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Pink News reports on a gay UKIP candidate who tweeted that all feminists he’s spoken to on Twitter are “man hating cunts.” (What’s that we’re always being told about how in the UK “cunt” NEVER means a woman? Never never never ever you stupid Yank?)
Alex Nierora is the party’s candidate for Ealing and Hillingdon on the Greater London Assembly, ahead of the election on May 5.
The candidate – who is vocal within the party’s LGBT group despite previously opposing equal marriage – has spoken out to defend himself after he was caught referring to feminists as “c**ts”.
In the since-deleted tweet, sent in December, he claimed: “all feminists I have spoken to on here [Twitter] are man hating c**ts who think its ok to spread vile hate against men”, before asking: “are you even aware of how destructive feminism is?”
They include the screen grab:
And it’s not a stand-alone.
PinkNews found numerous records of Mr Nierora, who previously stood to become a councillor in 2014, getting in spats with strangers via Twitter.
He told a Muslim woman to “die and f**k off” after she claimed a cartoon was racist, branded Green Party members “aggressive fascist dictatorship supporting c**ts” over Natalie Bennett’s stance on ISIS, and told the Independent newspaper to “f**k off” for posting a story critical of his party leader.
He also twice called the Muslim woman “bitch.”
He explained to another publication that he was angry.
Speaking previously to GetWestLondon, the candidate explained: “I was responding to the hashtag #killallwhitemen started and promulgated by now ex Goldsmiths University Students’ Union Bahar Mustafa and a group of feminists who were defending what she tweeted.
“I felt Ms Mustafa’s hashtag to be racist, sexist and extremely offensive and the fact that some feminists on Twitter were defending her was reprehensible.
“While I regret the tone of my tweet I remain extremely concerned about the militant and aggressive nature of third wave feminists towards men.
“I would also like to apologise if I have caused any offence to feminists in general which is unintentional.”
So sweet of him. Of course if he’s only calling bad feminists “cunts” that’s fine then.
‘Cunt’ doesn’t mean ‘woman’ in the UK, it just means ‘person I have a very low opinion of’ (when it doesn’t mean the opposite). This person is saying something like ‘feminists are all man-hating arseholes’, but saying it a bit more strongly. It can be applied to women or men, but doesn’t mean anything about their sex. It is quite a new thing, in my experience, that women get called ‘cunt’, but I suppose that is progress of sorts.
I know US-ians find this very strange and hard to swallow, but it is just how it is. It’s why women, feminist women, are generally so free with ‘cunt’ in the UK while less so in the US, I think.