Another sizeable #FacePalm moment today.
Several Australian universities have an active voice with regards to the issue of domestic violence and associated topics. Monash and La Trobe are two that spring to mind. They are seemingly/usually in lockstep with the prevailing feminist position on the matter. To which I’m occasionally drawn to respond.
Today La Trobe University issued a tweet stating: “There are actions we take to stem the tide of domestic violence, say researchers Jess Hill & Michael Salter — starting with the industries that help to fuel a spark before it is lit.” I gather that this statement was somewhat of a follow-on from an online forum they convened the previous evening, as described here.
Anyway I responded to that tweet, but within an hour or two my post was “hidden“.
That’s right, I wasn’t communicating with some zany little feminist NGO, but a well-recognised university. And as you can see, I wasn’t being threatening or profane. Just expressing a point of view that was <shudder> not shared by the feminist lobby.
Should the university staff ever choose to explain their actions, which is unlikely, then I’ll post it here.
Oh, this last statement (below) is rich. Somebody had better warn the feminist lobby that it’s apparently difficult to profit from family and domestic violence.
Informed debate – a quaint concept from the pre-woke era… There is so much at stake these days – jobs, funding, institutional prestige – and the entire sector that is attached and interdependent – such as courts, child-savers, police, various social workers and counselling functionaries, media commentators and more – even some politicians have basically made their name based on the fervent adoption of the feminist mantra – Gillard, Stott-Despoja, Hansen-Young… Free speech is dead, as we have seen recently, anything that goes against the approved narrative is hate speech, from far-right domestic terrorists… Eric Blair wrote a book once, well know, and it was meant to be a warning,,, not an instruction manual for quasi-fascist governments… it may not be 1984 anymore, but 2024 is portentous…