Feminist social justice warrior Bahar Mustafa has been arrested for cyberviolence. While many have come out in support of Mustafa, neither Anita Sarkeesian or Zoe Quinn — the world’s leading experts on the matter — have seen fit to comment.

According to The Guardian, Bahar Mustafa, a student diversity officer from London has been charged by police for sending a threatening communication. The 28-year-old allegedly tweeted under the hashtag #killallwhitemen. She has also been accused of racism for asking cisgender white men to refrain from attending a students’ union meeting. The charges have stirred controversy precisely because of the supreme irony of the whole ordeal: Mustafa, a virulent anti-racist and feminist, has been an open enemy of freedom of speech in favor of policing expression to provide “safe” spaces. The very policies she’s advocated have rendounded on her own head.

Since the news of her arrest, many have tweeted support for Mustafa under the hashtag #IStandWithBaharMustafa. What is strange is that most of the feminist’s supporters disagree with almost everything she stands for. Prominent right-wing journalist Milo Yiannapoulos was quick to stand with Mustafa, with a clear statement that she should never have been arrested. Indeed, nearly all of the tweets under the hashtag come from those who have been the most critical of social justice warrior censorship: cultural libertarians, antifeminists, and GamerGate supporters. Those from Mustafa’s own camp have not been so outspoken in their support.

Anita Sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn are two people who should be speaking out about this story. They just issued a world-wide wake up call on the seriousness of this issue: in the past weeks the two were part of the widely-criticized UN Report on Cyberviolence. The report goes so far as to claim that cyberviolence is just as damaging as physical violence. To be fair, the report did contain quite a bit of comedy, especially in the arena of citations.

UPDATE: The report “has been withdrawn pending revision by the U.N. Broadband Commission, the body that published it.”

So far, these leading experts on cyberviolence have yet to utter a word regarding this notable example of tweetcrime. To be fair, Zoe has been quite busy Googling her name to find fanfiction about herself. Of course, she had to spend the entire day tweeting about it:

I suppose one must keep one’s priorities straight.

Zoe and Anita are in a quandary. Mustafa’s arrest for cyberviolence should be a win for them, but its not because she’s one of their own. Anything they say about this report will reveal the dangerous contradictions inherent in their cult-of-victimhood ideology.

If Zoe and Anita side with Mustafa, they will be admitting that cyberviolence is in fact not equivalent to physical violence. (If it were, then Mustafa should certainly be jailed for her claims.) At this point, supporting Mustafa is too costly for these SJWs, who must at all costs stand by their assertion that tweets and texts can be supremely and deeply damaging. To do otherwise would endanger their go-to strategy of playing the victim.

On the other hand, if they don’t stand with Mustafa, they will have rejected one of their own: a vituperative social justice warrior who wishes to silence any speech she deems “unsafe.” Furthermore, they will likely be in danger themselves, as Mustafa’s agenda of policing speech in the name of social justice is identical to that which Zoe and Anita have repeatedly advocated.

But we all know that Zoe and Anita are not truly concerned with cyberviolence, especially when it actually has real-world consequences as in Mustafa’s case. And they’re especially unconcerned when it doesn’t fit their narrative of white cisgender males hating the oppressed. Instead, they’re occupied with building their internet following and filling up their Patreon accounts.

So my guess is that the world’s leading cyberviolence “experts” will remain entirely silent on this prominent example of tweetcrime — only weeks after calling for a “world-wide wake up call” on the matter. I guess it wasn’t so pressing after all.