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Stanford University, where the administration worked actively to engineer a student walkout when I spoke there in 2017, is on the warpath against the freedom of speech these days. In April, Barack Obama spoke there and called for restrictions on speech to combat “disinformation.” On Wednesday, the far-Left mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, made his own appearance at Stanford, where he claimed that “the worst thing globalization has brought to social media is the proliferation of hate speech.” What’s hate speech? Anything Obama, Khan and their allies dislike. And the person they dislike most in the world is Donald Trump; Khan is worried about what could happen if Elon Musk allows Trump to return to Twitter.
The UK’s Guardian, which makes Lavrenti Beria look like a libertarian, said that at Stanford, Khan “called on tech companies to rein in hate speech, speaking about his own experience of abuse amplified by one of the most powerful figures on social media.” Khan’s alleged abuser was, of course, Trump, “who frequently used the mayor as an online punching bag, calling Khan ‘a stone-cold loser’ and ‘very dumb.’” Khan charged that Trump’s insults had actively endangered him: “Khan, whose family are from Pakistan, said the amount of racial abuse he received on social media increased by 2,000% under Trump and required him to receive police protection.”
There’s an obvious cause-and-effect problem here. Even if Khan’s claims about the amount of “racial abuse” he received are true, unless Trump tweeted, “Hey, go and send your own insult to London’s mayor!” (he didn’t) there is no necessary connection between that abuse and Trump’s criticism. This remains true despite the fact that Khan also claims that once Trump was banned from Twitter, the clouds dispersed, the birds started singing, the sun began to shine, and his detractors went away: “Khan emphasized the power that companies have to act, saying that in the year after Twitter banned Trump over his role in inciting the attack at the US Capitol, he received ‘the least racial abuse of any time over five years’. Abuse directed at Khan declined by 75% in 2020, the year Trump lost the election, and a further 40% in 2021 after the ban from Twitter, according to statistics from London’s city hall.”
Kids, Khan is engaging in what is known as the fallacy of post hoc ergo propter hoc: “after this, therefore caused by this.” Just because one event follows another event doesn’t mean that the first caused the second, as the change could have been caused by a variety of other factors. Any connection has to be established by more evidence than just the fact that one thing followed the other.
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Fitna says
Knife crimes skyrocketed under this midget’s watch. He didn’t care because I will bet the perps were largely Muslims and the victims white westerners.
Meanwhile he deployed the police force to go after people who say mean things about Islam and Muslims online.
It’s just crazy how we allow Muslims to get power and free reign when they have it. Where are the overseers? Granted some politicians did chew him out for his terrible performance, but he’s still there like a mole on someone’s backside.
If Muslims are controlling elections then Britain better wake the hell up and stop them, because they will use democracy to destroy democracy.
They even bragged about getting more Muslim MP’s in Parliament to turn the UK into a Sharia state from within.
Meanwhile they’re terrified of being called racist. I guess when Muslims are cutting their heads off, they can claim they weren’t ever racist and die with a clear conscience.
Conversely they’re coming down like a ton of bricks on actual heroes like Tommy Robinson who are sounding the alarm on the threat of Islam. So basically the message is, don’t fight back, let the Muslims win, great plan, stupid UK politicians.
James Lincoln says
Fitna says,
“…he’s still there like a mole on someone’s backside.”
Some moles are benign, some are malignant.
This one is malignant…
Fitna says
Agreed James….he needs removal.
peter says
I recollect Enoch Powell’s saying” No patriot these days can escape the adjective of racist” That probably accounts for a lot of people not calling spade a spade.
Michael says
The verve and charisma of a metrognome.
notnolib says
President Trump should tweet:
“Breathing is good. Every American should breathe every day”.
The results would be glorious!!
gravenimage says
Some people would still be enraged…
JCA Reid says
Obnoxious, hypocritical, little sh*t!
E T says
The tiny little mayor is a member of the World Economic Forum. Rarely will love this next statement – – London Mayor Sadie Khan is set to become the new chair of the C40 Cities, a global network of almost 100 cities, megacities committed to addressing climate change. There will be a handover ceremony with US mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti. Are the plans still in place? Nothing will surprise me now, too many people have been asleep for too long.
gravenimage says
Appalling, E T–I had not heard about this:
“London Mayor Sadiq Khan to succeed Mayor of LA as global chair of C40 Cities”
https://www.c40.org/news/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-to-succeed-mayor-of-la-as-global-chair-of-c40-cities/
No one seems to care that he is overlooking the destruction of London.
Melc says
Khan is not overlooking. Supervising and assisting the destruction of London and beyond. He failed with Farakhan but succeeding with Boris.