as progress, the mentality that is tearing western civilisation apart by determining that if you're non-white, non-male, non-heterosexual, non-national and non-Christian, then you're a better class of criminal/victim.

Typical stoking of ethnocentrism and tribalism within what they perceive to be the out-group for the purposes of pitting them against what they perceive to be in the in-group, and with no ramifications. Yet white men just sit idly by and...take it.

Of course, they don't stop here. Now it's on to attacking 'bro culture.'

"The term "bro" has "evolved into a shorthand for a specific kind of fratty masculinity", according to US public radio, but also a "generalised expression of fatigue with the wielding of white-male power", according to critic Wesley Morris in the New York Times."

Lovely. No counter-argument, as per always. I presume this would be a good time to raise the topic of Rolling Stone magazine, no? How did that work out in terms of 'white male power'?

I presume this 'white male power' extends to young white men who are at the bottom of the totem pole in terms of poverty?

I hate their language control. What was deemed flagrant racism yesterday is now condoned by my national broadcaster - they refer to it as 'white privilege.'

Then again, according to my national broadcaster mutilators aren't mutilators, they are 'diverse'; child abuse isn't child abuse, it's 'racism' (see Rotherham); free speech isn't free speech, it's 'far-right populism'; censorship isn't censorship, it's 'body shaming'; segregation isn't segregation, it's a safe space; racism isn't racism, it's 'white privilege'; equality isn't equality, it's 'equality for women'; human rights aren't human rights, they are 'minority rights.'

Then again, the National Socialist German Workers Party isn't the National Socialist German Workers Party, it's the 'right-wing Nazi Party.'

See, you aren't racist any more, you are 'privileged' - all of you. Of course, they've just legitimised the very prejudice they oppose (they don't oppose it and they are racists, merely socially acceptable ones) and here I sit, a white male, attacked by my own national broadcaster and who is standing up for me? Where are they?

There isn't anyone. Why? Because unlike every other group in society which needs to identify simultaneously as infantilised/victimised and 'empowered', I can actually take it.

They ask why people vote Trump - THIS IS WHY. This, as it's repeated every second of every day, IS WHY. And when they goad you just enough to send you into a pit of fury at the injustice of it all and to lash back at them, then they can accuse you of the very 'privilege' they wanted to accuse you of at the beginning.

I despise progressives. If you call yourself one then think who you are siding with. It has, at its most visible, become Marxism (in-group vs. out-group) in everything but name.