Union policy
The University and College Union has issued a statement endorsing the Sussex UCU statement, which UCU General Secretary Jo Grady has (of course) retweeted. (I think it’s safe to assume she approved it or wrote it in the first place.) It too is a disgusting, backstabbing, crawling, scab-embracing statement.
The statement (the Sussex one) is of course emphatically NOT “clear that UCU is not calling for any staff to be dismissed from their post.” On the contrary it’s clear that they are, in a passive-aggressive semi-deniable way. The word “summarily” is doing all the heavy lifting here – Sussex UCU frowns on staff being summarily fired. Slowly fired is quite all right, like for instance once it becomes clear that the union washes its hands of the member of staff.
All this for the sake of men who claim to be women.
So they condemn the personal threats that their exec are receiving as a consequence of their willingness to condone personal threats to one of their members.
Such a satisfying video, featuring Kathleen Stock, Emma Hilton and others. Worth a look. >> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RL-p6etvZjo
Men who wish they were women can do an awful lot of damage to themselves and perhaps others as well, as they stumble and rampage their way through life. To be pitied perhaps, but not indulged; and reminded that there are others worse off than them.
Blasphemy! Heresy! Did you not get the memo? They are the most oppressed ever! No slavery, no holocaust, no Rwandan genocide, no Stalinist purge, none of it can hold up as oppression next to misgendering. REAL VIOLENCE, I tell you. Really real, literal violence.
Looks like I stand corrected. ;-)