I may still have issues with John Cleese and his positioning as a figurehead for reactionary, anti-woke zealotry, but it appears he can still be spot on.

The problem is, when you point out they’re being stupid, ignorant or arrogant, these days they claim they’re being oppressed and that the ‘liberal elite’ are just trying to silence them. They seem increasingly trying to frame bigotry and intolerance of other people based on their social or ethnic status, as a facet of their own right-wing culture, so preventing them from expressing their prejudices is in itself an act of persecution. This gives rise to quite a galling, insipid paradox.