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The Zone

Constance Marten, Mark Gordon and Marginophilia

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Ben Sixsmith
Sep 22, 2025
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A modish term that often annoys me is “marginalised”. “Marginalised” people, in the left-wing lexicon, are the excluded and disprivileged. Such people exist, of course, and their exclusion can indeed be unjust. But it often appears that for left-wing commentators, someone being on the margins of society is itself proof of their unjust treatment.

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