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

The article, which the OP already quoted extracts from, refers to and quotes from one (and only that one) person who has been deplatformed.

Therefore Omid has explicitly characterised her as a Nazi.

Prof Selina Todd, an Oxford University academic who previouslyhad an invitation to a conference celebrating women withdrawn over her stance on transgender rights issues,welcomed government action although she said the free speech champion could be a "blunt instrument".

She told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that universities have "dismally failed" to uphold freedom of debate in recent years.

"Things have got a lot worse for academics and for students - many of whom get in touch with me anonymously to say how frightened they are to speak out," she said.

Explain how he's an inadequate male for us?

It's responses like that which cause people to dismiss feminism. The assumption that all women are like you

Another inadequate male?

I'm losing count.

But what has his tweet got to do with feminism? There was a bit of a leap to decide this was an attack on women

Called her Adolf.

@newparent1. He said he didn't know why people were worrying about free speech, with all the important things going on but went on to say all they had done was refuse to platform a nazi. Then he called someone in the comments one for objecting.

To be fair to OD he did become slightly more gracious further on in the thread and stopped calling everyone a Nazi. He didn’t apologise or anything though.

Did you post on this thread without considering context?

newparent11 there was a whole paragraph about Selina Todd in the article he shared. In fact she was the only person mentioned by name as having been actually ‘no platformed’. All the others mentioned in the article are just giving their views on free speech. It’s not unreasonable for women to assume the person OD is referring to as a Nazi is Selina Todd.

It's not about whether it's fair to give a platform to holocaust deniers or white supremacists, it's very much about whether feminists should have a right to their views and I don't see how you, Djalili or O'Brien can pretend otherwise.

An ad hominem attack is the first indication that the person has no valid argument so they distract from the issue by namecalling.

So tedious, so juvenile.

I don't think you've read the original tweet or understood context.
He posted a news article about free speech at universities, someone replied and decided to bring up feminism out of nowhere, he said this was distracting from the point he was making.
No one can argue that there is still huge inequality between genders however trying to overpower and trample other worthy causes is overall detrimental and is what fuels the negative stereotypes of feminists.

He doesn't seem to have grasped that it's the Nazis who stamped out free speech. Defending freedom of speech doesn't make you a Nazi.

Wanker.

All very confusing.

Remember when invoking Godwin's law was seen as a bad thing?

[wanders off muttering about when the internet was all fields]

I've paid good money to watch Omid Djalili live. I did not think I could dislike him more after that.

Looking at his tweets I don't think he has any clue about the issues. I doubt he even read the article before posting a reflex 'Tories bad' comment.

He thinks he's much cleverer than he is so, of course, the people pointing out the 'Nazis' he references include left wing women 'don't understand nuance' because he can't possibly be wrong.

And the targeting of youth.

@Okokokbear Sneaky. Did that make you feel better? Meaningful comparisons can definitely be made with totalitarian uprisings, but not with GC academics requesting free speech. The SJM censorship and propaganda machine in action currently bears quite a few similarities with Germany circa 1940. Abigail Shriers books being burnt, the public being convinced of moral superiority, lofty use of rhetoric and mantra and powerful words like justice. Rainbow flags and symbols.The vilification and othering of a shared enemy who embody evil versus the purity of the true believers. The peer pressure to conform. But overall I think the current situation is much more comparable with totalitarian ideologies on the left.The Red army of the Chinese Cultural Revolution where students went after the academics. The stinking old ninth. Substitute "terfs" or "transphobes" for bourgeoise and substitute SJW for the people's army.

Does anyone feel we are going backwards in terms of women's rights? Rape is practically de-criminalised, we don't have equal pay, women dying every week at the hands of their partners and now we can't even say that our sex exists as a biological fact without being the targets of physical and verbal abuse. I have lost two friends over this because they believe that anyone who disagrees that transwomen are women is a hateful bigot who doesn't have the right to breath (paraphrasing but you get the gist). Universities are amongst the worst for fostering this attitude and there is no debate. We are just expected to hand over our sex-based, hard won rights without a murmur and just be grateful we are allowed to exist.