If all the reasonable people leave…
Another expulsion.
The BBC reported last September:
The Green Party of England and Wales has suspended its health spokesperson on the eve its largest-ever conference for calling reports of rising LGBT+ hate crimes “mischievous”.
At a general election hustings in June, Pallavi Devulapalli said she had “yet to meet anyone” who denieda person’s right to “dress” and “be addressed as they please”.
Ms Devulapalli told the BBC “there is no trans-hate in society in general”.
Ah but you see if you define trans hate as knowing that men are not women, then trans hate becomes ubiquitous, and everyone must be expelled or fired or punished.
Cade Hatton, co-chair of the LGBTQIA+ Greens group, said Ms Devulapalli’s comments at the hustings were “just the most recent thing in a long list of things that have made people uncomfortable”. Mr Hatton said he believed Ms Devulapalli was trying to have a debate about trans rights but had “not gone about it in the right way”.
He added that Ms Devulapalli’s suspension was an example of the Green Party’s disciplinary system “working a little more efficiently”. The party’s rights and responsibilities policy states “trans men are men, trans women are women, and that non-binary identities exist and are valid”.
So the party has an official policy that rests on two absurd lies. Good to know it’s working “a little more efficiently” though.
Well, there might be other things endangering the party….
Yeah, that thing.
On the other hand, I wouldn’t want to continue to be a member of a party that required me to give public voice to a lie.
It’s much harder when you live in a society that requires you to give public voice to lies. It’s very difficult to quit society.
Oh, I don’t know. I think I could do it easily. Of course, it helps that society quit me a long time ago. ;-)
I know damn well I couldn’t. Society = infrastructure, for one thing, and I know from the times the power has gone out that I rely heavily on infrastructure. Society = libraries, buses, the internet, publishing, movies, music, journalism, the arts, travel, agriculture, grocery stores…I couldn’t do without it for half an hour.
Yeah, I guess you’re right. I could quit people in many ways, since I’m already a misnathrope, but not the stuff you mention…nope.
Two lies? So non-binary identities are valid?
Why am I reminded of the Twilight Zone episode “Time Enough at Last”?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Enough_at_Last