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Free Speech is dying across Europe and nowhere is that more evident in this story!
It concerns a Franco-Swiss writer called Alain Soral who has been sent to prison in Switzerland for calling a journalist Catherine Macherel a “fat lesbian”!
Yes, that’s right!
Soral had initially been convicted of defamation in 2022, and received a day’s fine. However, the public prosecutor’s office lodged an appeal and won the case at the end of last week. The sentence handed down by the Swiss cantonal court amounts to 60 days’ imprisonment. Soral had posted a video online in which he called the journalist a “fat lesbian” and a “queer activist”, implying that the latter term meant “degenerate”
Soral himself acknowledged that he had made “somewhat virulent comments” but insisted he was “not a militant homophobe, as the public prosecutor would have us believe
Predictably LGBTQ associations were delighted with the outcome.
“We welcome a strong signal that not everything is allowed in Switzerland, that there are limits to hatred. We mustn’t forget that this kind of comment has direct and worrying consequences for the LGBTIQ community.”
Pink Cross (sighs) along with the Swiss lesbian organisation, Vogay and Lilith, also noted in a joint press release that the ruling was “a crucial step in the application of the article of the penal code” punishing homophobia.
There is so much WRONG with this judgement.
For starters, it ignores the suggestion that Macherel herself identifies as part of the LGBTQ+ community and is likely a lesbian, given her activism.
It also looks like she might benefit from losing a few pounds.
So “fat lesbian” does not seem too far off the mark!
Yes, calling her that is a little ungallant and there may have been a better way to couch his criticism but to be accused and convicted of “hate crime” for doing so is ridiculous! If someone IS a fat and lesbian, then calling them a fat lesbian is a statement of fact, not an opinion. So where is the crime?
He also called her a “queer activist” but it seems that she advocated for LGBTQ+ narratives so again, where lies the crime?
As for the suggestion that he implied lesbianism is “degenerate”, isn’t that in line with the teaching of many Religions?
It’s not a coincidence that the activist groups want to silence anyone who challenges them. Instead of engaging in debate and trying to win their argument, they just want to demonise their opponents and even throw them in prison.
It is NOT “homophobic” to suggest that someone who is fat, lesbian and arguing for LGBTQ+ causes is a fat lesbian queer activist! It is factual. I have no idea what sort of clown judge went with the prosecution argument!
One of my followers over on X contacted me to say that though she too was a fat lesbian, she agreed that this sentence was outrageous.
Just to finish – Catherine Macherel is a fat lesbian.
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