Stop Funding Hate has a simple aim: political censorship
by Brendan O’Neill, Spectator:
Here’s a law of politics that is about as cast-iron as a law of politics can be: people who hate tabloid newspapers are snobs. Every time. Scratch a Daily Mail basher or those people who seethe daily about the Sun and you will find someone who’s really just scared of the throng and of what all this tabloid fare is doing to their brains.
From Nietzsche, who said a mass newspaper is what happens when the ‘rabble… vomit their bile’, to Noam Chomsky, who says popular papers ‘dull people’s brains’, to the feminist campaign against Page 3, which said the Sun’s half-clad ladies ‘conditioned’ men to have ‘negative attitudes’ towards women, people who are freaked out by tabloids are really freaked out by the rabble who read them; by the suggestible masses apparently being moulded into an army of dull-brained hate-mongers by alarming front pages and pics of women without their bras.
And it is in this spiteful spirit that Stop Funding Hate now follows. SFH is a painfully snooty campaign group, run by the kind of people who come out in hives when they see plebs reading the Star on the bus and who have sleepless nights thinking about what passions the Mail might excite in the masses come the dawn.
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Read also: Campaign group that is accused of bullying newspapers admits it wants to impose its own views on the media, Mailonline
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