Toby Young is wrong: most people don't think virtue comes from victimhood

Toby Young claims that ‘being LGBT is now the height of respectability, while being a white “cishet” male is morally suspect.’ Toby, you’re wrong: virtue and respectability are not based on labels, and LGBT people have many more battles ahead.

I would like to present Exhibit A: David Attenborough.

Why this venerable presenter, you might ask? Well, Toby seems to think that in many parts of the ‘educated bourgeoisie’, virtue is determined by how many victimhood labels you wear. If we were to accept this as true, then it would indeed follow that the bottom rung of the virtue ladder would be filled with men, condemned to eternal suspicion through their inherent whiteness, maleness, heterosexuality, and so on.

If this were true, so-called elites would, for example, be scathing about a white, cis-gender, heterosexual man who was educated at a grammar school and attended Cambridge University. “How morally suspect”, they would exclaim!