Have spent the weekend in hospital with little else to do than read the internet. This is good because it means I won't die (not today) and bad because it means I have little else to do but read the internet.
So. No platforming Greer, Bindel, Ditum et al.
How much fucking privilege do you have to have to EXPECT to be invited to speak at universities? It's fucking breathtaking how fucking ARROGANT you would have to be to complain that no one wants to listen to you speak in an open letter in the Guardian.
Fucking WAHMBULANCE for people throwing their toys out of the pram because it means that there won't be a free exchange of views.
Fucking newsflash.
I already know what your views are as we have these things called books and the internet. Lots of us have the internet now. Its ever so clever. Can tell us what you have said about your views on sex workers and trans women without us actually having to physically see you.
Free speech doesn't guarantee you a platform. If it did I would be demanding I get to go to Oxford to discuss my views on keeping male Roborowski Hamsters in the same cage.
What? You're not interested? You already read it on the internet? WATCH ME WRITE AN OPEN LETTER TO THE GUARDIAN TO PROTEST THAT YOU HAVE CURTAILED MY FREEDOM OF SPEECH!!!!
You see how silly that sounds?
The reason you are being no platformed is not because what you have to say is so scary, so incisive that we worry you will spark minds to unhitherto thought.
It is because what you have to say is damaging and dangerous and to be honest we have heard it all before.
You are that uncle who doesn't get invited to dinner anymore because he goes on about bloody immigrants every time.
So you are not being invited. It is not your right to be invited. Freedom of speech does not guarantee you a platform.
Nor does it mean I have to listen to your vile, bigoted opinions.
Now off you pop. There's a love.
So. No platforming Greer, Bindel, Ditum et al.
How much fucking privilege do you have to have to EXPECT to be invited to speak at universities? It's fucking breathtaking how fucking ARROGANT you would have to be to complain that no one wants to listen to you speak in an open letter in the Guardian.
Fucking WAHMBULANCE for people throwing their toys out of the pram because it means that there won't be a free exchange of views.
Fucking newsflash.
I already know what your views are as we have these things called books and the internet. Lots of us have the internet now. Its ever so clever. Can tell us what you have said about your views on sex workers and trans women without us actually having to physically see you.
Free speech doesn't guarantee you a platform. If it did I would be demanding I get to go to Oxford to discuss my views on keeping male Roborowski Hamsters in the same cage.
What? You're not interested? You already read it on the internet? WATCH ME WRITE AN OPEN LETTER TO THE GUARDIAN TO PROTEST THAT YOU HAVE CURTAILED MY FREEDOM OF SPEECH!!!!
You see how silly that sounds?
The reason you are being no platformed is not because what you have to say is so scary, so incisive that we worry you will spark minds to unhitherto thought.
It is because what you have to say is damaging and dangerous and to be honest we have heard it all before.
You are that uncle who doesn't get invited to dinner anymore because he goes on about bloody immigrants every time.
So you are not being invited. It is not your right to be invited. Freedom of speech does not guarantee you a platform.
Nor does it mean I have to listen to your vile, bigoted opinions.
Now off you pop. There's a love.
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