Posted on 02/01/2016 4:56:43 AM PST by servo1969
On January 22, the era of social justice ascendancy on the web came to a battered, exhausted halt. Gregory Alan Elliott, a Toronto artist who was dragged through the Canadian criminal justice system for the “crime†of disagreeing with feminists on Twitter, was declared innocent.
His acquittal marked the climax of nearly two years of setbacks for social justice warriors on the web, whose ability to quash dissent and ruin their opponents once seemed unchallengeable. Twitter, once dominated by the activists of the regressive left, rang out in celebration at the victory for free speech.
Elliott’s trial stretched from the darkest days of SJW ascendancy on social media to the rise of the cultural libertarians. For feminists and the regressive left, it represented a major goal, which has for the moment been placed beyond their reach: the goal of redefining political disagreement as criminal harassment.
In their case against Elliott, feminist activists Stephanie Guthrie and Heather Reilly claimed that Elliott, who challenged them on a number of issues on Twitter, made them feel “unsafe.†It seems nonsensical now, but the fact that Elliott was arrested and put on trial (for three years!) is a testament to how close the regressive left were to achieving their dystopian objective.
Despite their loss, it would be foolish to pretend that the social justice warriors did no damage. Marauding armies may eventually be defeated, but they still leave a trail of destruction in their wake. Elliott was neither the first, nor the only person that social justice warriors tried to punish for political opinions or offhand remarks.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
I’m surprised and a little disappointed that Breitbart didn’t mention Mark Steyn’s case with the Human Rights Commission.
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-sheffield/2008/06/28/mark-steyn-cleared-human-rights-panel
Another hard fought battle with the regressive Left, and Mark certainly has his scars from that event.
Yeah, it’s SOP for lefties to blurt out what they think and if you disagree, you’re a bully, or you’re making them upset, or it’s “verbal violence,” or whatever. Liberals truly expect to be on stage lecturing the rest of us while we sit in obedient silence, always.
Strange metaphor...”Stalingrad of free speech”?
A very costly victory. The Russians barely survived the battle for Stalingrad. The Germans did not survive it.
Thanks, I understand - or have a certain perception of, not having been there myself - what Stalingrad stands for. I just don’t see the application here, but perhaps that’s just me.
We celebrate a victory now, while the left mass produces in public schools yet another generation even farther off the deep end.
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