Sunday, October 8, 2023

One wonders which country—the UK or the US—is less “civilized” now. Frankly, I think it is a “wash" when it comes to freedom of speech and the MeToo movement

 

It is a strange world we live in. Even in supposedly “superior” civilizations like the UK, some of its denizens can’t help but be influenced by “inferior” civilizations, such as the U.S. Take for instance the recent firing of Dan Wootton from the GB network that he helped found. He had gone from a “liberal” journalistic activist as a gay man willing to join in the “MeToo” movement on the side of Amber Heard’s lies and write that infamous “wife-beater” story in The Sun, to becoming a right-wing gadfly against the “establishment.” Of course Wootton set himself up for a take-down, and out came the allegations of sexual abuse, this time against males.

These allegations were not taken particularly seriously by the mainstream media at first; what required Wootton’s actual “downfall” was when a female was involved, when he didn’t attempt to contradict comments made by a guest named Lawrence Fox. That was basically “it.” However,  the female “journalist" in question, feminist activist Ava Evans aka Santina, is one of those “entitled,” privileged blonde, blue-eyed white women who are allowed the pretense of being “victims,” or “speaking for them” when the reality is that they enjoy the exercise of power by destruction,  and this obviously is what is going on here. 

Just how "common" is this? Here we see Colonel Kurtz talking with someone who helped cancel a man with false allegations (if one person already lied, then why not "me too"?), and how she now feels "guilty" about engaging in excessive exaggeration simply because she was "mad" at him; but that train left the station a long time ago. There is no going back now, there is no consequences for false accusations that destroyed someone's life:

 

 

How did this all start? Well, we should go back to last March, when Evans/Santina made light of the false rape accusations against and attempted suicides of the three men jailed in the Eleanor Williams case. Williams had previously made a false rape allegation against a man named Cameron Bibby in 2017; Bibby reported that even with the claims proven false he continues to be harassed online and ostracized in public. Jordan Tengrove, another falsely accused man, spent 73 days in jail, and despite Williams admitting her guilt he is shocked that people (like Evans) still take her side.

The Indian men accused by Williams, along with claim that she had been “groomed” as a “sex slave” by “Asian” men and had been “transported” by the accused to a house where she was “gang-raped” and beaten in the face with a hammer, were apparently targeted solely because  they were Indian. The town of Barrow has a history of racial intolerance and xenophobia against immigrants, and the accusations made by Williams were easily believed. Following the accusations, the number of racist hate crimes and hate speech on social media skyrocketed in the UK.

In March when Williams was sentenced to 8.5 years in prison for “perverting” justice after admitting she lied about the rape allegations and as well as confessing the “hammer blows” were self-inflicted, Evans went on Piers Morgan’s show…

 


…and was grilled on her hypocritical stance that Williams shouldn’t be imprisoned, but be sent to a mental health clinic. She also insisted that prison was horrible place to be for her, another claim Morgan found to be odd, since prison isn’t supposed to be a country club if you are a convicted criminal (unless, of course, you are Elizabeth Holmes). Evans went on to claim that men did not deserve the presumption of “innocence” or “anonymity” because women, well, never “lie,” and anyways, only one percent of rapes are reported, which Morgan also suggested was an “exaggeration.”

On the website MetroUK we are told this about a more recent episode:

Piers Morgan was joined on this programme by Isabel Oakeshott, Connor Tomlinson and Evans to debate whether the #MeToo movement had gone too far.

During the discussion, Oakeshott said that things are difficult for young teenage boys to navigate relationships now: ‘It’s hard enough being a young teenager working out how things are without the terror that if you touch in the wrong place at the wrong time you may find that your whole life is destroyed.’

‘See I like that terror. I think that men should be frightened. I think men should be frightened to touch women in a way they are not comfortable with,’ Evans responded.

Later, Oakeshott added: ‘Young boys are all terrified. I know that from talking to my teenage son. He’s like “I’m just not going there”. Is that healthy?’

Evans replied: ‘Yes, I think it is actually. I think it’s better to not have a physical relationship than to have one that could ruin a woman’s life’.

Tomlinson then informed the panel that he’d advised his male friends to not bring girls home, as they could possibly make ‘a false accusation against you’.

Note that Evans/Santina is only concerned when female lives are "destroyed," and her self-serving "spin" is what damages her credibility when it is clearly a fabrication of what is really happening. Even in the Weinstein case, it was (at least in his mind) a "quid pro quo" deal that was a Hollywood "tradition" since films were first made with dime store "starlets" looking to make the big time. 

No wonder some people rightly believe that such people are a danger to justice. Yet now we have “turmoil” over the “misogynistic” and “vile” comments made by Fox on Wootton’s show, that went something like this:

We're past the watershed so I can say this… show me a single, self-respecting man that would like to climb into bed with that woman… ever… ever. That little woman has been fed... spoon-fed oppression day after day after day, starting with the lie about the gender pay gap. She's sat there, and I'm going like, if I met you at a bar and that was like sentence three, chances of me just walking away are just huge. We need powerful, strong, amazing women who make great points for themselves. We don't need these feminist 4.0. They're pathetic and embarrassing. Who'd want to shag that?

OK, that seems like a perfectly "reasonable" response to various things that Evans/Santina has said in the past, except he probably should have left out the "shag" part, which apparently is what she is most aggrieved about, even after she "advised" as much to those "terrorized" boys who she also proclaimed shouldn't be "advised" to beware of what girls may accuse them of if they feel they are not "treated right." So why is she not made to “suffer” any repercussions for her own misandrist, "vile" comments? Only the people calling her out on them deserve to be punished and cancelled. 

People like Evans/Santina enjoy the power they have to terrorize society to the point of where Tomlinson argued that people like her are only trying to “protect” themselves from their own “vile” commentary by denying others their “freedom of speech” to point it out. Of course Wootton, even though he didn't actually "agree" with Fox's comments, was already walking on thin ice.

So this is where we are at now, at least in the UK. One wonders which country—the UK or the US—is less “civilized” now. Frankly, I think it is “wash.”

No comments:

Post a Comment