DARVO much?
Oh please.
Open Democracy does the big Reverse:
Cancel culture? Trans-inclusive writers say they face abuse and censorship
They face abuse and censorship? You mean they engage in abuse and censorship.
Students and academics say they are bullied and threatened with legal action for opposing ‘gender critical’ views
And Open Democracy pretends to believe them.
Sussex English undergraduate Katie Tobin was among the first to experience such a backlash when she wrote an article in late 2018 for the Sussex branch of The Tab, a student newspaper conglomerate with a presence on dozens of UK campuses.
Tobin’s piece concerned an email Stock had sent the entire Sussex philosophy cohort defending her views on trans rights. In her article, Tobin said Stock’s email had “created a hostile and unwelcoming atmosphere” for trans students, and that her comments about trans issues had been “extremely detrimental” to their welfare.
In other words Tobin wrote an article bashing Stock…and Open Democracy is pretending Tobin is the one being bullied.
When the article was published, Stock responded on Twitter: “This is not OK @TheTab. I will be seeking legal advice.” In a tweet that Stock ‘liked’, a supporter of hers wrote: “Tobin is clearly a homophobe and misogynist”, and called the article “slander”.
At that point, Tobin said, she started getting a “flood” of “horrible messages”, including death threats. She filed a complaint with the university about Stock instigating a pile-on against her.
Tobin trashes Stock, Stock pushes back, Tobin pretends Stock is the baddy here, Open Democracy pretends the same. It’s remarkably brazen. Do they think we just won’t notice the part about Tobin’s article accusing Stock of creating a hostile atmosphere?
Sussex concluded that Stock was not responsible for the abuse Tobin had received, and that she had not been unprofessional or engaged in bullying. Tobin was, however, given £250 as compensation by the university.
After she put a target on Stock.
The university’s response to Tobin appeared to set a precedent, In October 2021, when students put up posters reading “IT’S NOT A DEBATE. IT’S NOT FEMINISM. IT’S NOT PHILOSOPHY. IT’S JUST TRANSPHOBIA AND IT’S NOT ON. FIRE KATHLEEN STOCK”, an art history lecturer at Sussex tweeted that “security rushed to remove them at 8am”.
And???? Do universities normally allow posters attacking individual professors by name?
There’s more. Then there’s Christa Peterson. Then there’s Grace Lavery. Then there’s Alison Phipps. This may take some time.
Straight from the Christian playbook. At this point the TRAs should just go off and find a new continent.
Just what sort of abuse and threats did Tobin receive? There really is some degree of anti-trans hostility from the far-right, wrapped up with all the generic homophobia. That said, I strongly suspect that the threats and insults claimed are coming from MEN, not lesbians.
Even if they do, universities require anyone putting up material on bulletin boards or any other university surface to get permission from the authorities. It would be interesting to know if that was the reason it was taken down, not the content. If the person putting it up did not get the little stamp (or whatever Sussex uses to indicate permission to post), it would be taken down.
Aha! Thanks for that.
I’d suggest Lemuria, Hyperborea, and Atlantis as candidate continents for them to go colonize.
(I aplogize in advance to any and all inhabitants of these places for suggesting such a thing, but those of us who are extant must take priority over those who are merely conjectural or mythological.)