I am a little bit troubled by all this, and where things are going.
I first became aware of it earlier, I think on The Guardian website, where they basically said the article has been deleted because it expressed anti-semitic views.
Whilst I abhor anti-semitism, and just about all other sorts of prejudice, I'd like to make my own fucking mind up. I would like there to be an open and rational exchange of ideas and views, however horrid some of those views may be.
I believe with coming of the 'information age' ironically ideas are much more carefully monitored than they used to be - there seems to me to be less, not more, freedom of thought. Recent cases where both Germain Greer and Richard Dawkins have been 'no platformed' really, really worry me.
I am not saying that Kevin Myers is anything but a total cunt - just that it is better that he be engaged in some way, rather than deleted. The Bruce Springsteen thing is just fucking weird.
There is no "rational exchange of ideas" here. Printing antisemitic trash in a major newspaper gives legitimacy to antisemitism and leads to people's lives being damaged or destroyed.
I am a little bit troubled by all this, and where things are going.
I first became aware of it earlier, I think on The Guardian website, where they basically said the article has been deleted because it expressed anti-semitic views.
Whilst I abhor anti-semitism, and just about all other sorts of prejudice, I'd like to make my own fucking mind up. I would like there to be an open and rational exchange of ideas and views, however horrid some of those views may be.
I believe with coming of the 'information age' ironically ideas are much more carefully monitored than they used to be - there seems to me to be less, not more, freedom of thought. Recent cases where both Germain Greer and Richard Dawkins have been 'no platformed' really, really worry me.
I am not saying that Kevin Myers is anything but a total cunt - just that it is better that he be engaged in some way, rather than deleted. The Bruce Springsteen thing is just fucking weird.