Karl wrote:I find increasingly they're becoming quite effective at pushing this idea of, well -- they recognise that there are a lot of younger left-wing people who are a bit overly moralising and annoying, and they really work that into this kind of 'libcuck' narrative. I think it's appealing to stupid people because they find it funny. Much like Boris Johnson.
It’s partially that, but it’s also this (very American) idea that freedom of speech is threatened. They make it sound so reasonable, why shouldn’t they be able to speak to students and let the students make up their own minds? Why shouldn’t they be able to have a Twitter account and be able to say what they like? Why shouldn’t they be able to hold rallies in public parks where they can wave their flags?
Once they succeed in making people think freedom of speech is threatened, it’s easy then to make their opponents look like the draconian fascists. How often do we see them saying things like “the left are the real intolerant ones!!”? Yeah, it’s the left that is intolerant because they threaten to counter protest your EDL rally…