Comments by "mogznwaz" (@mogznwaz) on "Anti-Woke: A Duty to Offend - Brendan O'Neill (dubbed "The Most Hated Man on UK Campuses")" video.

  1. I like Brendan O'Neill and agree with a lot of what he says. I don't agree with all his views but the point is he is free to air them and I am free to listen and make up my own mind. That's why I, as a generally pretty left wing liberal person, no longer associate with the left. Identity politics, groupthink and censorship are abhorrent to me and I find myself defending the so-called alt right nowadays because they appear to share more of my values!!! It's weird to feel that way. I'm not easily offended at all - Milo, Carl Benjamin and co aren't even on my radar of offensiveness. I find screeching, violent sjws and antifa obsessing over 'bad' words and identities, rather than actions or real equality, far more offensive.
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  2. Totally agree 👍
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  3. Yes, so much for Martin Luther King's elegant philosophy that you judge by the content of someone's character not their skin colour...
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  4. You're not alone
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  5. Well put
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  6.  @tonyromano6220  I'm not a man 😉
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  7. I went to uni in the early 90s and it was already a hotbed of Marxist-Feminist groupthink. I became quite militant, probably said the word 'patriarchy' 10 times a day, because at that time my feeling that life wasn't fair (for women particularly) found expression in the language of oppressed and oppressors. It contained some grain of truth but since then my views have evolved (I grew up) I discarded the black and white bluntness of that ideology because I've realised it fundamentally clashes with my core values of free speech and individual rights. Now I just try to pick my way through the uncertainty and grey areas of life, without dogma and attempting to see nuance. I have been horrified by what I see on campuses today, how what I experienced has been amplified and metastasised into the mainstream. As Christopher Hitchens would say 'the values of the Enlightenment' must be fought for, we cannot take them for granted.
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  8. Yes so true. I went to uni in the early 90s and it was already a hotbed of Marxist-Feminist groupthink. I became quite militant, probably said the word 'patriarchy' 10 times a day, because at that time my feeling that life wasn't fair (for women particularly) found expression in the language of oppressed and oppressors. It contained some grain of truth but since then my views have evolved (I grew up) I discarded the black and white bluntness of that ideology because I've realised it fundamentally clashes with my core values of free speech and individual rights. Now I just try to pick my way through the uncertainty and grey areas of life, without dogma and attempting to see nuance. I have been horrified by what I see on campuses today, how what I experienced has been amplified and metastasised into the mainstream. As Christopher Hitchens would say 'the values of the Enlightenment' must be fought for, we cannot take them for granted.
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