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

The man doth protests to much methinks. Deep down he knows he is in the wrong. Everyone keeps telling him he's acting like a prize prat but no he keeps on going because he's gone too far. He can't be seen as being wrong.

Oh well, I quite liked him and is a comedian I would quite happily see but now will now avoid because he's revealed himself to be a total bell end.

He clearly neither knows nor cares who Selina Todd is, but assumes her experience must be irrelevant to the discussion. Only idiots would assume that a woman should be heard.

He absolutely knows what is going on, because of the glee at finding out that dr EM is gender critical. He’s perfectly aware that’s a free pass to a lefty bro to go after a woman and keep his hands clean.

Yes that's how I read it too.

untrammelled testeria came a close second.

The phrase whirlpool of dickery wins the internet today.

He absolutely knows what is going on, because of the glee at finding out that dr EM is gender critical. He’s perfectly aware that’s a free pass to a lefty bro to go after a woman and keep his hands clean.

Twitter spats are usually very boring, but something about this untrammelled testeria has reeled me in.

@TheCatThatGotTheCream you don't have to sign up to read tweets, just ignore the message and refresh or hit back and then click on the link again.

''Only idiots took it to mean I meant Selina Todd.'

Mate, if you didn't want people to think you meant Selina Todd, maybe don't link to an article where Selina Todd is the only deplatformed person mentioned by name, whilst saying people don't want to listen to Nazis.

shows he knows nothing about the debate

This is often put forward as a position that can be modified or abandoned at no cost. It's not always true. It's often a "run with the hare and hunt with the hounds" position.

His glee at 'Oh DrEm is anti trans?? this should be interesting!' shows he knows nothing about the debate.
He's also now upsetting the TRAs by saying he'd have retwetted DrEms thread.

He's all over the place, and has no idea what he's wandered into and is too arrogant to stop and find out.

He doesn't seem able to think:
When I said Nazis? who did I mean? I guess I meant people who are de platformed.
Oh seems many of them are women. I didn't reda the articel did I?
Oh dear I seem to have implied a load of women are Nazis.
That's not a great look.
I wonder why women are being de platformed?
Maybe I should find out...

I don't know anything about this, I can't click the twitter link as it asks me to sign up. All I will say is that as a man, his opinion on womens rights doesn't matter.

On the subject of free speech, I just saw this LibDem twitter post regarding Layla Moran on QT

Should free speech at universities be a priority right now? "Absolutely not"

mobile.twitter.com/LibDems/status/1362548170568433669

Quite the mantrum.

Oddly hypnotic.

Slow motion car crash.

Self-destruct level 100 has been unlocked.

Tombero has it right he has proved the point he was trying to disprove.

3 He didn't say only Nazis but did say Nazis. (I think)

5 He also called a woman he didn't agree with a bot.

And yeah, as PP have pointed out, I don't think he's as unaware of gender politics as it might seem.

A twitter tantrum lasting days in which he makes clear he's targeting one woman and goes looking for evidence to support a "see, I told you she was a witch" stance.

Yes, exactly.

Point 8
When someone points out that he's told some fairly 'off' jokes himself in the past, he appears to take the line I can't possibly be antisemitic because one of my mates is famously Jewish, tagging in said mate who sensibly keeps the fuck out of the whirlpool of dickery.

There are also points 6 and 7 (among others):

1. When this wasn't working he claimed his tweets had just been jokey banter.

1. A twitter tantrum lasting days in which he makes clear he's targeting one woman and goes looking for evidence to support a "see, I told you she was a witch" stance.

Hi, I haven’t posted here before, but I’ve been lurking a lot.

I wanted to check I’m understanding this all correctly (genuinely, not with faux innocence):

1 An alarming number of women have been ‘cancelled’ for expressing GC views. This stops there being a rational debate.

2 The Government call for a change in legislation in order to support free speech.

3 A comedian tweets the article claiming it distracts from bigger things (I disagree with that as I find I can hold a number of thoughts in my head at one time). He also says it’s only Nazis being cancelled.

4 A number of people try to explain point 1 to him.

5 He calls people Adolf, Eva, Nazi etc, threatens to sue and instigates a pile on and is gleeful to learn the person he is targeting is GC.

Thereby giving a textbook example of point 1 and proving why point 2 is necessary?

Jesus. Is he quite well?

What a very unpleasant man. This was his original tweet:
mobile.twitter.com/omid9/status/1361620826089549826
which linked to:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-55995979

The last couple of paragraphs in that article are about Selina Todd's comments and women being afraid to speak out (snippet below).

He then doubled down by calling women Adolf and Eva Braun, and then denying that he was calling women Nazis. .
I honestly don't see how he has a leg to stand on legally. While I don't want to see DrEm get sued, I'd love to see him try to make his case in court. A judge would be a lot less sympathetic than his twitter followers.

I'm also bemused by the fact that he's gone on about her 'sending her 14k twitter followers after him' when he's got 292k and is still tweeting about her, even though she blocked him and made her account private a couple of days ago.

'Prof Selina Todd, an Oxford University academic who previously had 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.

At what point does this become targeted harassment?

I'd go for the moment he agreed that he was acting like a stalker:

<a class="break-all" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210218222640/twitter.com/omid9/status/1362511435578957827" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">web.archive.org/web/20210218222640/twitter.com/omid9/status/1362511435578957827

Omid Djalili
Are Dr Em tweets still there?

Wicked witch of the North
Bit stalkery innit?

Omid Djalili
💯 and I’m not letting go