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THE LAST DITCH

There are two ways of looking at this

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Cowardly Bullying on the Web – Yasmin Alibhai-Brown – Dale & Co.

Am I alone in believing that, such are the appallingly illiberal beliefs (in the classical, correct sense of the word 'liberal') of Ms Alibhai-Brown, she would be subjected to far greater abuse on the internet were she not of the fairer sex and did she not so relentlessly play the race card? 

This notion is perfectly testable. All she needs to do is set up a blog under a false and less protected identity so that she can experience the full richness of anglo-saxon invective. How far we have come since George Eliot adopted a male identity to help her writings be taken seriously. How far, in so many ways, in the wrong direction.

We men and women of conscience thought, in the third quarter of the last century, that we were campaigning for all humans to be judged by the content of their characters, not the colour of their skins (or the nature of their genitalia). Who knew it would actually lead to such wimpish bleating for special protection from the people supposed to be liberated? Woman up, Yasmin. And do try to keep up with the news. This story was msm'ed and blogged to death ages ago.

3 responses to “There are two ways of looking at this”

  1. Elizabeth Avatar
    Elizabeth

    I’ve just read her post, it never ceases to amaze me the distances people will go to in order to be offended. At one time one would have to physically get to parade, march, play or whatever one didn’t like just to rant against it. Now, one can just do it all from an armchair.
    Free speech means just that. It does not mean something which fits in with one’s own world view or, idea of polite speech. Problem is someone like Alibi-brown carries enormous influence with the chattering middle classes, those who believe freedom means being coerced into being just like them.With the growing assault on the internet we should be watching very carefully

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  2. Moggsy Avatar
    Moggsy

    “hesitating to make their little voices heard in the blogosphere because the big bad men are being beastly to them. Misogynism is the battle cry.”
    Puh-leease. Can’t take the heat? well stay out of that kitchen.
    Yes sure there are some bitter and misogynistic men who will try to cut a person down using sex specific put downs and attacks, and some will attack if you press their button by a comment they don’t agree with.
    But honestly? There are some men hating females out there who are as bad the other way.
    I figure for most of both the guys and the girls who make such a thing over the other sex have probably been hurt, even badly, by a member of the opposite sex. Maybe a person should not take what they say so much to heart and maybe there thinking on why they are how they are we can feel a bit sorry for them, tho it does not excuse them.
    But the truth is Blogging and commenting… it can be a bit like swimming with piranhas, a drop of blood and.. you get the picture?
    It is mostly not based on your sex or color, or anything but that you say something someone disagrees with, maybe violently and it is often anonymous and not face to face so the social rules we live by to keep civilised don’t seem to be in force so much.
    If I have the right to speak my piece I need to allow that others do also. I need to expect that some misguided person of any sex, creed, or race might disagree with my obvious good sense ^^.
    I also need to hope that I am smart enough and know enough about a subject that I can ‘win my point. Because it is no use being right on the blogsphere if you can’t fight your corner, except maybe historically..
    when some super intelligent decedents in the future recognise just how right and forward thinking I truly was ^    ^

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    Henry Crun

    That word “bullying” is becoming somewhat overused. The reason Yasmin Alibaba-Brown receives so much abuse, is because of the drivel she writes and she doesn’t like to be called out on it.

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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.

Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.

He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that

“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”

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