Hitler started by killing pigeons
So you're worse than a fascist.
But I think her point is more that he pretends he's defending free speech by saying outrageous things - but then it turns out he can't handle it if anyone calls him out. Note the bit where she explicitly says she isn;t calling him a fascist or white supremacist because he'll sue.
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So you're worse than a fascist.
But I think her point is more that he pretends he's defending free speech by saying outrageous things - but then it turns out he can't handle it if anyone calls him out. Note the bit where she explicitly says she isn;t calling him a fascist or white supremacist because he'll sue.
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She throws around the '-ists' very freely in the opening paras
Talking about his views. Sounds a bit cake having-and-eating.
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Talking about his views. Sounds a bit cake having-and-eating.
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old newspaper trick.
'there is no suggestion that Mr Brown is responsible for a string of frauds which have left dozens of pensioners in penury'. IE there is *every* suggestion that this is so, but our learned friends have insisted we include this line and the article can be published if sign in blood an oath that every other single line is true - and we can prove it.
But I do think she's being more nuanced than that. He isn't a nazi - he's a troll monster wind-up merchant. But as she points out, the idiots that follow him like a baa-ing mob don;t get that. "real life consequences" is the key phrase.
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'there is no suggestion that Mr Brown is responsible for a string of frauds which have left dozens of pensioners in penury'. IE there is *every* suggestion that this is so, but our learned friends have insisted we include this line and the article can be published if sign in blood an oath that every other single line is true - and we can prove it.
But I do think she's being more nuanced than that. He isn't a nazi - he's a troll monster wind-up merchant. But as she points out, the idiots that follow him like a baa-ing mob don;t get that. "real life consequences" is the key phrase.
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