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Michel Houellebecq tried to make it impossible to publish the sexual movie that we wholeheartedly agreed on filming by using lawfare and trying to appeal to the small-minded presumptions of the judicial class: the female judges went along with his ‘fear’ that showing the natural act of sex between an old famous man and his literary groupie could be disproportionally damaging to his reputation. Now the same presumptions are being used against him. The idea that you can’t freely opine on changing demographics and the influence this has on western life, and that you should always consider not being racist first, comes from the same pedestrian perspective, a perspective fearful of people expressing themselves in a way that a civil servant never would. Maybe I should be glad, since he’s getting a taste of his own medicine, but I’m not. I want to live in a free world where art and expression are not state-censored in this deranged way, and where right wing people don’t have to be paranoid all the time. I’m genuinely scared of the path Europe is going down