‘Bully-boy progressives need to stop silencing free speech’

Oct 22, 2019 by

from Christian Institute:

Illiberal ‘progressives’ should lose their “God complex” and stop trying to shut down freedom of speech and expression, a columnist has said.

Writing for The Sunday Telegraph, Zoe Strimpel said she was recently castigated by a colleague and two “extremely right-on” PhD students after she criticised ‘gender awareness’ workshops designed “to boost our handling of transgender issues”.

When she stated she did not feel such workshops would improve her work, and that she would decline to attend, she was met with “serious disagreement and a passionate defence of such workshops being mandatory”.

Strimpel noted that “the evermore powerful PC militia” are increasingly policing people’s thoughts.

She said: “Righteous ‘progressives’ now wield astonishing cultural and moral power”.

She added that the rise of workplace and university ‘awareness’ workshops shows they won’t be satisfied until everyone’s thinking is in line with their own: “Those who don’t fall into line will be forced”.

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