{"id":39994,"date":"2017-09-01T03:00:48","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T07:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=39994"},"modified":"2019-07-02T09:21:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T13:21:49","slug":"antifa-looks-increasingly-like-the-militant-wing-of-safe-space-fanaticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/09\/01\/antifa-looks-increasingly-like-the-militant-wing-of-safe-space-fanaticism\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Antifa looks increasingly like the militant wing of Safe Space fanaticism&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/brendan.oneill.79\/posts\/1462260957197326\" target=\"_blank\">Brendan O&#8217;Neill<\/a> posting to <em>Facebook<\/em> a few days back:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>People are shocked by images of antifa activists beating up normal, peaceful right-wing protesters in Berkeley or physically shoving right-wing people off Boston Common. Why? This is what happens when you tell an entire generation that other people&#8217;s ideas are dangerous, that their speech is toxic, that their words can wound you and traumatise you: you invite that generation to shut people down, to use any means necessary to ensure &#8220;dangerous&#8221; ideas are not expressed and do not cause injury to people&#8217;s self-esteem or sense of safety. We are starting to see what happens when speech is talked about as a form of violence: it green-lights actual violence against certain forms of speech. If speech is violence, shouldn&#8217;t it be met with violence? Antifa looks increasingly like the militant wing of Safe Space fanaticism, the bastard offspring of a culture that elevates mental safety over intellectual liberty, and people&#8217;s feelings over public freedom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brendan O&#8217;Neill posting to Facebook a few days back: People are shocked by images of antifa activists beating up normal, peaceful right-wing protesters in Berkeley or physically shoving right-wing people off Boston Common. Why? This is what happens when you tell an entire generation that other people&#8217;s ideas are dangerous, that their speech is toxic, [&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":[53,13],"tags":[1295,900,457,212,186,238,1020,720],"class_list":["post-39994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-usa","tag-antifa","tag-boston","tag-fascism","tag-freedomofassembly","tag-freedomofspeech","tag-offensensitivity","tag-progressives","tag-protest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-ap4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39994","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=39994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39995,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39994\/revisions\/39995"}],"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=39994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}