The royal we doesn’t help his project.
There’s a lot of What’s Wrong With Jolyon packed into that one. Making a public announcement of that kind. Starting with “style themselves progressive,” which is an insult. Much worse, that “but” – “You consider yourself progressive but you hate me, this must be underlined and explained.” I can consider myself progressive and find Jolyon Maugham vain and self-promoting and a bully – I can even be progressive and find JM all that. I can and so can anyone. He may consider himself progressive, he may even be progressive in some sense, but he’s also a flaming egomaniac and a sexist bully.
Then there’s “(generally because of @GoodLawProject’s defence of trans rights)” – as if there were no other reasons. There are other reasons. The vanity, the self-promotion, the bullying, the disdain for women who disagree with him, the intolerance of any disagreement at all, the complete indifference to feminist explanations of how purported “trans rights” impinge on our rights…and did I mention the vanity? And, to cap it all, there’s the utterly typical invocation of “trans rights” without explaining what they are. It’s just dishonest to keep framing it that way. We don’t oppose human rights for trans people, we oppose new invented “rights” that aren’t really rights and that cancel our rights.
Then “cheer the dishonest attacks” – look in the mirror.
Then the warning, which rests on the absurd assumption that without him there will be disaster. Him personally, which he tries to disguise as the Good Law Project in his usual way, but the attempt is laughable since he’s talking about his own precious self throughout.
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The willful, boastful, fox bludgeoning.
That should be put on billboards all over every country which has been bamboozled by the likes of Fox Bludgeoner.
The whole con game absolutely relies on never defining what is meant by “trans rights.”
From Mumsnet
On the face of it the Good Law Project does sound like um a good project, a worthwhile cause, holding our awful Government to account etc. I can see myself chucking a tenner at it without looking too much into it. I wouldn’t even cavil at the chief guy being an egomaniac, as you don’t necessarily get the nicest, self-effacing people fronting such organisations. But really – he does give himself away with every tweet.
Now he’s blaming the Comms for the mixed messages. (Can’t find the quote tweet so that may not be right.)
Night Crow, thanks for the mumsnet material!
It’s also pretty grossly egomaniacal to claim democracy is falling because there isn’t unanimous support for his pet project de jour. Maybe that’s actually democracy in action. On the other hand, claiming that because you’ve uttered a magic incantation that everyone has to support it, sounds a lot like proto authoritarianism.
Nicene creed? TWAW? Only difference I see is that the Nicene Creed is a lot longer. They are still recited as a part of a ritual one must endure if one wishes to remain a member of a certain community. I happily checked out of both. Now I continue my fight to be in the community formerly known as women.
NightCrow, excellent information!
KBPlayer, I have a good link for your last line:
The Good Law Project sent an email with a subject line, “Breaking: We won”. That story is captured in this larger story, Jolyon Apologizes for Pretending He Won.
@Dave Ricks – thanks for that.
There really is an apres moi, le deluge air to Jolyon Maugham.