Will Self: freedom of speech a ‘fetish’ in wake of Paris attacks - “Je Suis Charlie”

By Joe Sandler Clarke. Freedom of speech has become a “sexual fetish” in the West in light of the Charlie Hebdo terror atrocity, according to academic and writer Will Self.
The professor of contemporary thought at Brunel University London told an audience at Soas, University of London, that he had been concerned by the response to the events in Paris, where millions of people took to the streets chanting the slogan “Je Suis Charlie” in solidarity with the journalists who were killed last week. More...