Comments on: Free Speech, even for Kevin Myers

By: cearta.ie » Should galleries and museums display offensive art?

cearta.ie » Should galleries and museums display offensive art? — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 11:17:41 +0000

[...] thought we hate, even that of David Irving (eg, here, here, here, and here), Jean-Marie le Pen, or Kevin Myers, and even – especially! – in multi-cultural societies, especially – especially!! [...]

By: Luo Gang

Luo Gang — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:44:34 +0000

In issues such as these there are only power struggles between different interest groups. There are no neutral arbiters. For example, Myers churns out his racist filth but so long as he keeps the PC lobby happy and doesn’t use the word ‘nigger’, he is safe. Being allowed to write what he likes in a mainstream periodical is a privilege not afforded to militant anti-fascists and so therefore the playing field is not level.

By: Eoin

Eoin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:01:10 +0000

My difficulty with this kind of argument is who gets to define what is “fascist”, and how can we be sure that this adjective won’t simply be applied to all disfavoured or unwelcome speech?

By: Luo Gang

Luo Gang — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:39:44 +0000

This pious, Voltairesque drivel about freedom of speech is a fine example of middle-class intellectuals burying their heads in the sand. After all, when racist propaganda becomes racist attack, they are safely in their own comfortable middle-class areas. When Myer’s fascist filth is tolerated in mainstream newspapers it goes from racist ideology to ‘acceptable opinion’. The correct response to Myers is that of ‘No Platform to Fascists’. We can get along well enough in this country without indulging his spite-filled diatribes.

By: cearta.ie » Monkeys and blasphemy

cearta.ie » Monkeys and blasphemy — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:19:47 +0000

[...] the monkeys-and-typewriters principle, I suppose it was inevitable that Kevin Myers would eventually write something with which I would agree. He did, today, in the Irish [...]