Tag: free speech
Your balls are in her Court
A few days ago, council workers in New Orleans tied ropes to a 6-metre bronze statue of General Robert E Lee, the best known of the Confederate generals, and lifted …
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Culturally appropriate this!
There is no copyright over culture, and there should not be one, contrary to what an increasingly loud and influential minority wants. The so-called Social Justice Warriors, who have taken …
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Let God kill them all AND sort them out
Some very concerning news from our neighbour up north, where the outgoing governor of Jakarta, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, commonly known as Ahok, was sentenced to two years in jail for …
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Triggser warning
The Australian Human Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs has finally found freedom of speech she would like to defend – Yassmin Abdel-Magied’s. Being inexperienced in the area, Triggs of course …
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Halal Certification Authority pres: White Australian Christians lack compassion (Updated)
Social media star, Yassmin Abdel-Magied, she of “Islam is the most feminist religion” and more recently “Lest We Forget [insert your favourite leftie cause]” (I’m paraphrasing) has found herself a valiant …
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Hunting heretics in modern Australia
Ayaan Hirsi Ali will now not be coming to Australia. Her “Hero of Heresy” speaking tour this week has been cancelled due to “security concerns”. Too heretical for some: Hirsi …
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Irony free zone
In Pakistan, being an atheist apparently makes you a terrorist: In relation to uploading blasphemous content on social media, Federal Investigation Authority (FIA) Counter Terrorism Department and secret agencies have …
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We have democratised censorship
The “Infidel” Ayaan Hirsi-Ali is coming to Australia on a speaking tour in April and she will be exercising her freedom of speech as an atheist ex-Muslim and a women’s …
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Get your government out of my engagement
If you visited this planet as a guest from outer space and quickly scanned Australian media and social media, you would probably get the idea that the question of same-sex …
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The year of being silenced
My blogging year started with a trade union official abusing and threatening me – twice. It ends with a lost December, during which the control over my blog was taken …
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Against secular blasphemy laws
So Donald Trump created quite a bit of a stir with this tweet suggesting flag burners should be punished with jail or revocation of their citizenship. No, don’t even try …
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Chrenkoff or Jerkoff? or the one in which I became a hashtag
So last night, both on here and on the Spectator blog I took to task an overenthusiastic contributor to Techly, and by extension two panelists on Monday night’s Q&A, who …
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