Foolish
The journey not the arrival matters. How did this guy get to the conclusion he did?
The “foolish young man” Kelvin Morgan mentions here is the one who repeatedly smashed his fist into the eye socket of a woman decades older than he is, because he hates her views on sex and gender.
The young man is the perp here, and the woman with the smashed eye socket is the victim, but Mr Morgan’s worry and concern are all for the strong young man with the flying fists, as if he were frail and vulnerable.
I’ll never understand it.
Posie speaks, other people commit or threaten violence, therefore Posie shouldn’t be allowed to speak.
It doesn’t apparently matter whether Posie advocated violence, nor even if the targets of the threats are people who committed violence. No matter what it is, Posie must not be allowed to speak.
Where have we seen this elsewhere? Oh, right:
Criticize Islam, other people commit or threaten violence, therefore no one is allowed to criticize Islam.
The merits of the speech or criticism don’t matter, only that someone might be upset enough to commit violence. Heckler’s veto.
I know this is hardly the most important point, but there’s something so grating about adults using the term “mummy.” Unless describing undead Egyptians, of course.
The point would have a lot more merit in the United States, but I just don’t see an NZ outrage mob descending on this fool.
Hang on a tic, I thought we were explicitly not supposed to use disability-related terms as excuses for violent or dangerous behaviour, because illness/disorder diagnoses are distinct from “asshole”, because “mentally ill” or “disordered” or whathaveyou doesn’t mean “dangerous”.
Suddenly now a diagnosis of ADHD mean a free pass to punch someone hard enough to break bones, and women are prone to violence? (Oops I mean “cis” women, trans “women” are harmless, unless they’re not in which case it’s still vital to call them women in defiance of all evidence to the contrary because shutupthatswhyWHAARGARBLE)
So hard to keep up these days.