Julie Bindel is complaining about being no-platformed.
The campus craze of banning outspoken women from university events and debates across the country is such a gift to the misogynistic “men’s rights” movement, that if I were a conspiracy theorist I would be insisting this is a global plot to end women’s liberation.
Lies and smears against radical feminists and allies who name male violence as the key way in which we are oppressed are nothing new. We are labelled prudes and “pearl clutchers”, slurs previously bandied about by men defending their right to rape.
Bindel is part of the misandrist movement to silence those they disagree with. Indeed, Bindel would have all men locked up in concentration camps, so this is the kind of creature we are dealing with – pure, unadulterated evil. If we dare to challenge the extremist, misandrist dogma spouted by this woman and her fellow travellers, we are shouted down and accused of misogyny, of being trolls.
Two things here. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom to be heard and it does not mean anyone, anywhere, is under any obligation to provide a platform.
My sympathy with Bindel is measured in minus figures. She is a part of the extreme leftist movement that thought no-platforming people who disagree with their vile views is a good idea. If she is now reaping the whirlwind, tough shit, frankly. Suck it up.
The whole “Freedom of Speech” thing is, and always was, about *government* interference with speech. This is what these “rights” are all about: reining in governments and making damned sure they fear the people, not vice-versa.
As universities are effectively private research institutions that have a lucrative sideline in teaching foreign students at high prices (and domestic students at usurious fees), “Freedom of Speech” and its friends are utterly irrelevant. There is no such thing as “Freedom to Talk Insulting Bollocks On Someone Else’s Private Property”.
Quite so. However,these people are quick to call for bans on speech they don’t like – hence hate speech laws.
“Suck it up.”
Through a straw. Should be fun to watch…….
This woman is palpably certifiable.
Good, good! More, faster! *orders more popcorn*
When someone is being mugged by reality it’s wrong to gloat.