tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post7594745367685803276..comments2024-03-26T13:27:26.499+00:00Comments on Zelo Street: Brendan O’Neill Backs Misogynist TosserTim Fentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726447899972084146noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-13852192516888368132014-11-22T15:05:35.490+00:002014-11-22T15:05:35.490+00:00He wrote the other day about how he and Telegraph ...He wrote the other day about how he and Telegraph blogger Tim Stanley were prevented from having a debate at Oxford University by what he calls ''Stepford students''.<br /><br />I have to say, I agree with him.<br />http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9376232/free-speech-is-so-last-century-todays-students-want-the-right-to-be-comfortable/<br /><br />We are obviously in a really bad place now as far as free speech, or even just disagreeing with the bandwagon twitter campaigns that come to life so quickly.<br /><br />A couple of weeks ago it was Judy Finnigan on the Sheffield United footballer, and today it's the controversy around Wigan football club with their manager and chairman.<br />On the news last night they showed a reporter turning up at a Wigan Chinese restaurant to ask the staff whether they felt insulted by the words that the football chairman had used. Pathetic.damonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-11312759418941862682014-11-14T14:58:12.861+00:002014-11-14T14:58:12.861+00:00Abi Wilikinson is being intoleratant by calling he...Abi Wilikinson is being intoleratant by calling her website UsVsTh3m. I'm not one of anybody and that's what these people really cant cope with. Kern got his complaint on Chortle almost as soon as the first episode went out and the campaign to bring down DL clearly originates from when he was online. The feminist lobby has been looking for a comedian to "take down" for quite some time. DL was just made to measure for the part blundering through taboo issues like an elephant through a moral minefield. His show would probably have died quietly anyway but thanks to Kern and Wilikinson now no one knows why it was taken off air. You cant incite a petition of 66,000 and say that you didn't mean it and it means nothing. If you think censorship is the wrong way to deal with the issue then they should have said openly and clearly that they condemned the petition. This is the grey area of No Platform policies and for all O'Neill's hard left ranting he is right - it is a form of censorship. It's just soft censorship not hard censorship. Censorship isn't black and white it's 50 shades of grey. Steven Green didn't stop people going to see Stewart Lee's Opera but he picketed it to the point it became financially impossible to operate. The Barbican didn't drop Exhibit B because of a petition but becaue they feared getting the poo kicked out of them. <br /><br />And winding a fool like O'Reilly up till he desends into rage or talks about rape on stage because he's been accused of promoting rape and then makes a pig's ear of it due to a bit of heckling may fool the ladies of Newsnight but it doesn't fool me. The aim of the campaign from the start was to take him down. It did. But the questions it raises which really are what is it and isn't it right to censor, when and how ... aren't going away.<br /><br />And there is nothing particularly left wing about the double edged sword of censorship as you will discover.George Gissinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00041813657862750364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-76753295236374875222014-11-12T00:56:41.527+00:002014-11-12T00:56:41.527+00:00I remember when Brendan O'Neill was saying tha...I remember when Brendan O'Neill was saying that the EDL were just good honest salt-of-the-earth working class boys, and anyone who thought they looked like Nazis was clearly a member of "the chattering classes" (he does like that term, he uses it at least once a column) with a hatred for poor and honest folk. It was one of his Telegraph blogs, I think. It might even still be there, but I'm not rooting through crap to look for crap.Celianoreply@blogger.com