I've written about fear an awful lot in
the past weeks and with good reason. Fear dominates society in the
West: fear of debt, war, terrorism, and the loss of civil liberties.
These are all things worthy of being afraid of, even if how we
understand these issues may vary a lot from person to person. Fear is
a normal, if rare, part of the human condition. Western society is
especially afraid these days for any number of reasons, which cannot
be good for the collective health and psyche of people in the West.
People are also afraid of phantom
threats ranging from alien abduction, the New World Order, and the
Patriarchy, none of which has evidence that supports their existence.
Yet each gets blamed by adherents for all manner of evil in the
world. Only one of these threats doesn't immediately get its
adherents associated with tinfoil hats and vast government
conspiracies to control the world for the benefit of a few people at
the expense of the enslavement of the rest of the world: the
Patriarchy – and, to be honest, plenty of people claim that the
Patriarchy is some kind of phantom subconscious conspiracy that
enslaves the world.
The dimensions feminists use to scare
women with claims of a Patriarchy ruling the world are so numerous
that I'd have to write a book to chronicle all of them, but there are
a couple of handy examples. The first is the trial outcome of GregoryAllen Elliot,
which involved Elliot tweeting angry statements towards women who
sought the censorship and public punishment of the creator of a game
some (READ: Feminists) found offensive; public punishment included
attempting to find the game's creator and his place of employment so
that feminists could harass his employer into terminating him. Elliot
tweeted angry messages to these women and was charged with
harassment. This case served as the first case in the Canadian courts
on the topic of freedom of speech.
Elliot was found not guilty of all
charges, resulting in many feminists decrying the outcome and
claiming that it adds to the climate of fear some women face online.
Feminist activists are so afraid of the alleged harassment that women
face online that Feminist leadership has even called for the UN tocensor the internet of 'hate speech,' which is a truly Orwellian
proposition.
Keep in mind that we're talking about angry messages sent via
Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube.....in other words, messages sent from
long distances that pose no physical threat to anyone. In the name of
protecting the feelings of the easily offended feminists would censor
people in the public sphere.
A great example of this is the case of
Richard Dawkins tweeting an amusing cartoon comparing contemporaryfeminism to Islamism.
The response from the Femisphere was swift: direct harassment of
Richard Dawkins followed by his being disinvited to speak at theNortheast Conference for Science and Skepticism for tweeting a
video that hurt some people's feelings.
As
I've said earlier, fear is possibly the most powerful tool for
political radicals to achieve their goals. In the name of protecting
people's feelings, today's SJWs are ready to sacrifice free speech.
Don't believe me? Recently a conservative activist went to Yale
university with a petition to repeal the First Amendment, which many
students signed.
This is a prime example of why feminism is an authoritarian movement,
as any attempt to curtail freedom of speech in the name of protecting
people is the hallmark of all illiberal movements in history.
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