Free Speech And Feminist Hypocrisy

The attempted murder of Hatun Tash in London’s Hyde Park last July caused outrage, understandably, but not simply because no one should be murdered for trashing someone else’s religion or merely expressing a misguided opinion. No, feminists, including those who aren’t totally off the planet, called this an act of violence against women, misogyny, and an attempt to shut women up. Seriously? Men have been trying to shut women up since humans learned to speak. How well did that turn out?

Let’s dispel this rubbish immediately. Hatun is a fellow traveller of Jay Smith; now domiciled in the United States, Smith, who was born in India the son and grandson of Christian missionaries, spent a quarter of a century preaching against Islam at Speakers’ Corner, and like Hatun was on the receiving end of Islamist violence more than once. Hatun was attacked because like Smith she preaches against Islam, and because in the eyes of her enemies she is even worse than Smith. She is an apostate, and in their tiny minds, the penalty for apostasy is death. One more time, this attack had nothing whatsoever to do with violence against women, gendered violence, or any of that other garbage so beloved of the sisterhood.

However, this narrative is being peddled by among others Posie Parker, an otherwise admirable woman, a mother of four including three boys, and anything but a man-hater. That being said, even admirable people can be hypocrites. Posie, or Kellie-Jay to give her her proper name, is also opposed to both prostitution and pornography. The overwhelming majority of second and now third wave feminists are in this corner; they make a lot of a woman’s right to do with her body what she wants when it comes to abortion, even though this involves two bodies, but when it comes to having sex for money or taking off their clothes for money, this is exploitation, they are victims: “prostituted people” in the rhetoric of the odious Catharine MacKinnon, or “trafficked women”.

The reality is that the overwhelming majority of feminists have also been strong and at times hysterical opponents of free speech in other fields, most notably anything concerned with race and immigration, parroting the “hate speech” narratives of the extreme left and other enemies of Western civilisation.

Feminists have been in the forefront of self-styled anti-racist organisations, most of which are covert or overt fronts for leftists, for example, in the UK, the misnamed Anti-Nazi League was the front group for the Trotskyite Socialist Workers Party. Now though, the boot is on the other foot, and it is feminism that is branded a hate movement, not by Islamist fanatics in Hyde Park, but by transgender “women”, in other words, men who self-identify as women. The  hysteria has backfired to such an extent that the sentence “Woman - adult, human female” has been branded hate speech. For decades, feminists and their allies have been gaslighting us with the claim that race doesn’t really exist, now they are being asked to believe sex doesn’t really exist. If you think that is absurd, check out this creep. Not only does he claim biological sex doesn’t exist, but he wants anyone who disagrees with him dragged into court. How absurd is that, but at the same time, how delightful?!