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He argued against women having the right to be addressed by a gender inclusive pronoun in the 80s fell off the map and is now doing the same thing with minority and trans-people. Currently he is touted as a champion of freespeech while he is actively sueing a public university for defamation (millions).



He's now apparently inspiring pro-segregation arguments in Saudi Arabia: https://twitter.com/iyad_elbaghdadi/status/10053027139854008...

His followers have absorbed some pretty terrible ideas from him. This was a comment about the recent decriminalization of homosexuality in India: https://i.imgur.com/W80VytS.png


Doesn’t defamation specifically require false statements represented at truths? I’m not sure free speech is meant to allow for that as well (negative truths, represented as truths, are fine though)


He calls people "postmodern marxist's" which is rather contradictory.




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