About 18 months ago, Djalili tweeted a BBC article about the government’s plans to promote free speech on campus. The article cited a few examples including Professor Selina Todd, who was hounded for her gender-critical feminist views.
Djalili’s comment about the article was “There’s food rotting on the docks, 1000's of companies going out of business, the worst death rate in the world and they're worried that students don't really want to listen to Nazis?”
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Obviously people tried pointing out that Professor Todd is not a Nazi, but as usual he ignored them and doubled down.
A few days ago, he tweeted a short video from his stand-up routine about the Iranian women’s football team containing four men “posing as transgender”:
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It did look as if finally the penny might be dropping – though Djalili doesn’t seem to have thought too closely about how to tell the difference between four men “posing as transgender” and actual trans women.
A few women responded to the tweet by asking whether he regretted calling gender-critical women “Nazis”.
Djalili didn’t take very well to that and denied calling women “Nazis”. He seems to have got into a nasty argument with Dr Em, who has now deleted her account.
He claims that his original tweet (the one about students not wanting to listen to Nazis) had “nothing to do with feminist or transgender issues” and that Dr Em “got crossed wires, claimed victimisation when I called her out then deleted her tweets.”
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At this point you have to wonder if the man is a bit slow on the uptake, given that his original tweet, and the article it linked to, are still there in black-and-white.
People are still trying to explain it to him, and he’s still denying it.