Louise O'Neill: 'I’d love to know when Piers Morgan has ever been quiet – we should be so lucky'

"If you shouted down a co-worker who was sharing their experience of racism, what would the reaction be? If a co-worker said they had suicidal thoughts and you said you didn’t believe it, how would your employer respond? If you insisted on using the wrong pronouns and misgendering a trans co-worker?"

Louise O'Neill, author. Photograph Moya Nolan

In Netflix’s mockumentary, Death to 2020, Lisa Kudrow plays a Republican spokesperson who claims that, “Online and in the media, conservative voices are being silenced.” 

She continues, “I said this before. I said it on my YouTube channel, I said it on Joe Rogan, on the Jordan Peterson Kayak podcast. I said it on Tucker Carlson. Twice actually. And I said it in my New York Times bestseller, ‘Conservative Voices Are Being Silenced’. It’s a point I have to make over and over because conservative voices are being silenced.”