Friday, March 17, 2006
There was some speculation recently that the disappearance of Mark Steyn's stuff from British publication may have had some dhimmitude aspect to it. It may have, in part, but from this interview with Steyn, it sounds more like plain more of a plain old fashioned corporate personality clash.
MS: My relationship with the Telegraph group, which the Spectator also belongs to, deteriorated over the last year, and became adversarial, which I don't think is particularly healthy. And I don't mind...I've been the token conservative on liberal newspapers. I don't mind an adversarial relationship in terms of your position on the Gulf War, or Afghanistan, or the European Union or whatever. I don't mind having differences with editors and so forth on that. But when it gets into, when the whole relationship just becomes generally toxic, then I think it's best to hang out your shingle somewhere else, which I will do in the United Kingdom at some point.
nothing in this description excludes "dhimmitude." when frightened people don't like being put in situations that endanger them, they can become quite nasty. "toxic" is not a bad term for that.