The Dumbest Version of Free Speech Activism
A new “Free Speech Union” established by right-wing trolls in Britain is just the latest self-promotion gambit by those who insist on their inalienable right to spew hate while remaining exempt from criticism.

The Right in the United Kingdom has finally established a union of their own — fighting not for better conditions in the workplace but, instead, the right to be racist, sexist, and homophobic without any response.
To herald the New Year, Dominic Cummings wrote a blog post calling for “weirdos and misfits with odd skills” to join him at10 Downing Street, where he serves as chief special adviser to prime minister Boris Johnson. His plan, he explained, was to attract people outside of the traditional Oxford-Cambridge elite to solve problems such as the “selection, education and training of people for high performance,” among other problems. His first such “weirdo,” Andrew Sabisky, lasted very shortly at Number 10, after his comments were unearthed on the subjects of the purported lower IQs of black people, a penchant for incest porn, and his encouragement of people on government benefits to have fewer children to breed out “work resistance.”
Enter professional troll Toby Young, son of Labour peer Michael Young, who coined the (originally satirical) term “meritocracy” in the 1950s. Young has his own history of advocating eugenics, and appears to have taken his father’s term literally, claiming he and others are examples of meritocracy, despite failing to get the grades to enter Cambridge and being admitted purely because his father phoned the university to demand he be given a place.