Julien Blanc boasts about shoving Asian women\u2019s faces into his crotch in Japan:\u00a0\u201cYou can do what you want. I\u2019m just romping through the streets, just grabbing girls\u2019 heads, just like, head, pfft on the dick.\u201d<\/p>\n
The dating expert\u00a0has just been denied permission to enter the UK, where he planned to run a series of seminars sharing his \u201cseduction\u201d techniques. For some, Blanc\u2019s case is a “free speech issue” and\u00a0the government has no business limiting him.<\/p>\n
Blanc, 25, uses the hashtag #ChokingGirlsAroundTheWorld on social media,\u00a0and tours the world giving seminars and $2,000 bootcamps. He was due to arrive in Britain in February for a series of events.<\/p>\n
But there is no requirement to tolerate speech that unambiguously directs violence, and thus no “free speech” defence for Blanc.<\/p>\n
This month Blanc was also forced to cut short an Australian tour after widespread protests led to his visa being cancelled. The Australian immigration minister, Scott Morrison, said his government\u2019s decision was in reaction to justified public outrage.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis guy wasn\u2019t putting forward political ideas. He was putting forward abuse that was derogatory to women and those values are abhorred in this country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Blanc has\u00a0already described himself as “the most hated man in the world”. He\u00a0could be banned from entering Ireland too, the Department of Justice confirmed.<\/p>\n
Thousands of people have signed petitions in Australia, Germany, South Korea, Japan, Canada, the UK and Brazil to ban Blanc and his seminars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Julien Blanc boasts about shoving Asian women\u2019s faces into his crotch in Japan:\u00a0\u201cYou can do what you want. I\u2019m just romping through the streets, just grabbing girls\u2019 heads, just like, head, pfft on the dick.\u201d The dating expert\u00a0has just been denied permission to enter the UK, where he planned to run a series of seminars … Continue reading “‘Dating expert’ discovers the limits of free speech”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,123],"tags":[10592,10591,36,140],"class_list":["post-16960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-dating-guru","tag-julien-blanc","tag-rape","tag-violence"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16961,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16960\/revisions\/16961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}