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“It’s just a horse, a dumb, unfeeling creature, unaware of pain, unaware even of its own existence... When you whip a horse it doesn’t think “This is so painful & humiliating” because it is incapable of thought" - Brendan O& #39;Neill writing about Grand National horse deaths in 2013.
He wrote this crap in a Telegraph article: "So what if a few horses die in the Grand National? It is our pleasure, not their wellbeing, that is important".
Shamefully, he& #39;s rarely off national broadcast news & politics shows, & often appears in the Press. https://brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/what-is-brendan-oneill">https://brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/what-is...
Shamefully, he& #39;s rarely off national broadcast news & politics shows, & often appears in the Press. https://brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/what-is-brendan-oneill">https://brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/what-is...
Brendan O& #39;Neill has made a career out of championing & #39;free speech& #39; while abusing it to demonize anyone he disagrees with.
People should know what he is: a divisive contrarian who takes money from billionaires to help keep ordinary people angry & divided. https://leftfootforward.org/2013/05/dont-feed-the-troll-the-five-stupidest-brendan-oneill-articles/">https://leftfootforward.org/2013/05/d...
People should know what he is: a divisive contrarian who takes money from billionaires to help keep ordinary people angry & divided. https://leftfootforward.org/2013/05/dont-feed-the-troll-the-five-stupidest-brendan-oneill-articles/">https://leftfootforward.org/2013/05/d...
"Anti-Grand National campaigners, like all warriors for animal rights, imagine they are elevating animals, raising them up to a new level of respect. In truth, they are denigrating human beings. The refusal to say that a horse’s life is vastly inferior to a human being’s life,...
...which means that the death of a horse in a race is actually not that much of a big deal, is really a refusal to accept the specialness of humankind among living creatures. Indeed, pro-animal activism is often fueled more by disgust with humans than by love for animals".
While you& #39;re here, here& #39;s some more of the useful idiot #Spiked Editor& #39;s grotesque & divisive views, which he pukes out in order to keep the culture war burning & to keep the money coming in from US libertarian billionaires who want to jettison democracy & introduce kleptocracy:
On Northern Ireland:
O& #39;Neill was critical of the Good Friday Agreement. In 1988 he wrote: "The new peace deal is a disgrace... The biggest losers in all this are the republican movement... [W]hat exactly will the republican communities gain at the end of their 25-year struggle?"
![On Northern Ireland:O& #39;Neill was critical of the Good Friday Agreement. In 1988 he wrote: "The new peace deal is a disgrace... The biggest losers in all this are the republican movement... [W]hat exactly will the republican communities gain at the end of their 25-year struggle?"](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EypVL6jWUAEmsQ2.png "On Northern Ireland:O& #39;Neill was critical of the Good Friday Agreement. In 1988 he wrote: \"The new peace deal is a disgrace... The biggest losers in all this are the republican movement... [W]hat exactly will the republican communities gain at the end of their 25-year struggle?\"")
O& #39;Neill was critical of the Good Friday Agreement. In 1988 he wrote: "The new peace deal is a disgrace... The biggest losers in all this are the republican movement... [W]hat exactly will the republican communities gain at the end of their 25-year struggle?"
"Sinn Fein and the IRA have not just agreed to down arms. They have effectively signed away everything they once stood for, accepting that there will not be a united Ireland."
https://web.archive.org/web/20000308013016/www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM110/LM110_Ireland.html/">https://web.archive.org/web/20000...
https://web.archive.org/web/20000308013016/www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM110/LM110_Ireland.html/">https://web.archive.org/web/20000...
On Sexual abuse
In a 2012, writing in the Huffington Post, O& #39;Neill again caused outrage by arguing AGAINST victims of sexual abuse (by high-profile individuals like Sir Jimmy Savile) coming forward publicly, stating:
In a 2012, writing in the Huffington Post, O& #39;Neill again caused outrage by arguing AGAINST victims of sexual abuse (by high-profile individuals like Sir Jimmy Savile) coming forward publicly, stating:
"I think there is more virtue in keeping the abuse as a firm part of your past, rather than offering it up to a scandal-hungry media and abuse-obsessed society that are desperate for more episodes of perversion to pore over".
Grotesquely offensive idiocy. https://cherwell.org/2018/05/09/students-protest-brendan-oneills-oxford-visit/">https://cherwell.org/2018/05/0...
Grotesquely offensive idiocy. https://cherwell.org/2018/05/09/students-protest-brendan-oneills-oxford-visit/">https://cherwell.org/2018/05/0...
On Homosexuality:
He has characterized the increasing acceptance of homosexuality as “queer imperialism" in terms of LGBT rights being promoted to Russia by western activists. https://www.spiked-online.com/2014/02/10/gay-loving-westerners-vs-redneck-russia/">https://www.spiked-online.com/2014/02/1...
He has characterized the increasing acceptance of homosexuality as “queer imperialism" in terms of LGBT rights being promoted to Russia by western activists. https://www.spiked-online.com/2014/02/10/gay-loving-westerners-vs-redneck-russia/">https://www.spiked-online.com/2014/02/1...
He also claims homophobes are now treated the same way homosexuals used to be, & criticized the legalization of same-sex marriage in Australia, arguing that it has been "attended by authoritarianism wherever it’s been introduced".
https://leftfootforward.org/2020/07/spiked-accused-of-falling-for-pro-uae-disinformation-campaign/">https://leftfootforward.org/2020/07/s...
https://leftfootforward.org/2020/07/spiked-accused-of-falling-for-pro-uae-disinformation-campaign/">https://leftfootforward.org/2020/07/s...
On Racism:
He has pathetically & childishly claimed that efforts to combat racism in football are no more than "a class war" driven by "elites& #39; utter incomprehension of the mass passions that get aired at football matches".
Moronic.
https://web.archive.org/web/20131109005958/http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/11963">https://web.archive.org/web/20131...
He has pathetically & childishly claimed that efforts to combat racism in football are no more than "a class war" driven by "elites& #39; utter incomprehension of the mass passions that get aired at football matches".
Moronic.
https://web.archive.org/web/20131109005958/http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/11963">https://web.archive.org/web/20131...
Referring to high-profile & alleged cases of racial abuse: "these incidents & alleged incidents are not racism at all, in the true meaning of the word", due to the levels of passion, describing anti-racism efforts as "a pretty poisonous desire to police the... working classes".
In 2020, when football fans booed players taking a knee to protest racism, he predictably & patronisingly blamed the "divisive cult of identity politics" & a working class reaction against the "virtue-signalling nonsense of #BlackLivesMatter 
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He also divisively claims that "Islamophobia is a myth... the idea that there is a climate of Islamophobia, a culture of hot-headed, violent-minded hatred for Muslims, that could be awoken & unleashed by the next terror attack, is an invention." https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/after-finsbury-time-uks-right-wing-press-address-its-islamophobia">https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/a...
Environmentalism
O& #39;Neill is connected to the & #39;LM network& #39; - a superficially loose & informal network of individuals & organisations sharing a libertarian & anti-environmentalist ideology, & has opposed efforts to combat climate change through reductions in carbon emissions.
O& #39;Neill is connected to the & #39;LM network& #39; - a superficially loose & informal network of individuals & organisations sharing a libertarian & anti-environmentalist ideology, & has opposed efforts to combat climate change through reductions in carbon emissions.
He has said that the environmental movement - fighting to prevent a climate & environmental catastrophe - has become a "religious cult" “waging war on the working class”.
And he& #39;s been particularly vicious in attacking & demonizing Greta Thunberg... https://scramnews.com/right-wing-hysteria-climate-strike/">https://scramnews.com/right-win...
And he& #39;s been particularly vicious in attacking & demonizing Greta Thunberg... https://scramnews.com/right-wing-hysteria-climate-strike/">https://scramnews.com/right-win...
In his 2019 article "The Cult of Greta Thunberg", he pathetically describes her as a "millenarian weirdo", criticising what he describes as her "monotone voice" & the "look of apocalyptic dread in her eyes", saying there& #39;s something "chilling" about her. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/attacks-greta-thunberg-climate-deniers">https://www.teenvogue.com/story/att...
In 2018 George Monbiot exposed #Spiked magazine’s US funding arm for receiving $300,000 from the sinister Charles Koch Foundation, which threatens democracy by enabling extremely rich people & corporations to influence politics without showing their hands. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/07/us-billionaires-hard-right-britain-spiked-magazine-charles-david-koch-foundation">https://www.theguardian.com/commentis...
In September 2019, O& #39;Neill said on the @BBC& #39;s Politics Live that British people should be rioting about #Brexit delays: "I& #39;m amazed that there haven& #39;t been riots yet." When asked "Do you think there will be riots?", he responded: "I think there should be." https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/bbc-dismisses-600-complaints-brendan-oneill-spiked-brexit-leavers-riot-politics-live/">https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/bbc-dismi...
On #COVID19, O& #39;Neill entirely predictably argued that that “this pandemic has shown us what life would be like if environmentalists got their way” & condemned the “chilling” & “dangerous” “witch-hunting of those who criticise the response to coronavirus”. https://bylinetimes.com/2020/04/01/the-coronavirus-crisis-the-dangerous-crossover-between-climate-and-covid-denial/">https://bylinetimes.com/2020/04/0...
Just last year, in order to further fuel the fake culture war, he defended Julie Burchill& #39;s grotesquely insulting Islamophobic & defamatory remarks made against @AyoCaesar, for which she was forced to issue a full public apology & pay significant costs.
He& #39;s utterly shameless.
He& #39;s utterly shameless.
He can say whatever he likes - no matter how absurd or misleading.
He& #39;s simply part of a mass global industry dedicated to demonizing the Left & keeping them out of power by fueling a divisive fake culture war in order to protect the interests of the grotesquely rich & powerful.
He& #39;s simply part of a mass global industry dedicated to demonizing the Left & keeping them out of power by fueling a divisive fake culture war in order to protect the interests of the grotesquely rich & powerful.
