"Sadly, he still has an ultra-loyal phalanx of fans, for whom the word "thickness" certainly does not apply to their skins, who insist that the "real bigots" are Morrissey's critics demonstrating their "narrow-mindedness". Like their idol, they view of all of this as random persecution, in which they take a simple, indignant pleasure."
This is what seems to be playing out here. No one is really discussing the points made in the article.
"Dodwell states that his high regard for Anne Marie Waters stems primarily from her veganism and the anti-Islam stance as a properly liberal response to the cruelty of Halal slaughter. "Are we really so uncomfortable with being provoked into thinking? Are we against even having the debate? So much so that we would rather silence or harass alternative voices?" We have it in for Morrissey because he is challenging our complacent, left wing views, discomfiting us with his daring proposition that we should embrace the far right; we sheep on the anti-Morrissey bandwagon dare not cross intellectual swords with him because we know he would best us with his maverick wit.
But it's Morrissey himself who is wilfully, coyly selective about exposing himself to debate; he recently consented, for example, to be interviewed by his own nephew, opining that "everyone ultimately prefers their own race."
And this is also true. Morrissey doesn't really seem to want debate or diversity of opinion. He wants to be able to make random statements without being challenged. What he says is often not very well thought out or is ambiguous so that Ketamine Sun can remind us that "we can't really know" what he is saying.
I think it's actually a pretty good article but of course they need a hook so they go for "drop your Morrissey loving friends." I don't see how that can offend you if you're not offended by "it's no worse than what happens at KFC every day" in response to a massacre of students.
And everyone who has agreed with anything the article says has been downvoted to the point their post is hidden. Where is the love for free speech?
