Monday 15 August 2022 02:01 AM DAILY MAIL COMMENT: No place for pacifism in these culture wars trends now
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What's the difference between an Islamist fundamentalist and a trans rights extremist? Not as much as we may have thought, it seems.
Where crushing free speech is concerned, they are very much on the same page.
These disparate groups are trying to silence JK Rowling for the sin of speaking her mind – first over the rights of natural-born women, now in support of Salman Rushdie. It takes the maxim that my enemy’s enemy is my friend to absurd limits.
However, this is what we’ve come to after years of allowing freedom of expression to be chipped away.
These disparate groups are trying to silence JK Rowling (pictured above in March) for the sin of speaking her mind – first over the rights of natural-born women, now in support of Salman Rushdie
The attack on Mr Rushdie is an extreme and hideous example of intolerance. But it’s also what can happen when ideas and opinions are censored by the mob.
We are not there in Britain yet. But cancel culture and spewing hatred by Twitterstorm put us on a slippery slope.
A feminist who believes people can change gender but not sex. A history don who says the British Empire may not have been wholly bad. Almost anyone on the Conservative side of politics.
Under the new orthodoxy, these are the worst kind of heretics. They must be shamed, pilloried and generally hounded out of public life. It’s positively medieval.
On the pretext of diversity and inclusion, woke inquisitors are trampling over this country’s global reputation as a beacon of freedom. To her credit, Attorney General Suella Braverman is fighting back. In the Mail this
