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Robbie Coltrane has died.
I’m sure all of those on The Right Side Of History™ will be keen to share their condolences while his friends and family are grieving.
Oh, wait…
Activists vandalise Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers at the National Gallery.
The vandalism or destruction of art is always an authoritarian act.
But more than that - it represents a repudiation of civilisation and the achievements of humanity.
Unable to win an argument against your political opponents? Just use one of these handy phrases instead:
▪️”Who funds you?”
▪️”Explain this 8-year-old tweet”
▪️”So what you’re saying is... [insert straw man]”
▪️”Why are you in this photo with a person I don’t like?”
▪️”Nazi”
For some, these flags represent diversity and inclusion.
But for many, they symbolise an ideological movement that is hostile to gay people and women’s rights, opposes free speech, legitimises violence and bullying, and hounds people out of their jobs if they fail to conform.
Our replacement venue for Comedy Unleashed at the Edinburgh fringe has now also cancelled on us.
So
@Glinner
and the other acts will do the gig on a small stage outside the Scottish parliament at Holyrood at 7:30pm
This show is happening, whether these activists approve or not.
Our Comedy Unleashed gig at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe has been CANCELLED by our venue following online pressure.
It is astonishing that a comedy night at the largest arts festival in the world should be prevented from going ahead, simply because activists are offended.
The
The NHS says it intends to ban puberty blockers outside of the use of clinical trials and to enhance regulation of treatment for gender dysphoria in children.
A summary of
@LozzaFox
’s main points:
We should be united in condemning racism
We should reserve the term “racist” for racists
The concept of white privilege is flawed/unhelpful
Most people are sick of identity politics
Even if you disagree, how is any of this controversial?
Equity’s minority ethnic members committee (
@EquityMEM
) has called on fellow actors to “unequivocally denounce” Laurence Fox for comments he made during an appearance on BBC1's Question Time
If you smear the working class & elderly as racist & stupid, you’re a bigot.
If you see fascism everywhere in one of the most tolerant countries, you’re a fantasist.
If you have contempt for democracy, you’re an elitist.
Above all, you’re the reason the left continues to lose.
The JK Rowling controversy has exposed one of the most chilling aspects of the woke ideology: the sheer certainty of its adherents.
It never occurs to these people that they might be wrong. That’s why they refuse to debate.
This is zealotry; it needs to be resisted.
A judge in the UK has ruled that not subscribing to Critical Race Theory is a protected belief under equality laws.
Sean Corby, an employee of the government’s workplace conciliation service Acas, was accused of promoting “racist ideas” for saying that he favoured Martin Luther
A man can’t be a lesbian.
That this is now a contentious statement tells us all we need to know about how far the culture war has spiralled out of control.
A sign from this weekend’s Dresden Pride…
This kind of sexually aggressive nonsense is precisely why so many gay men and lesbians now reject Pride. It no longer stands for them.
If you think gender ideologues are on “the right side of history”, you haven’t read much history.
If you think Jordan Peterson is “far right” then you either haven’t read his work or haven’t understood it.
If you start crying because he’s written a book, & call for it to be cancelled, you’re not behaving like an adult.
In either case, you shouldn’t be working in publishing.
Once again for the fantasists: J.K. Rowling has *never* said anything transphobic, which is why you can never quote any examples.
Oh, and removing her name from her books doesn’t suddenly mean she didn’t write them…
We have found an alternative venue for our cancelled Edinburgh fringe show. 🥳
Ticket holders will be informed of the address on the day of the performance.
Pharisees need not attend.
An able-bodied man who identifies as a disabled woman has been interviewed sympathetically on Norwegian TV.
Reminds me of this Twitter argument from a couple of years ago…
Jo Brand isn’t violent.
Danny Baker isn’t racist.
Count Dankula isn’t a Nazi.
Mike Ward doesn’t want kids to die.
Louis CK doesn’t find school massacres funny.
Paul Chambers didn't want to bomb Doncaster Airport.
Remember when we all knew that jokes aren’t to be taken literally?
Protesters at
@ThePosieParker
’s Let Women Speak event in New Zealand turned violent - and the police were nowhere to be seen.
My thoughts from tonight’s episode of Free Speech Nation…
A while ago I asked why the most abusive tweets come from those with pronouns in bios.
It’s a genuine question, as pronouns are meant to signify tolerance.
I’ve since been swamped with abusive tweets from those with pronouns in bios.
So I guess I must’ve been wrong then... 🧐
Twitter suspending accounts for stating biological facts = “That’s just accountability”, “Build your own platform”, “Twitter is a private company and can do what it wants”, etc.
Twitter suspending Kathy Griffin for impersonating Elon Musk = “Fascism”
Irrespective of political differences, we should all be deeply troubled when a man is arrested for posting a meme that some people found offensive.
This is not how the police behave in a free society.
This exchange epitomises the problem with the cult of social justice.
Like all zealots, they are incapable of argument. They can only assert. Their instincts are authoritarian.
Unless we resist the intrusion of this ideology into our schools, it's only going to get worse.
Politicians should never be invoking the skin colour of their opponents.
This is the cancer of wokeness: it convinces people that it’s not racist to be racist.
Irrespective of our differences, can’t we all agree this kind of ugly identity politics has no place in parliament?
In this video, the police officer claims the preacher is being arrested for “hate crime” following complaints that he has “caused distress” by quoting from the Bible.
Is there more to this case? Or does the Bible now officially qualify as “hate speech”?
Teacher sends explicit messages and photos to a pupil: banned from teaching for 2 years.
Teacher praises a class by saying “well done girls”: banned from teaching for life.
When the struggle for gay rights was underway, protesters weren’t holding up signs telling their detractors to commit suicide.
The violent rhetoric of gender ideologues is just one of the reasons why their campaigns fail to persuade the general public.
Accusing someone of homophobia is very serious and requires evidence.
So John, I'll wait until you produce some and then you can explain to my boyfriend that I secretly hate him.
It was inevitable that Twitter would eventually cancel
@TitaniaMcGrath
.
I assume that “temporarily restricted” is Twitterspeak for “permanently banned”.
We shall see... 🧐
Ireland’s descent into authoritarianism continues.
This is Irish Green Party Senator Pauline O'Reilly weaponising the concept of “safety” to justify censorship and other encroachments on freedom of speech.
Even as he was being arrested by the Taliban, the comedian Nazar Mohammad was making jokes about them to their faces.
He was later found dead.
“The greatest enemy of authority is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter” - Hannah Arendt
The House of Commons is a mess.
Instead of a Speaker, we have an activist.
Instead of MPs, we have careerists who care little for democracy or constitutional procedure.
Instead of open-minded debate, we have childish jeering and intransigence.
Time for a written constitution?
This kind of violent hysteria over women peacefully gathering in a public space to express their views has become sadly predictable.
While these zealots attack the “Nazis” of their collective imagination, the media and political classes cheer them on…
This sign at
@ICMPLondon
calls on staff and students to REPORT anyone who believes “trans women are not women, and accordingly have no place in women’s spaces”.
Note how a view held by the majority of the population is here being presented as a form of extremist ideology…
Sorry to say
@Twitter
have locked
@TitaniaMcGrath
out of her account yet again.
I’ll keep you all posted. But I suspect she might not be reinstated.
We shall see...
THREAD 🧵
Why are so many still trying to defend Mermaids?
This is a group that promotes a dangerous form of gender identity ideology to children, claims puberty blockers are harmless and reversible, & encourages breast binding for young girls without parental consent.
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Let’s be honest. Nobody thinks that Alastair Stewart is racist. Not his employers, not his critics: nobody.
We need to restore critical thinking. We need to dismiss the reactionaries who seize any opportunity to detect racism where it doesn’t exist.
We’re better than this.
Astonishingly, this police officer seems to believe that violent protesters are not responsible for their own actions.
Instead, he blames the peaceful protester for “causing them to breach the peace”.
🤦♂️
Rishi Sunak will “review the Equality Act to make it clear that sex means biological sex rather than gender” so that “biological males cannot compete in women’s sport and single-sex facilities such as changing rooms and women’s refuges will be protected.”
Okay. I know this photo is going to come out eventually. So I may as well get it over with.
Many years ago, I dressed up as a Native American.
I shouldn't have done it. I should have known better, but I didn't.
I sincerely apologise for this vile act of cultural appropriation.
If you need reminding how far Twitter is from real life, you need only read the unhinged responses to
@LozzaFox
’s perfectly reasonable points on
#BBCQuestionTime
last night.
The woke may dominate the media, the arts and Silicon Valley, but the vast majority remain unconvinced.
An adult actually wrote this.
And a website which used to publish articles by Christopher Hitchens actually published it.
Wokeness lobotomises everyone it touches.
A middle-aged male cricket player has been competing against girls as young as 12.
“The player has previously caused injuries… an opponent at county trials was left unable to play for months.”
We have sacrificed sanity on the altar of “inclusivity”…
This is an actual tenured professor at Cornell University.
As a society, we must seriously consider how such bigoted frauds have ended up in control of higher education.
I know it’s probably too late, but we should at least try to salvage what remains of our universities.
For anyone who still thinks that the culture war is a fringe concern, here's a member of the Shadow Cabinet claiming that biological reality is "dog whistle transphobia".
Future historians will doubtless be fascinated that a secular religion based on group identity led so many on the left to oppose women’s rights and to support the medicalisation and sterilisation of gay children.
For those of us living through it, it’s just depressing.
West Midlands Police discuss disorder that kicked off after misinformation spread online. The Sky News crew covering the unrest in Birmingham were followed by a man holding a knife and wearing a balaclava after broadcasting live.
The Cass Review has clearly driven many people to a state of denial. And the high priests of gender identity ideology are fuming.
Ultimately, the concept of “gender identity” is a religious belief. And while I support religious freedom, we should never have accepted the
If I were deliberately trying to come up with the most offensive and misogynistic synonyms for “women”, I reckon these would do the trick:
• “menstruators”
• “people who bleed”
• “birthing parents”
• “individuals with a cervix”
The teacher who was suspended from his school for showing an image of Mohammed has been in hiding for months.
The teaching unions didn't stand up for him, even though there are no blasphemy laws in the UK.
At least these binmen are doing the right thing.
Many people are claiming that “cancel culture doesn’t exist”.
Of course nobody is literally “cancelled”. It’s a metaphor for the practice of systematically destroying someone’s reputation and livelihood for ideological reasons.
Not only is cancel culture real, it is widespread.
There is absolutely no requirement, either legal or regulatory, for the media to keep pretending that predatory men are women.
Stop lying to the public.
If we were to destroy every monument to historical figures who fail to live up to the ethical standards of 2020, few would survive.
There are ways to educate people about the evils of the past without engaging in this kind of revisionist vandalism.
I had the privilege of reading an advance copy of
@Glinner
’s new book. It’s the best memoir I’ve read for years. Riveting and hilarious.
And judging from the meltdowns online, it’s annoying all the right people.
Pre-order here:
“Hate speech” is defined by those with the power to legislate against it.
The state must never be trusted to set the limits of acceptable speech.
It is very sinister to see such authoritarian ideas endorsed in the name of “freedom”.
Gender identity ideology is rooted in deeply conservative stereotypes of male and female behaviour.
This is why it is so damaging to gender non-conforming kids, most of whom turn out to be gay.
Here’s an image from Mermaids rating gender on a spectrum from Barbie to G.I. Joe…
Our new issue is here! On the cover—'Periods on display' and the cultural movement against menstrual shame and
#PeriodPoverty
.
Plus,
@WHO
air quality guidelines, low
#BackPain
management, community-acquired bacterial
#meningitis
, and more. Read:
@darewecan
It has happened. Here's one UK example, where a judge told a woman who was beaten up by a trans-identified male that she showed 'bad grace' by refusing to call her attacker 'she' in court.
When I read some of the responses to Jordan Peterson’s illness, I’m reminded why the Left has become so commonly associated with a lack of compassion, tolerance and basic human empathy.
We on the Left need to get our own house in order. These people are seriously fucking it up.
“Islamophobia” is a nonsense term, designed to stifle criticism.
No ideology or belief-system should be ringfenced from criticism or ridicule.
Christopher Hitchens was right.
It’s not surprising that the woke ideology is spreading.
Not only does it grant its disciples the illusion of moral superiority, and a licence to bully, it also absolves them from the adult obligation of thinking for themselves.
There’s a comfort in that. Thinking takes effort.
Now
@JarvisDupont
has been suspended.
Twitter is purging satirical accounts that mock identity politics.
Those in power can never tolerate being ridiculed.
J.K. Rowling has NEVER expressed any anti-trans views. Yet so many working in the media have convinced themselves otherwise.
Lazy journalism only explains so much. This is a kind of collective hysteria, one that will no doubt fascinate future historians.
I find the hysteria over GB News to be genuinely fascinating.
Months before launch, activists were insisting it would be “far-right” and would stoke hate and division.
When the channel aired, there was no evidence of any of this, but still the same claims were made…
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The question “what is a woman?” has become the most reliable method of testing the honesty of the ruling class.
We are living through a period of collective mania. Historians of the future will enjoy trying to explain it all.
Since the murder of Samuel Paty, we’ve seen numerous commentators suggest that those who disrespect Islam are the problem.
Psychopaths who kill cartoonists and schoolteachers are the problem.
How is this not obvious?
We can only hope that the NHS ban on puberty blockers for kids will begin a global trend.
Between 80-90% of adolescents referred to the Tavistock were same-sex attracted.
The NHS was practicing gay conversion therapy in plain sight.