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MYTH-BUSTING HOME TRUTHS:
1 NOBODY is "anti-free speech".
Free speech has ALWAYS existed on a continuum.
Challenging the “free speech” of racists, paedophiles, anti-Semites, homophobes, transphobes, Islamophobes & people who glorify terrorism is fine.
1 NOBODY is "anti-free speech".
Free speech has ALWAYS existed on a continuum.
Challenging the “free speech” of racists, paedophiles, anti-Semites, homophobes, transphobes, Islamophobes & people who glorify terrorism is fine.
2 Few people are actually against transgender rights. But like ALL human rights, they are complex & exist IN CONTEXT.
eg it's NOT "bigoted hate-speech" to ask if people with penises should have a legally protected right to work in spaces for females traumatised by male violence.
eg it's NOT "bigoted hate-speech" to ask if people with penises should have a legally protected right to work in spaces for females traumatised by male violence.
3 "No-platforming" CAN BE a legitimate, appropriate & effective tool.
Brave, heroic individuals “no-platformed” Oswald Mosley in the 1930s, the National Front in the 1970s, the BNP in the 1980s & 1990s & Islamic extremists in the noughties.
Brave, heroic individuals “no-platformed” Oswald Mosley in the 1930s, the National Front in the 1970s, the BNP in the 1980s & 1990s & Islamic extremists in the noughties.
4 "Cancel Culture" is not new.
Boycotts & call-outs leading to job losses have forced positive social change across the world. Think of the anti-apartheid movement & South Africa, & few would think that Britain First being subject to “cancel culture” has been bad for Britain.
Boycotts & call-outs leading to job losses have forced positive social change across the world. Think of the anti-apartheid movement & South Africa, & few would think that Britain First being subject to “cancel culture” has been bad for Britain.
5 The suffragette, civil & gay rights movements were ALL “identity politics”.
I’m against bigotry & negative stereotyping.
But I’m especially against the tyranny of absolutism & ill-informed, absurdly reductionist arguments.
Life is messy & complex. Let’s ALL try to be civil
I’m against bigotry & negative stereotyping.
But I’m especially against the tyranny of absolutism & ill-informed, absurdly reductionist arguments.
Life is messy & complex. Let’s ALL try to be civil
