Arguments around free speech tend to go something like this.Pro-Free Speech: All views should be heard, and the poisonous views will be seen for what they are and dismissed.Pro censorship: If you give harmful poisonous views the oxygen of publicity they will poison the discourse. However, I’d like to point out another effect of partial
Read MorePolitics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. Mao ZeDong, Lecture, 1938 Today, the completely unbiased, not at all transphobic Telegraph reported that JK Rowling has said that the “Tories have been handed an open goal” by Labour, due to their support for the GRR. And as a result, the Tories will
Read More“Their failed immigration system which is not working for British people.” Racheal Reeves As an independence supporter, especially one that’s previously a member of the Labour Party, I hear this a lot. So let’s have a quick look at what senior members of the Labour Party themselves say about marginalised groups and how they will
Read MoreEverything below the rock hard facsimiles of ‘breasts’ screams male Beringia “We can always tell”, is the scream of every transphobe from Wings Over Scotland (who happens to live nowhere near Scotland) to Graham “Someone fund my play” Linehan. Yet so blinded by hate are they, that they decided a photo of Sharron Davies was
Read MoreNo sense being a grifter if its the same as bein’ a citizen. Henry Gondorff – The Sting Yesterday the courier ran a story about a police probe into transphobe, Marion Millar. Not this time for her transphobia but for fraud. It appears not only did allegedly steal the thousands of pounds crowdfunded for her
Read MoreTest fast, fail fast, adjust fast Tom Peters So Suzanne Moore, she of “It’s not transphobic to question child chest binding” and “If Stonewall doesn’t represent a woman like Allison Bailey, then who is it for?” fame, has joined Mastadon. I of course have blocked and reported her but it will be interesting to see
Read MoreA screen shot of a tweet that reads, I have quite a few mutuals who follow @LGBallianceNYC & I feel it imperative to warn you that the man running the account (he’s one person pretending to be an orginisation) is a registered child sex offered in the state of new york. then their is a
Read MoreWe owe a great debet today to our trans and non binary friends, collgues, comrads and relitives … Today is for you Maggie Chapman MSP As I predicted, the GRR passed Stage 1; 88 to 33. However, it clearly wasn’t without issues, the relatively unknown Ash Regan resigned as minister despite not having the guts
Read MoreI figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest. Alan Cox Later today, sometime after 2 PM and before 5 PM, the Scottish Parliament will debate and vote on Stage 1 of the GRR (Gender Recognition Reform Bill). This has been a long coming.
Read MoreTo lose one may be regarded as a misfortune, to lose two looks like carelessness. ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ Oscar Wilde So in September Liz Truss became Tory leader, and she has managed to stay in office for just 40 odd days, A record and far less than George Canning the previous holder of
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