[Peace-discuss] Interrogating Allan Axelrod’s “Reign of Terror”

[Robert Naiman]

Let me make sure that I have this straight, as Peter Falk used to say.



According to Nina’s “Open Letter to the University of Illinois,” [
http://blog.ninapaley.com/2019/02/28/open-letter-to-the-university-of-illinois/]
this is the alleged “crime of hate speech” for which she is being
persecuted by Allan Axelrod and his co-conspirators:



*My crime was, months earlier, sharing on Facebook the following lyric: “If
a person has a penis he’s a man.” At various times I have also shared such
contentious views as, “women don’t have penises,” “sex is not gender,”
“woman means adult human female,” and “everyone is free to identify however
they wish, but not to force me to identify them the same way.” Nonetheless,
“If a person has a penis he’s a man” is continually quoted as my greatest
hit of so-called ‘hate speech.’ It is also a fact.*



According to Allan Axelrod and his co-conspirators, this alleged crime of
hate speech was *so grave *that right-thinking people are morally required
to support and participate in the blacklisting of Nina’s movie in
Champaign-Urbana, *even though the movie has nothing to do with the
question of whether “a person with a penis is a man.”*



Here is the webpage for Nina’s new movie:



SEDER-MASOCHISM

A new animated feature from the creator of Sita Sings the Blues

http://sedermasochism.com



If you go to the web site for the movie and use your browser to search for
the word “penis,” you can’t find it. You can’t find the word “penis” on the
web site for the movie, because it’s not there. *There is no “penis” on the
web page for the movie.*



Yet, according to Allan Axelrod and his co-conspirators, Nina’s alleged
crime of hate speech was *so grave *that right-thinking people are morally
required to support and participate in the blacklisting of Nina’s movie in
Champaign-Urbana, *even though the movie has nothing to do with the
question of whether “a person with a penis is a man.”*



Is this “the new normal” for Allan Axelrod and his co-conspirators?


Which thought criminal will they go after next?
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