Joe Hildebrand is a bit of a clown. He’s got a gig on Oz TV where he sits on a panel with a bunch of weird females, where he is the ‘Hahn im Korb’. Loosely translated that means he is the only rooster in a yard where feminazis babble about everything, but mostly about nothing. In the not so distant past, he used to report how sophisticated Mohammedans are, compared with regular Aussie yobbos who, you-guessed-it, were just ‘racist-bigot-Islamophobes’, you know the drill. All the more surprising that it should be old Joe who suddenly comes out for Free Speech. Buttrose & the other twats on his panel won’t like it.
What part of ‘free speech’ don’t people understand?
FREE speech is the cornerstone of healthy debates in a democratic society, so why are we constantly trying to censor it?
OPINION
FOR a pair of words that is as self-explanatory as it gets, it always amazes me that “free speech” is a concept so many people utterly fail to grasp.
The richest irony, albeit the most boringly predictable one, is that this so frequently occurs among the so-called intelligentsia, the academic left who seem to spend the bulk of their energies trying to ban short words that mean something and replace them with long ones that mean nothing.
This seems to be the last sad evolutionary stage of the inner-city libertine left, who once scoffed at societal rules in favour of fondue parties and jazz cigarettes only to end up writing the world’s longest list of dos and don’ts.
Don’s party has now become Don’s committee meeting.
And of course neither has anything to do with the actual working-class, who the left once pretended to represent. Try explaining to a Wollongong steel worker why he shouldn’t give his non-binary cisgender daughter a Barbie doll and it’s fair to say the conversation will be a short one. Steel workers, unlike academics, aren’t afraid to say what they really think.
The sinister aspect of the experts’ new world order is that it pretends to be all for free and open debate but at the same time rules any part of the debate that doesn’t comply with these prescriptive rules as out of bounds or illegitimate. This ranges from shutting down a Mexican-themed party on the grounds that it is racist to banning Milo Yiannopoulos on the grounds that he is sexist.
Milo Yiannopoulos at Le Montage in Lilyfield in Sydney’s inner west. There were violent scenes in Melbourne when protesters clashed outside a venue where he was speaking. Picture: Danny AaronsSource:News Corp Australia
















