Quips Steyn:
This is the aging of the dawn of Aquarius: new blasphemy laws for progressive pieties. In the New Statesman, Sarah Ditum seemed befuddled that the 'No Platform' movement — a vigorous effort to deny public platforms to the British National party and the English Defence League — has mysteriously advanced from silencing 'violent fascists' to silencing all kinds of other people, like a Guardian feminist who ventured some insufficiently affirming observations about trans-women and is now unfit for polite society. But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down? |