When ‘Jolyons’ tell whoppers

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Ophelia Benson

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Now that’s a remarkably stupid thing to say.

We “won’t make that case”??? We won’t make the case that rejection of trans ideology is not in any way comparable to racism or anti-semitism or homophobia? We make that case all the time. We point out that it’s false and evidence-free and stupid and bad.

Also notice that he didn’t include the branch of group-hatred that is about half of humanity. Notice that he doesn’t compare what he calls “transphobia” to misogyny. Women? Meh. Who cares.

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8 responses to “When ‘Jolyons’ tell whoppers”

  1. Jim Baerg Avatar
    Jim Baerg

    Wasn’t there a time when the ACLU defended the free speech rights of people they *strongly* disagreed with, like anti-Semites.

  2. Holms Avatar
    Holms

    Shorter Jolyon: I keep calling these people transphobes and keep trying to get them to shut up, but they keep talking. Naughtiness proven.

  3. Sastra Avatar
    Sastra

    The truth is, these liberals don’t see being skeptical of an extraordinary claim as the moral equivalent of denying people jobs and housing, refusing to serve them at a lunch counter, or beating them up. Refusing to recognize this perfectly legitimate distinction is intellectually dishonest.

  4. Ophelia Benson Avatar
    Ophelia Benson

    Damn right it is. Well said.

  5. Sackbut Avatar
    Sackbut

    Jim Baerg @ 1

    Wasn’t there a time when the ACLU defended the free speech rights of people they *strongly* disagreed with, like anti-Semites.

    Here’s a recent profile of Fred Sargent by Matt Osborne, talking about the changes to the ACLU under Anthony Romero and Chase Strangio.

    Fred Sargeant Fingers Anthony Romero For Robbing The ACLU Of Its Principles

    “In short, he lacks the principles of the earlier ACLU” such as free speech on contentious political topics, Sargeant argues. Romero’s leadership has instead turned the ACLU into an ideological enforcer of a very narrow political perspective. “It’s why I think that he couldn’t take a Skokie case today,” he says. “Those days are long gone.”

  6. Francis Boyle Avatar
    Francis Boyle

    @Sackbut

    So in the US the ACLU is just as addicted to private money as Stonewall in the UK is addicted to public money. The monster of self-perpetuating bureaucracy will feed wherever it can.

  7. Pliny the in Between Avatar
    Pliny the in Between

    I used to support the ACLU (had a card and everything). At that time, the ACLU was all about defending the Bill of Rights. A lot of what they supported pissed me off. That was the point – emotional reactions to something shouldn’t be what holds sway.

    Unfortunately, at some point the ACLU morphed from a defender of rights to an enforcer of virtue. Which, ironically, had been the very thing they’d been designed to fight.

  8. Jim Baerg Avatar
    Jim Baerg

    Sackbut #5

    Following a few links to the article about the “Stryker Corporation” and “Arcus Foundation”, gives reason to oppose the very existence of billionaires. Some sort of highly progressive wealth tax looks like a good idea.

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