That’s because it wasn’t there. The point I was making is that the author posits a world in which assertion of misdemeanour becomes defacto proof of guilt. That’s a dangerous direction for a society to head because everyone is convinced that their anger is justified and that they are ‘the good guys’.

Lenin and the Bolsheviks are a good example. They had the very best intentions of improving the life of very poor people, but very quickly overturned the core concepts of a civilised society —primarily the need to have a fair trial. Leninism quickly gave way to Stalinism and the rest, as they say, is history. Everyone should always keep an eye on where their own movement is heading, particularly if it plays to their own confirmation bias. You can find a more complex overview of this in my article here. https://medium.com/lucid-nightmare/nazis-in-our-classes-the-50-year-old-lesson-about-fascism-still-terrifying-us-today-839c3222dc23

So whilst I don’t think for a second that Gillian Sisley is at all homophobic, she’s an excellent writer but I’d encourage her to consider the validity of a world view where righteous anger is allowed to replace due process. She frequently argues for a world where accusation acts as presumption of guilt. That means that if I say she is homophobic, and I am gay, she is homophobic… it also means, if you try and defend her, you are also homophobic. This is where current societal discourse is heading at the extreme ends of the lefty echo chambers.