Toby Young is a c0nt

[wemakeyousoundb]

Yeah, but that's cos he's a massive c0nt!

1000+ x this

 

[Badgers]

 

[steveo87]

Shared more for Secret Tory's OUTSTANDING pun.

 

[stavros]

 

[agricola]

 

[Sue]

Is he still running (or whatever) that free school?

 

[Orang Utan]

Well he does emit a lot of hot air

 

[equationgirl]

Is he still running (or whatever) that free school?

Stepped down as director in 2018.

 

[stavros]

Is he still running (or whatever) that free school?

If he is let's hope he stays away from maths, and particularly the concept of percentages.

 

[nino_savatte]

I wondered when we'd see a response to the riots from Toby Daniel Moorsom Young and, typically, his article, titled 'Free speech stops riots', swings between victimhood and paranoid fantasising.

With depressing predictability, the riots have led to calls for more censorship. Historically, it was the authoritarian right who blamed outbreaks of civil disorder on too much free speech, but this knee-jerk, illiberal reaction is now more likely to be found on the left. I’m not just thinking of Paul Mason, who called for Ofcom to revoke GB News’s broadcast licence, or even Carole Cadwalladr, who tweeted: ‘This should be our Dunblane moment. Only with social media not guns.’ I’m thinking of statements by the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary.

So far, so batshit.

Of course, this is all about the fictitious "two-tier policing" and, predictably, Tobes shoehorns in his loathing of BLM and people of colour generally.

For all the talk of ‘whipping up violence’, this sounds like a case of blaming the messenger in much the same way that ‘pirate radio’ was fingered for the riots in Birmingham in 2005, and BlackBerry for the unrest in 2011. The authorities have already started arresting right-wing social-media users for stirring up racial hatred, which looks like another example of ‘two-tier policing’. After all, no such arrests were made in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests, even though hundreds of thousands of social-media users in the UK ‘whipped up’ violence against the police by accusing them of racism. During one demonstration, which the BBC described as ‘largely peaceful’, 27 officers were injured. Social media companies were also culpable – more so than now – because they promoted pro-BLM posts and, in some cases, included a BLM logo on their platforms. But Sir Keir didn’t demand they should feel ‘the full force of the law’. On the contrary, he took the knee.

Free speech stops riots

With depressing predictability, the riots have led to calls for more censorship. Historically, it was the authoritarian right who blamed outbreaks of civil disorder on too much free speech, but this knee-jerk, illiberal reaction is now more likely to be found on the left. I’m not just thinking...

www.spectator.co.uk

 

[Pickman's model]

I wondered when we'd see a response to the riots from Toby Daniel Moorsom Young and, typically, his article, titled 'Free speech stops riots', swings between victimhood and paranoid fantasising.


So far, so batshit.

Of course, this is all about the fictitious "two-tier policing" and, predictably, Tobes shoehorns in his loathing of BLM and people of colour generally.

Free speech stops riots

With depressing predictability, the riots have led to calls for more censorship. Historically, it was the authoritarian right who blamed outbreaks of civil disorder on too much free speech, but this knee-jerk, illiberal reaction is now more likely to be found on the left. I’m not just thinking...

www.spectator.co.uk

Pls don't link to fr websites

 

[nino_savatte]

Meanwhile, over at Spiked, LM's answer to The Leader (the Hulk's main adversary) interviews Tobes about free speech on campus after the Nu Nu Labour government signalled its intention to repeal the divisive University Freedom of Speech Act.

Brendan O’Neill: Is the left still in denial about the crisis of free speech on campus?

Toby Young: When campus activists say that inviting Nigel Farage to speak will traumatise the children of immigrants, I don’t think that they’re consciously deploying a rhetorical argument in order to shut down someone they disagree with. Instead, it seems to me that they have persuaded themselves that they are actually protecting vulnerable students. Of course, they don’t like to think of themselves as censors, nor do they see their behaviour as censorship. Most even still claim to believe in freedom of speech.

Activists are able to reconcile this attitude with their indifference to the impact of pro-Palestine protests on Jewish students because of cognitive dissonance. That is, they are not conscious of being hypocritical. They seem to believe that they’re acting consistently. One reason why they are able to maintain this dissonance is because there is so little challenge and debate. There are so few people on campus saying: ‘Hang on a minute, aren’t you being a bit hypocritical? Isn’t there a double standard here?’ Almost no one says that to these activists.

‘The culture war on university campuses ends here.’ So said Labour education secretary Bridget Phillipson last month. Just days later, she announced the scrapping of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act, which is designed to uphold free expression on campus. This was a clear statement of intent – an opening salvo in a war on free speech. How can a minister and a party who claim to be defusing the culture war engage so readily in such a brazen act of culture-warring? How much worse could things get under Labour?







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Toby Young – general secretary of the Free Speech Union – returned to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss the state of free speech in the UK and why a woke, technocratic party like Labour poses such a serious threat to our liberties. What follows is an edited extract from the conversation. You can listen to the full thing here.
Brendan O’Neill: Is the left still in denial about the crisis of free speech on campus?
Toby Young: When campus activists say that inviting Nigel Farage to speak will traumatise the children of immigrants, I don’t think that they’re consciously deploying a rhetorical argument in order to shut down someone they disagree with. Instead, it seems to me that they have persuaded themselves that they are actually protecting vulnerable students. Of course, they don’t like to think of themselves as censors, nor do they see their behaviour as censorship. Most even still claim to believe in freedom of speech.

Activists are able to reconcile this attitude with their indifference to the impact of pro-Palestine protests on Jewish students because of cognitive dissonance. That is, they are not conscious of being hypocritical. They seem to believe that they’re acting consistently. One reason why they are able to maintain this dissonance is because there is so little challenge and debate. There are so few people on campus saying: ‘Hang on a minute, aren’t you being a bit hypocritical? Isn’t there a double standard here?’ Almost no one says that to these activists.

A good parallel of this would be what happened during the Paris Olympics opening ceremony last month. Speaking about the controversial pastiche of the Last Supper, the ceremony’s artistic director claimed that he was creating a ceremony in which everyone felt ‘included’. But his decision to ridicule the world’s largest religion actually made Christians feel excluded. Was all the talk about representation and tolerance just a smokescreen for shoving a rather narrow ideology down the throats of viewers? No, it probably wasn’t. He probably thought he was being inclusive, and that he just accidentally overlooked Christianity. The very same cognitive dissonance is at work here.

https://www.spiked-online. xx com/2024/08/07/labours-invisible-culture-war/

Once again, this amounts to "free speech for me, but not for thee".

Link broken.

 

[nino_savatte]

Pls don't link to fr websites

It's The Spectator.

 

[Rob Ray]

That would be the BLM protest where *14 * arrests were made (27 was the overall total at the time of the article he's thinking about), which the Met, government and press all went heavy on and which were, factually, mostly non violent.

George Floyd: London anti-racism protests leave 27 officers hurt

Protests in London have been largely peaceful but were marred by scuffles outside Downing Street.

www.google.com

Lying toad.

 

[Pickman's model]

It's The Spectator.

Yes. They've a long and unhappy history of far right writers. Mark Steyn. Taki. To name but two.

 

[BusLanes]

BLM really broke a lot of people. Observers not participants.

Like imagine still being angry four years later when you were not on the marches. Just some gob shite.

Yet this still comes up in the conservative party leadership race. People pretend the BLM marches were ultra violent like the racist thugs of last week. Totally divorced with reality

 

[brogdale]

BLM really broke a lot of people. Observers not participants.

Like imagine still being angry four years later when you were not on the marches. Just some gob shite.

Yet this still comes up in the conservative party leadership race. People pretend the BLM marches were ultra violent like the racist thugs of last week. Totally divorced with reality

triggered racists stay triggered racists

 

[agricola]

I wondered when we'd see a response to the riots from Toby Daniel Moorsom Young and, typically, his article, titled 'Free speech stops riots', swings between victimhood and paranoid fantasising.


So far, so batshit.

Of course, this is all about the fictitious "two-tier policing" and, predictably, Tobes shoehorns in his loathing of BLM and people of colour generally.

He isn't even putting in the effort any more, bless him. All of that article, but especially ".... the best remedy for harmful speech is not enforced silence, but more and better speech" could easily be read as a call to get rid of social media, and Twitter in particular.

 

[tim]

triggered racists stay triggered racists

Either that or they change.

 

[brogdale]

That's Lord Cunt, to you.

 

[tim]

Cunto di tutti Cunti.

Let's hope the shit gets Dorissed.

 

[ID47]

Cunto di tutti Cunti.

Let's hope the shit gets Dorissed.

There's yet to be be a gulag built cold enough for that cunt. I'd take him out back and do the decent thing...

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

Cunto di tutti Cunti.

Let's hope the shit gets Dorissed.

Or what Tim. What you gonna do about it?

 

[tim]

Or what Tim. What you gonna do about it?

Not being on the House of Lords appointments committee, it is not currently in my purview to do anything.

Are you going to spend the weekend aggressively stalking me round the boards challenging me to put up or shut up on any comment I make?

 

[BigMoaner]

He isn't even putting in the effort any more, bless him. All of that article, but especially ".... the best remedy for harmful speech is not enforced silence, but more and better speech" could easily be read as a call to get rid of social media, and Twitter in particular.

Wow. Cant like this enough. Mark fisher put it well - “before” we got one or two phone calls a week, and that was fine. We didn’t feel more less on the brink of utopia than now. Now we pick up the phone over and and over and over. We even pick it up when no one is ringing.

“Join the conversation!” And end up with fine up standing sophisticates like Trump and makes us billions and billions in the process.

 

[nino_savatte]

That's Lord Cunt, to you.

Lord C0nt, surely?

 

[nino_savatte]

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the noble Lord Young and his, erm, companion.

 

[not henry]

There's yet to be be a gulag built cold enough for that cunt. I'd take him out back and do the decent thing...

oooer that's not allowed on urban. We can still shoot the cunts but we have to keep it on the down low.

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

Are you going to spend the weekend aggressively stalking me round the boards challenging me to put up or shut up on any comment I make?

Yes

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

I love you tim. Happy birthday for the other day btw