Thread by @clim8resistance

Of the two smear websites that have published 'profiles' of me, one was founded by a convicted money-launderer & online gambling racketeer, and the other is an anti-Semite at the centre of an academic scandal caused by him using his academic status to further his witch-hunting.

Here's the first. Desmog.

leftexposed.org/2016/08/desmog…

Here's an article on the second, David Miller who set up the Powerbase/Spin Profiles projects, funded by the likes of the Goldsmith family and supported by George Monbiot and Caroline Lucas. capx.co/david-millers-…

Both of these smear sites attempt to 'link' me to billionaire-funded conspiracies and "far-right" political movements.

Oh, the irony.

Both sites have been used in attempts to shut me down, to destroy my personal and working relationships and to have me shut out of debate.

Neither site has contacted me to confirm their lies or to offer any right of reply.

Neither site has addressed any argument I've made.

Now David Miller is at the centre of what he has tried to inflict on many others -- a campaign to have him kicked out of the university he works at.

I'm 100% pro free-speech. But here's my reaction:

Meh.

He has made no commitment to free speech. He has made no attempt to elevate the debates he brings only smears to. He has given no thought to those he trashes.

The question as to whether or not he deserves our energies is for the birds.

It's worth remembering that a commitment to free speech and democracy and their concomitant principles is what such smearers have used to smear people as 'far right' and worse.

Some have pointed out that free speech means nothing if it doesn't mean free speech for your enemies, too. They have half a point.

I would quite happily meet my enemies in debate, to allow democracy to decide who is right.

My enemies don't believe in debate and democracy.

The only exception to that -- and it's a bizarre exception, too -- is XR founder Roger Hallam. I think he's wrong, and he has misconceived democracy (and, I think his own comrades' impulses, too). But even Roger found himself implicated in antisemitism!

Now "philanthropic" foundations like @jrct_uk, the Goldsmiths, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, are implicated in racist campaigns.

That's because they put smear and slander before debate and democracy.

Let's call it 'reversion to type'.

spinwatch.org/index.php/abou…

Are we to believe that the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust didn't care to look at what its money was being used for?

Or did it think that it was a good thing that its money was being used against democracy, and to harass Jews?

@jrct_uk -- what is your answer?

Take your time, @jrct_uk... This is your right of reply -- not a opportunity your beneficiaries gave to the people their smear.