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You know that time Toby Young set up a Uni Society to defend free speech...

Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2021 1:36 pm
by Little waster
... it turned out exactly how you would expect.

There really should be some sort of pithy phrase to sum up the process of insisting that all stated opinions correctly comply with some accepted political position.

Re: You know that time Toby Young set up a Uni Society to defend free speech...

Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2021 1:47 pm
by FlammableFlower
Was reading that this morning. He is a complete arse.

Re: You know that time Toby Young set up a Uni Society to defend free speech...

Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2021 2:19 pm
by bjn
FlammableFlower wrote:
Sat Jan 09, 2021 1:47 pm
Was reading that this morning. He is a complete arse.
To quote a lovely friend of mine who actually knows him, “Toby Young? He’s a tw.t!”

Re: You know that time Toby Young set up a Uni Society to defend free speech...

Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2021 9:51 am
by Vertigowooyay
bjn wrote:
Sat Jan 09, 2021 2:19 pm
FlammableFlower wrote:
Sat Jan 09, 2021 1:47 pm
Was reading that this morning. He is a complete arse.
To quote a lovely friend of mine who actually knows him, “Toby Young? He’s a tw.t!”
Yup. He is. We had him on a show I worked on many years ago (when his and Burchill's shitrag Modern Review was being published) and he was simply a deeply unpleasant, arrogant, entitled tw.t.

Re: You know that time Toby Young set up a Uni Society to defend free speech...

Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2021 12:23 pm
by Bird on a Fire
Even the logo they've managed to come up with looks super low-rent fash.

Re: You know that time Toby Young set up a Uni Society to defend free speech...

Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2021 12:27 pm
by tenchboy
Bird on a Fire wrote:
Mon Jan 11, 2021 12:23 pm
Even the logo they've managed to come up with looks super low-rent fash.
TRB.

Re: You know that time Toby Young set up a Uni Society to defend free speech...

Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2021 12:31 pm
by tenchboy
TRB... he said jokingly.
Turns out it's not far off a steal

Re: You know that time Toby Young set up a Uni Society to defend free speech...

Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2021 8:42 pm
by FlammableFlower

Re: You know that time Toby Young set up a Uni Society to defend free speech...

Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2021 7:49 pm
by Little waster
Toby has deleted all his tweets from 2020
There is something very 2020 about such a supposed staunch defender of free speech self-censoring himself in a desparately futile attempt to stop people reading all the f.ck-witted things he said.

He really is sh.t at this.

Re: You know that time Toby Young set up a Uni Society to defend free speech...

Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2021 8:04 pm
by Gfamily
Little waster wrote:
Fri Jan 15, 2021 7:49 pm
Toby has deleted all his tweets from 2020
There is something very 2020 about such a supposed staunch defender of free speech self-censoring himself in a desparately futile attempt to stop people reading all the f.ck-witted things he said.

He really is sh.t at this.
Like the people who block critics, he's silencing himself, one tweet at a time.

Re: You know that time Toby Young set up a Uni Society to defend free speech...

Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2021 11:32 pm
by plodder
What a f.cking c.nt, honestly. The f.cking state of it.

Re: You know that time Toby Young set up a Uni Society to defend free speech...

Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2021 11:55 pm
by jimbob
Little waster wrote:
Fri Jan 15, 2021 7:49 pm
Toby has deleted all his tweets from 2020
There is something very 2020 about such a supposed staunch defender of free speech self-censoring himself in a desparately futile attempt to stop people reading all the f.ck-witted things he said.

He really is sh.t at this.
https://mobile.twitter.com/parkinjim/st ... 47/photo/1

Re: You know that time Toby Young set up a Uni Society to defend free speech...

Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2021 12:17 am
by Little waster
jimbob wrote:
Fri Jan 15, 2021 11:55 pm
Little waster wrote:
Fri Jan 15, 2021 7:49 pm
Toby has deleted all his tweets from 2020
There is something very 2020 about such a supposed staunch defender of free speech self-censoring himself in a desparately futile attempt to stop people reading all the f.ck-witted things he said.

He really is sh.t at this.
https://mobile.twitter.com/parkinjim/st ... 47/photo/1
Ah but:-
An utter f.ck-knuckle wrote:Yes, lockdown sceptics have got some things wrong, but I think we've provided an important counterweight to the largely one-sided reporting of the broadcast media, particularly the BBC.
In much the same way that in the event of a fire in a crowded building it is vitally important to have the counterweight of someone going around saying:-

"stay put the fire is a hoax, the alarms are just a drill ignore them, there's no evidence fire-extinguishers work so don't use them, doesn't this building catch fire every year, that's not a burn it's a rash, do you know we are all probably immune to fire by now, I'm merely exercising my god-given liberty to padlock my bike across fire escape doors, firemen are all in the pay of Big Hose, water is a liquid and puts out fires, petrol is a liquid which looks like water, therefore my retired engineer friend thinks scientifically pouring petrol on the flames will put them out, how dare you tell me to shut up, you're infringing my free speech, if you open your mouth one more time I'll sue you!"

TBF those 86k dead Brits weren't going to kill themselves.