{"id":9262,"date":"2019-03-19T10:20:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T09:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9262"},"modified":"2019-03-19T10:30:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T09:30:55","slug":"queen-to-bishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/9262\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen to Bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago a 17 year old Australian walked up behind a politician and planted an egg on the back of is head, filming as he did so with his phone. He promptly got <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/7NewsMelbourne\/status\/1106821696126746624\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">filled in<\/a>, firstly by the politician and then his mates. Due to the politician being right wing and having said nasty things about Muslims, and also because women these days think a 17 year old is a child, otherwise sensible people are leaping to the defence of Egg Boy. Here&#8217;s the founder of <em>Quillette<\/em>, for example:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I&#8217;m allergic to accusations of fascism. People call ME a fascist regularly. But this guy actually *is* a fascist &#8212; by the dictionary definition &#8212; and the kid didn&#8217;t intend to wound, merely humiliate. So I have no problem with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/eggboy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#eggboy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t0lp4pXCUC\">https:\/\/t.co\/t0lp4pXCUC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Claire Lehmann (@clairlemon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/clairlemon\/status\/1107895838364192768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nIf the new rule is we can make physical contact with people we don&#8217;t like if our intent is not to wound, merely humiliate, things are going to get interesting indeed. Where this will leave women I have no idea: I can think of a dozen ways a man can utterly, appallingly humiliate a woman if the only restriction on physical contact is that he must not wound her. Has anyone asked the #MeToo lot about this? Can men go around egging women or not?<\/p>\n<p>I suspect what we&#8217;re seeing here is Lehmann making sure she and her publication are positioned within the boundaries of polite society, edgy enough to upset the SJWs but not enough to cause the polite middle classes to start wringing their hands. Note the <em>I&#8217;m<\/em> not a fascist, but <em>he<\/em> is gambit. As <em>Quillette<\/em> grows in stature and comes under increasing attack from the hard-left, we&#8217;re going to see a lot more of this. These days if you&#8217;re anywhere to the right of Lenin and you want to keep being invited onto podcasts and TV shows, it&#8217;s important to signal you&#8217;re not an SS officer on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of signaling one&#8217;s morals, here&#8217;s Oliver Kamm:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The correct answer to this would be: \u201cIt\u2019s none of your business.\u201d And one day it will be seen &#8211; correctly &#8211; as a criticism rather than a compliment to be called a person of faith. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2vGrZwh5LX\">https:\/\/t.co\/2vGrZwh5LX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Oliver Kamm (@OliverKamm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OliverKamm\/status\/1107904138845790209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThe irony is this kind of moral pronouncement and surety of one\u2019s righteousness would be quite at home in the houses of any religion. As I&#8217;m fond of saying, religion never went away, it was just replaced with other dogmatic belief systems complete with preachers, true believers, heretics, witchfinder generals, and those constantly passing moral judgement on anyone who disagrees with them. What&#8217;s amusing is their practitioners consider themselves progressives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago a 17 year old Australian walked up behind a politician and planted an egg on the back of is head, filming as he did so with his phone. 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