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"We are an inclusive venue and this does not align with our overall values.”
"Inclusive" translation: "we are an exclusive venue. We will exclude anyone who dares to question or make fun of any political ideologies our staff happen to be enamoured of."
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BBC presenter says ‘overwhelmingly white’ workplace affects his mental health.
At some point in the last 10 years, it became politically acceptable in the UK for some people to blame their personal problems on other people having the wrong skin colour.
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Oh come on
@guardian
, this is horrid. Challenge her views if you like. Demonising her as "anti-trans" is lazy & pusillanimous.
Nor is it clever to describe a frenzied, censorious, and violent mobbing of innocent women as a "confrontation between groups".
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"“Apparently, they’ve invited some awful transphobe to come and speak.”
Cambridge students demonstrating against Stonewall founder Simon Fanshaw demonstrate the dire need for serious discussions about free speech and why it matters.
@UnHerd
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It may not always nice or necessary to question people's gender identity.
But when a broadcaster is reprimanded for telling a factual truth **that is essential to the news story he is telling**, that's a sure sign that some people have lost the plot.
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Ashok Kumar is a senior lecturer at Birkbeck.
What will his students and colleagues make of this? It looks horribly like gleeful support of a genocidal massacre of hundreds of innocent youngsters by a terrorist organization who are self-proclaimed anti-semitic racists.
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"The problems really come from the fact that academics had been too cowardly in the past."
Michael Biggs is right. Academics who avoid debate and appease the authoritarians who try to silence Kathleen Stock have forgotten what universities are for.
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Emily Bridges claims that asking biological males to compete in men's categories is analogous to:
1. maltreatment of refugees
2. violent repression of political dissenters
3. use of starvation as a political weapon
…and then asks for "nuanced policy discussion".
On yer bike.
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Sorry, UCU leaders, but this won't wash with any sincere academics. You can't claim to represent your academic membership if you repeatedly boast about your own intolerant authoritarianism, and advise your members against open-minded debate on important social issues.
In line with our democratically-agreed policy, we opposed this transphobic event last time they tried it and will do so again.
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Edinburgh Fringe will host thousands of comedians who push the boundaries of public offence-giving.
Is it really going to be unable to host an MP who dares to say that sex is a biological reality?
Or will our city wake up and show the world it has a brain and a conscience?
EXC: An Edinburgh Fringe event featuring Joanna Cherry has been cancelled after staff at the venue, including management and box office personnel, said they would not be comfortable working at the show
Cherry said she has been “no platformed”
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Trying to understand why
@Glinner
is cancelled. Example: he described David Tennant (another national treasure) as a "groomer".
Rude & unkind? Sure. Hang on, though… Tennant had worn a T-shirt telling us that anyone daring to question gender ideology was "a freak."
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When you see an academic mobbing, don't look the other way. Contact the signatories collectively or personally. Ask them why, instead of trying to offer rational and dignified counterarguments, they tried to intimidate a fellow academic into silence and/or sabotage their career.
Each day there is a different paragraph which really hits me. This is para 617 which confirms what I claimed all along. The open letter was an act of harassment
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"Born in the wrong body". Almost no-one said this before 2000. The belief may often be compelling, but the phrase doesn't absolve us of the duty to think things through.
When an influential phrase is as recent as this, shouldn't we all be curious, and want to raise questions?
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Let's ponder the implications of this,
@EdinUni
:
1. How did it come to pass that people who identify as scholars think it's ok to prevent discussion of books?
2. How did "scholars" become so ashamed of reading that they are now proud to protest against books they haven't read?
We spoke to Johnny, who was protesting the book launch.
He said this:
(Unfortunately the video was corrupted, but we still captured audio.)
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@EdinUniversity
's struggles with violent trans activists are part of a problem that goes beyond Edinburgh and beyond gender issues.
The problem is a growing body of attention-seeking militants who think universities are parade grounds, not places for discussion and learning.
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Deeply ashamed that the leaders of the union in which I chose to remain as a faithful member for 35 years have again nailed their colours to the mast of authoritarian intolerance.
As such, we have written to the University to ask them to withdraw the use of a UoE venue for what we believe to be a transphobic event timetabled for next week.
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Challenging new idea from Oxford's VC: students might benefit from listening to a diversity of viewpoints.
And so, right on cue, someone in Oriel College apologises to students for the "discomfort caused" by Nigel Biggar's talk on colonialism.
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If TRAs had viable moral arguments, would they need to repeatedly resort to censorious thuggery?
At some point, surely, a movement so lacking in credibility must eventually run out of steam.
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Another very sad and embarrassing day for citizens of Edinburgh.
People with zero interest in debate, or in moral progress, or even in basic problem-solving, have been again allowed to sabotage a campus event.
Don't ever take Enlightenment values for granted.
The screening of Adult Human Female at Edinburgh University has been cancelled.
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Activists who make false accusations of "hate crime" to justify censorship can't claim to be in favour of social justice.
Academics need a union that supports open-minded scholarship. Viewpoint diversity & debate are crucial if we are to resolve social dilemmas and disputes.
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Just in case you weren't aware how horrifically irresponsible academic activists can become, here's Prof Stephen Whittle openly inciting intolerant violence to people who have different political views.
I'm not a fan of safetyism, but is it safe to have lecturers like this?
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Another
@EdinburghUni
lecturer who doesn't seem to understand the basics of human decency, let alone the point of universities.
Youngsters in balaclavas threatened 80-year-old women on campus, and her response is to blame her colleagues for trying to hold a discussion event.
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Well done to Joanna Cherry, The Stand, and security staff.
Universities: this is how it's done. Show the censorious thugs that a civilized society will find ways of allowing civilized debates to happen.
Joanna Cherry says the SNP under Stephen Flynn is very different and she may have different beliefs from him but they disagree with respect. And she addressed the matter of her security outside to the press
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…and a slightly different version, with homage to Janey Godley
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Sturgeon says those who question gender self-ID are "stoking a culture war". In truth, they're raising a very serious set of consitutional, legal, and moral questions about rights and safeguarding.
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Astonishing to see people defending the idea of individuals being singled out to apologise and pay reparations for ancestral sins 200 years ago.
Have these people not grasped the obvious truth that we're all descended from both slaves and from people who enslaved others?
Benedict Cumberbatch's family could be forced to pay reparations to Barbados for running a slave plantation on the island in the 18th and 19th century.
When the plantation was forced to close his family were given £6,000 in compensation - in today's money that's £3.6million.
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@DrSarahLiu
@EdinburghUni
Hi Sarah, so if you've watched this film, and come to the view that it's "transphobic" and "racist", would you like to elaborate, and give specific examples?
I saw neither of those things. I saw lots of considerate contributions to crucial moral debates.
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This is crucial: uncritical gender-affirmationism (i.e. denial of the realities of biological sex) causes public harm. Organizations like
@parkrunUK
should have their funding withdrawn if they continue to promote it.
Cass report : sports orgs have been complicit in promoting gender ideology
This includes
@parkrunUK
who ask juniors for their gender, allow males to self ID into the F category and delete photos / names asking for fair results for females
Apologies and change are in order
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Yesterday's long-awaited Edinburgh seminar on sex and gender in schools with Stephanie Davies-Arai
@cwknews
, Michele Moore
@michelemooreEd
, and Shereen Benjamin
@EdinUniAFAF
was passionate, informative, considerate, & morally persuasive.
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200 academics unfairly denounced by people too lazy to make an argument.
Be a proper colleague: next time you see someone unfairly denounced, make your voice heard. You may then be denounced yourself, but in the long run they can't denounce all of us.
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This is much better from Peter Mathieson
@EdinburghUni
. A strong and clear statement on the principles that universities rely on.
Sadly, he will now have to take disciplinary action against the students concerned, AND THE STAFF who encouraged them.
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@DrSarahLiu
@UoEStaffPride
@UoEBAME
@Dr_CSW
Two queries:
1. Are you encouraging students to use brute force to censor viewpoints they disagree with, instead of engaging in debates?
2. Do you have any reasons to suspect a link between "white supremacy" and wanting peaceful resolutions to disagreements on gender?
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'Both sides' is a poisonous smear. … No one on our side wears T-shirts with slogans such as 'Kill all Terfs' and 'Die Terf Scum'.
This is true. We should listen to both sides. But one one side has lost credibility through repeated use of terror tactics.
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Students have axed a talk by
@Fox_Claire
, leading advocate of free speech and viewpoint diversity. Why? She once laughed at Ricky Gervaise's jokes.
Have they understood the point of university, if they look for this kind of excuse to censor a debate?
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Excellent idea, please share and support.
A trade union cannot represent academic members if it openly scoffs at academic freedom, encourages censorship, and uses mob denunciations to scare and discredit anyone who disagrees.
After what happened
@EdinburghUni
when students and staff, including
@ucuedinburgh
prevented the screening of Adult Human Female, we have decided to make a Tribunal claim against our union
@ucu
. Please share our crowdfund & support if you can.
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A thousand cheers for
@ProfTomkins
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Cheers also to
@michaelpforan
for standing up to bullies. There is hope left for the calm pursuit of truth and justice in universities.
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Most of this piece is untrue or illjudged. e.g.:
1. It is not "rightwing" to ask for fairness women's sport.
2. No-one is trying to "exclude" trans people from participating.
3. No-one is "forcibly outing" anyone. We're just asking for fair play.
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It's crucial that we don't bow to the censorious thugs who trashed a public discussion event on gender ideology and women's sex-based rights yesterday.
The film is free online. It is considerate and informative, and it raises important moral questions.
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In weightlifting, males have a 43% strength advantage.
But a judge has announced that if women won't allow males to compete as women, they must quit their sport.
We'd all rather be tweeting about fun stuff, but faced with this madness we must keep on calmly fighting back.
We published a podcast about Judge Patrick Diamond's decision to order us to cease operations in Minnesota. Here is a clip of USA Powerlifting President Dr. Larry Maile sharing our data on transwomen competing against women in powerlifting - men have a 43% advantage over women.
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Both sides can see the merit of using a university space to discuss the challenges of gender justice.
Only one side repeatedly tries to censor the other side. Only one side portrays academic freedom as an existential threat, and refuses to see any merit in open-minded debate.
"A separate event is taking place on the same evening... to discuss the representation of transgender rights in the media. These events have raised strong and differing feelings within our community." But only one of them has seen defamatory attacks via a mass mailing to staff.
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Note that as so often before, "transphobia" is simply spat out as a discussion-ending insult. Not only are these thugs making no attempt to engage in the kind of debate that scholars are supposed have joined universities for, they want to stop others from debating too. Ugh.
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Wise up, Edinburgh, there are plenty of us here who are not very keen on intolerance and harassment. We just need to say so, and preferably do this unambiguously and in public.
My friend & cross-party comrade Shereen Benjamin has been subject to appalling intimidation & workplace bullying at
@EdinburghUni
because of her lesbian feminist beliefs. They should follow
@SussexUni
lead, call it out & support their staff member.
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Retweet this eloquent piece if you believe that biology matters, and that therefore in a civilized society we should be free to discuss options for protecting women against "sex-based disadvantages".
via
@areomagazine
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I'll be quiet on here for some time, while I see if it’s possible to help my colleagues and student cancellers to appreciate why
a)viewpoint diversity matters, and
b) no scholar, and no social justice movement, can flourish without responding constructively to valid challenges.
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"There is no war on men". Hm. Yet in the report there are an awful lot of references to toxic masculinity and misogyny. Misandry? Toxic femininity? Anti-male prejudices? Nope, wouldn't fit the story.
When will we start debating gender in open-minded ways?
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Still seems like this is a time bomb for all those involved. If there was no evidence of the effectiveness or safety of puberty blockers, are the professionals who promoted and prescribed them guilty of professional misconduct?
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Come on
@parkrun
, is it really so hard to sort this out?
The longer this goes on, the more damage it does to women's running, and to public respect for Park Run.
A male finished 1st Female today at parkrun, bumping more than 200 females down into a worse finish position.
2nd Female was a girl. She has lost:
- 1st Female;
- her name celebrated on this week’s first finishers list; and
- her ‘most first finishes’ total increasing.
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Also worth noticing that
@ucuedinburgh
leaders are so confident in their own debating abilities that they have switched replies off. "Democratic" my …
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Greta Thunberg signals support for violent censorship of an academic event discussing women's rights, implying that she thinks a film she probably hasn't seen is "transphobic".
Good to see most replies explaining why her illconsidered virtue signalling wasn't a great idea.
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"asking what Rowling actually said that was so terrible produces nothing. You've never seen a transphobic statement from J. K. Rowling because none exists."
Awkward home truths about gender ideology & cowardly virtue-signalling denunciation mobs, from Graham Linehan's new book.
The second extract from Tough Crowd. More from another newspaper next week
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Shame on the students spreading lies to justify their own unwillingness to engage in debate.
Even more shame on the staff who identify as scholars but are encouraging this kind of censoriousness.
They know by now that the "transphobic" slur is vacuous and entirely unwarranted.
Staff & Students
@EdinburghUni
are planning to prevent the screening of Adult Human Female on Wednesday for a third time. Their accusation that the film is 'transphobic' and 'hateful' is a lie. We hope the Uni will not allow these censorious authoritarians to get their way.
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@gbuttars
@EdinburghUni
Good grief, Grant, these are astonishing accusations. I've been a loyal union member for 35 years. Never imagined any of our reps would end up boasting of their opposition to academic freedom.
You may find most of our members are pretty keen on both AF and considerate debate.
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…so heartening to see
@edinburghUni
facing up to our responsibility to provide a decent forum for debate and public engagement on contentious social issues.
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Dawn Butler is accused of knowingly lying about the Cass Report in order to discredit it.
If so, this isn't just snide and unprofessional. It's a deliberate contribution to a dangerous ideology that puts children at risk of extremely harmful and unnecessary medical treatments.
"Following publication of her report figures including Labour MP Dawn Butler repeated claims that Cass had not included 100 transgender studies..Cass said it was “unforgivable” for people to undermine her report by spreading “straight disinformation”
#Cass
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"What is a woman?” isn't the riddle of the sphinx. It's an integrity test.
If someone won't say, in public, what a woman is, then you really can't trust them.
Are we at last nearing the point where we can tell the truth without losing our jobs or being called 'transphobic'?
It isn’t a “gotcha” to ask politicians to define “woman”, it’s a means by which we can assess the honesty of the ruling class.
My latest for
@unherd
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@WanjiruNjoya
Why has no-one done anything about Newton's problematic whiteness? Do people genuinely not appreciate the gravity of the situation?
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They've been warned for several years that the Hate Crime Act would be farcical and damaging.
Three days in, and the police are up to their oxters in vexatious complaints. Neither they nor politicians can give a confident or clear account of the rules.
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Whatever your views on the basics of biology, common sense, and fair play in sport, you have to admire people who force us all to be thankful for that brief, mad honeymoon phase when women dared to dream of having sporting events all of their own.
Whatever your view on trans inclusion, you have to admire Emily Bridges' courage in speaking out and setting the record straight
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Here we go: Jess Phillips, self-appointed arbiter of political morality, gender justice, and 'toxic' language. This is also the woman, remember, who goes through the year's list of UK murder victims crossing off all the men's names because they don't count.
@LeaveEUOfficial
Labour MP Jess Phillips will 'knife Corbyn in the front' if he damages party
@jessphillips
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Well said Kemi Badinoch. Truth matters. That's a basic principle of civil discourse.
The opinionated chair of this committee is questioning her right to say, truthfully, that biological sex is real, and that transgender beliefs are socially contagious.
This is the whole bloody problem. Lying.. making things up to try to smear people. Hiding behind parliamentary privilege. Can’t back up with any dates or sources. Go Kemi..
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@ucu
@OwenJones84
Have you spent more than the last five minutes actually taking the trouble to think and talk about why free speech matters?
Then sit back and enjoy watching the likes of UCU, Owen Jones, and Priyamvada Gopal develop a sudden and, um, slightly paradoxical passion for it.
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Why is the body suddenly unreliable, and the mind reliable?
Why is it suddenly young women who disbelieve and renounce their sex, whereas previously it was mainly men?
Why, so soon after same-sex attraction became ok, were so many people suddenly dismissing it as irrelevant?
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Trigger warning: there's a link here to a short documentary film.
It may look harmless enough, but it might tempt you into thinking carefully and forming your own views on important social debates.
I really hope that doesn’t give the film Adult Human Female even more publicity. That would be dreadful. Although good job on not letting slip that people can watch it on YouTube.
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Retweeting this in view of this evening's repeat debacle at
@EdinburghUni
.
Crucial for universities to see they need to do what they can to defend the campus against attacks like this, and proactively educate students & staff on the core values of open debate & academic freedom.
On the importance of free speech in Universities.
More specifically, on the University of Edinburgh's clear duty to ensure that Adult Human Female screening/discussion can go ahead following its disruption in December by misguided, censorious activists.
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OK
@ucuedinburgh
. So you've restricted replies. I wonder why?
If you are sincere about these claims, and want to stoke considerate, sensible debate, surely your next step must be to specify what it is about this event you object to, and why.
Thanks in advance.
It is our branch policy to demand that
@EdinburghUni
neither host nor facilitate meetings which contain content which is transphobic, biphobic, homophobic or otherwise detrimental to the safety and wellbeing of LGBT+ staff.
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Perhaps they think this will suffice to explain and justify censorship.
No, sorry. We are a UNIVERSITY. We exist to help and encourage people to explore information and ideas.
And if universities are to help people fight for social justice, they must allow open-minded debate.
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@davidclewis
Sorry, who's actually going to believe that was just a little oops. You can just picture them behind scenes: 'Go on, you do it. We'll both take the blame. Go on, you only live once. There, it's done now. You've only bloody well been and gone and done it. Shit, what happens now?'
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If we really want a happier world, in which fewer people suffer from obsessive distrust or dislike of their own bodies, shouldn't we be challenging rather than affirming people's bodily self-loathing?
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"The BBC contacted EUSA for a comment but was told nobody was available to speak.
…The Edinburgh branch of the UCU was approached for comment but did not give a response."
No debate, no opinions except on placards, no tolerance of others debating.
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Why, so soon after women’s sports were developed, were so many people hell-bent on wrecking them by allowing males to compete as women?
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Rhetorical question. Clearly it's not 'hateful' to exclude male from women's sports and defend fairness.
This may seem blindingly obvious, but this madness will continue until enough people have the decency to say this out loud. Please share, and please keep speaking out.
@joepabike
@i_heart__bikes
@micahling007
@ithompsonfdn
@BicyclingMag
Why is it hate to point out it's not fair to have biological males competing against women? It's not just a handful
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These are just questions. If you read them as attacks, you might want to ask yourself if this might be paranoia, and if so where it comes from.
There are plenty more psychological, sociological, linguistic, and political questions we should be asking.
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7 years ago Charlie Peters
@CDP1882
, then a 1st-year student, highlighted the threats to academic freedom at
@EdinburghUni
.
Seems time we stopped pretending this is a trivial or ephemeral problem, and embarked on a course of serious remedial action.
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Nothing new about academics strongly disagreeing, especially on moral issues. Constructive disagreement has always been part of the point.
Two horrid new things:
1. Hateful, uninformed, ad hominem denunciations.
2. Attempts to silence lecturers with no attempt at dialogue.
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UCU's Jo Grady confirms what we already knew: that she is fundamentally unfit to represent academics.
Like some other trojan horse activists within the union, she stubbornly refuses to recognize academic freedom as a core value.
This is a new low for Jo Grady (and UCU). She is the leading candidate for our 'Zero' for September, if not for 2023. Free speech, whether or not it is deemed offensive, is at the heart of academic freedom:
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Crucial test for
@EdinUni
: third time around, will we finally show we are a mature, socially responsible campus where sensitive topics can be discussed in tolerant and open-minded ways without interference from censorious thugs?
We're pleased to announce that our screening and discussion of Adult Human Female will take place at the University of Edinburgh on Wednesday November 22nd at 6pm. Details and booking available on our Ticket Tailor site.
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Why, so soon after most educated people had learned to doubt the reality or relevance of something as fanciful and vague as the soul, did "soul" beliefs enjoy a sudden renaissance in the form of “true (gendered) self” ideology?
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1823 (JMW Turner) vs 2023 (Jesse Darling, Turner Prize winner)
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In 1697 an Edinburgh student was executed for "blasphemy". The public backlash against this abuse of theocratic power spurred on the Scottish Enlightenment.
Will we see a similar backlash against the arrogant and abusive "hate crime" legislation?
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"Left-wingers in the West now seem to support groups, however barbaric… to signal their contempt for our civilisation".
Doug Stokes offers fair and hard-hitting critiques of the ongoing cult of lazy virtue signalling and luxury beliefs.
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She's right. Truth and honesty are core requirements of responsible journalism. When journalists conspire to be deliberately deceitful like this, they are destroying public trust and spreading ignorance.
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Sending Barry Humphries all the love, and let's hope he's back in front of the cameras soon because no-one tells a Schnauzer joke quite like he does
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Hard to imagine a more annoying, unfair, and embarrassing instance of spineless cancel culture in action.
Alka has long been one of UK's leading advocates of nondivisive approaches to culture and identity. Racist "antiracists" are terrified of this.
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"allowing biological males to compete in female-only competitions means that the parameters of fair competition have been breached before the contest has even begun."
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Noteworthy that references to "true self", "real me", "authentic self" etc rose sharply from the 1990s, during the rise of the internet and social media.
[extracted from Google Books Ngram viewer]
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How sad but predictable that
@CornelWest
should insist that the colour of Claudine Gay's skin is more morally relevant than the content of her character.
The bigotry of low expectations is alive and well, and it is destroying prospects of improved inter-ethnic relations in USA.
How sad but predictable that the same figures and forces enabling the ethnic cleansing and genocidal attacks on Palestinians in Gaza - Ackman, Blum, Summers and others - push out the first Black woman president of Harvard! This racism against both Palestinians and Black people is
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If people were confident in their "born in the wrong body" belief, would they require everyone else to publicly affirm their belief?
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People prone to misrepresenting gender-critical views as "anti-trans" (or much worse) might care to listen to this and reflect.
We need to disagree well if we are to make progress on social conflicts. That means not unfairly labelling and denouncing people so as to silence them.
@chortle
Misrepresenting Joanna Cherry’s views as “trans-critical” does you no credit.
Her actual views are readily available should you wish to familiarise yourself with them.
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"Transphobic" has become a hammer. It's the weapon of choice for gender ideology zealots. It seems that once you've learned to enjoy wielding this hammer, you no longer see a need for reasoned argument. And anyone not endorsing your version of gender ideology looks like a nail.
We learn that
@ucuedinburgh
have written once again to the VC and staff denouncing our film as transphobic and calling for it and a forthcoming gender critical book launch to be banned from the campus.This is why we are doing this👇
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Been thinking and talking about the importance of free speech for longer than the past five minutes?
Then sit back and relax to the joyfully frothy sounds of UCU, Owen Jones, Priyamvada Gopal et al, suddenly trying to grasp why it might matter even for them.
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…This fad for racial profiling is of course socially toxic and divisive. In the UK, we have only ourselves to blame for adopting this foul habit from the USA.
Here's Google's Ngram Viewer showing us clear evidence of the trends in USA and UK towards paranoid racialised lookism.
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@satiricole
Thank you so much, Nicole. These are troubling times, but I'm very heartened to see people standing up for decency, moral curiosity, and the pursuit of truth through courteous debate.
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Chilling. I hope this leads to a full investigation and further exposés. We all struggle to know what news to trust nowadays. "BBC Verify" needs to do what it says on the tin.
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@andrewdoyle_com
I have a very good friend called Vermilion Torquil-Busking. His accent's a bit posh too, and he's a vegan Extinction Rebellion campaigner who also flies off in his private jet to go grouse shooting. What's your point?
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Warmest congratulations to Maya Forstater. Good result after a long battle, and a big step towards recovery of common sense and common decency in UK public discourse.
I have received the "remedy" judgement in my case.
@cgdev
has been ordered to pay over £100k in compensation for loss of earnings, injury to feelings and aggravated damages for their high-handed conduct.
Thank-you to everyone who supported my case
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Want to know more about
@UCUEdinburgh
leaders' attitudes to academic freedom? Here is Grant Buttars' response to the founding of EAFAF last year.
Why would someone who is implacably opposed to mature and honest debate on social issues choose a University as their workplace?
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…and if you'd like to experience some of this mind-expanding discomfort for yourself, here's the link to Biggar's discussion of worthy and more questionable forms of "decolonization" rhetoric.
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@MooseAllain
Yes I was there this morning. They'll let you safely past if you give them enough jelly babies.
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