{"id":39481,"date":"2017-07-23T03:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T07:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=39481"},"modified":"2017-07-22T11:53:17","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T15:53:17","slug":"requiem-for-an-sjw-heavyweight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/07\/23\/requiem-for-an-sjw-heavyweight\/","title":{"rendered":"Requiem for an SJW heavyweight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delingpoleworld.com\/2017\/07\/22\/rip-godfrey-elfwick-murdered-by-twitter-for-being-too-woke\/\" target=\"_blank\">James Delingpole<\/a> on the Twitter phenomenon Godfrey Elfwick:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Linda Sarsour\/Sally Kohn\/Graham Linehan\/Caroline Criado Perez\/Gary Lineker\/Diane Abbot\/someone from the <em>Guardian<\/em>\/a guy from CNN\/ISIS has said something really hateful, stupid, and wrong on Twitter. Again.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the day, this would have been a cause for celebration, not dismay. Why? Because within milliseconds of their fatuous utterance tainting the ether with its embittered, warped, politically correct insanity it would have been endorsed \u2013 and simultaneously destroyed \u2013 by the mighty Godfrey Elfwick.<\/p>\n<p>Godfrey Elfwick was the funniest and best thing on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p><a data-id=\"39482\" href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Godfrey-Elfwick.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Godfrey-Elfwick.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"853\" height=\"726\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Godfrey-Elfwick.jpg 853w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Godfrey-Elfwick-150x128.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Godfrey-Elfwick-480x409.jpg 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Godfrey-Elfwick-768x654.jpg 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Godfrey-Elfwick-752x640.jpg 752w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To have your tweet singled out for praise by Godfrey was the kiss of death. It meant that you were a humorless, self-righteous, deluded, smug, sanctimonious, insufferable Social Justice Warrior. Just like Godfrey purported to be.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why, of course, Twitter had to silence him. Sure, the official reason given for Godfrey\u2019s permanent ban was because he had broken Twitter\u2019s terms of service \u2013 apparently having upset a millionaire potato chip salesman called Gary Lineker.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Delingpole on the Twitter phenomenon Godfrey Elfwick: Linda Sarsour\/Sally Kohn\/Graham Linehan\/Caroline Criado Perez\/Gary Lineker\/Diane Abbot\/someone from the Guardian\/a guy from CNN\/ISIS has said something really hateful, stupid, and wrong on Twitter. Again. Back in the day, this would have been a cause for celebration, not dismay. Why? Because within milliseconds of their fatuous utterance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,57,28,53],"tags":[463,1020,997,593,310],"class_list":["post-39481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-humour","category-media","category-politics","tag-parody","tag-progressives","tag-socialjustice","tag-socialmedia","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-agN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39481"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39485,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39481\/revisions\/39485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}