Perhaps by “which became notorious for its anti-PC stance and its defences of hate speech” he means “notorious for being so anti-PC that it defended hate speech”? I think that’s pretty accurate. (Bond’s weak tea 2011 link doesn’t defend hate speech, but argues that it is often a false label.)
I’d take the author’s “anti-PC” to mean something like “seeing ‘political correctness’ everywhere, and hating it.”
For instance, there are folks who respond to requests for civil and respectful behavior on certain subjects — delivered with no force but the force of persuasion — as if those requests were threats of violence, and as if resistance to those requests were the act of a bold fighter for freedom of speech.
Perhaps by “which became notorious for its anti-PC stance and its defences of hate speech” he means “notorious for being so anti-PC that it defended hate speech”? I think that’s pretty accurate. (Bond’s weak tea 2011 link doesn’t defend hate speech, but argues that it is often a false label.)
I’d take the author’s “anti-PC” to mean something like “seeing ‘political correctness’ everywhere, and hating it.”
For instance, there are folks who respond to requests for civil and respectful behavior on certain subjects — delivered with no force but the force of persuasion — as if those requests were threats of violence, and as if resistance to those requests were the act of a bold fighter for freedom of speech.