Omid Djalili on women's rights issues - not funny at all

He might just be attacking Nazis to be fair.

oh right so the woman who asked him to stop comparing feminists to nazis is a nazi? riight.

Djalil is attacking anyone outside his approved circle of people who should be permitted to speak, which should be the focus.

He might just be attacking Nazis to be fair. There have been rows in the past over both Nick Griffin and David Irving being asked to speak at Oxford, and it's possible any law changes might enshrine their right to do so.

And of course the supreme irony was that it was free speech that did for Nick Griffin. Lots of people on the left were outraged at Question Time giving him a platform - but in fact once he's exposed himself as a fucking Muppet live on TV in front of an audience of millions his political career tanked.

Six months after Griffin's appearance on Question Time the BNP, which was still led by him, achieved over half a million votes in the 2010 general election - the strongest showing ever by a far right party in the UK by a long way. It's a liberal myth that his appearance on Question Time caused a drop in popularity.

Thankfully the party later entered near collapse due to in-fighting, as far right parties often do, but they were certainly not harmed by his QT appearance.

No he's got three deleted posts AND one that's been deleted for quoting a deleted post. Right from the first post disagreeing with him, he was tone policing and griping about militant feminists, which is going to get people backs up on a feminist board. And he admitted he was trolling for reaction. Is that not childish too?

Anyway, that's given him far more attention than he deserves. And probably not near enough the attenhe craves.

I am also v disappointed in Omid and probably won't be paying his comedy much mind any more. I'm tired of this polarising "left good, right evil" nonsense and anyone who espouses it. It's stupid, immature thinking, it's not reality and it's entirely not helpful. Christ knows where it's all going to end.

MissBarbary I can understand why you take that point as a lot of his posts have been deleted including the one where he admits he's only here to get a rise out of women. I'm all up for debate and hearing alternative views but I don't see why we have to indulge bad faith antagonism.

He has I think 3 deleted posts one of which is for quoting someone else's deleted post. There are a lot of deleted posts by several posters. I don't see anything particularly trollish about his remaining posts - some of the "behold a man" and " why don't you get back looking after your baby" posts are unnecessary.

I'll be avoiding Djalil after this - I don't think he specifically called Todd a Nazi but he definitely called an innocent bystander that and has no respect for freedom of speech. I suspect my being a Conservative voter means he wouldn't want me as a fan anyway.

Oh I see that his trolling posts have been removed, so you possibly didn't see them, @missbarbary . But he did straight up admit he was trolling.

@MissBarbary I think it's more that he jumped on here to tone police people, then admitted that he was just trolling for reactions that is the issue with their posts.

Wow, he started out looking stupid and now he looks really stupid.

He's not bothered to listen to what many people have kindly explained to him, and instead is still insisting on calling people Nazis.

Why?

He is in interesting contrast to Otto English - who backed down, and wrote something like: 'Ah I didn't realise all this/it was more complex than I thought.'

I know which one comes across much better.

NewParent seems to be saying the Nazi comment was not a specific attack on Todd and feminists. I think that's a reasonable interpretation and it's what I would make of it. It can be interpreted the way the majority have taken it, but the majority here are coming at it from a particular view point.

For all the talk on here about not being an echo chamber/ being open to debate the veneer is rather thin.

Djalil is attacking anyone outside his approved circle of people who should be permitted to speak, which should be the focus.

Its not a good look for OD, maybe he's planning an early retirement?

On a positive note, its lovely in these uncertain times and in the midst of lockdown that some things like getting new visitors during half term remain the same.

I think it's a bit different if he's actively targeting one person though.

Definately not, let him hang himself with his own rope. We need idiots like that to expose the issue, and push back but not cancellation.

I don't have a twitter account any more, otherwise I would. That's flat-out bullying. He's not looking good here at all.

I've reported Djalil's attacks on @Tarunperin. Has anyone else?

I wonder if anything will be done?

And none of whom are nazis, obviously.

The responses to NewParent are pretty childish.

The original tweet could be interpreted as an attack on Todd and by extension on feminists and left- wing feminists. I suppose if that's the issue at the forefront of one's mind that is how it would be taken.

Equally it can be interpreted as an attack on anyone who isn't a wokey- cokey lefty. I'm not a left- wing feminist and I read it as a general attack on the likes of the people I mentioned earlier and any others such as Germaine Greer, Julies Bindel and Burchill, Douglas Murray, Piers Morgan, Rod Liddle all of whom, for different reasons, annoy the "liberal" left.

Re Gina Carano. The trans allies had her in their sites since the pronoun boop-bop-beep thing. Any transgression would be pounced on like she was the devil incarnate. Such a double standard but that's nothing new.

*That's horrific!

Gina Carano got sacked for making a clumsy comparison to the Holocaust (antisemitic for minimising the Holocaust but her target was ordinary people who went along with the Nazis, not Jewish people).

Djalili gets away with likening ordinary women to members of the Nazi inner circle.

I'd call him a cunt, but he lacks the warmth and depth.*

Yet Gina's co-star hasn't received any pushback for this post. Funny huh? I wonder what the difference could be?

I have Opinions with a capital O about people who casually trivialise the Nazis, and the holocaust. If I tell you what I think of Djalili now, I'll probably get banned, but suffice it to say, I'll be voting with my feet when he comes on TV.

I don't endorse casual anti-semitism.

[quote PotholeParadies]I don't think Omid has learnt anything yet.

He's still targeting the woman he called Adolf last night by calling her Eva Braun.

This was 18 minutes ago.

Nazi is exactly what I meant in the tweet. You called me “despicable” and I jokingly called you “Adolf”. 1-1. Move on Eva (Braun). There I didn’t misgender you this time.

twitter.com/omid9/status/1362001919087169536?s=19[/quote]
Wow, doubling down on his ignorance and stupidity. He's probably dug his heels in on this and his pride won't allow him to go back.

He's still targeting the woman he called Adolf last night by calling her Eva Braun.

Some people really don't do well on twitter.