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‘Now, you may agree or disagree with the idea that Islam is repressive of women and gays…’

July 12, 2012 By Kathy Shaidle

Brendan O’Neill writes:

…but it is an idea nonetheless, a view some individuals have arrived at after thinking about various issues. To lump such an outlook together with abusive terms like “goatf**ker”, as if they both come from the same spectrum of racial hatred, is a see-through attempt to demonise certain political ideas by branding them racist.

One is forced to ask: who is really being intolerant here? Web-surfers who criticise Islam and don’t like the ideology of feminism, or respectable media outlets that now denounce pretty much everything they disagree with as “trolling”?

The war on trolling is starting to look less like a demand for civility, and more like a demand for conformism.

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