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Well it didn’t work the first time, so might as well try again, right? The project of silencing feminist women is not for the faint-hearted!
Trans activists are trying to force the National Library of Scotland to ban a feminist book for the SECOND time by claiming its return has made the building an unsafe and hostile space for staff.
The Mail has seen an open letter signed by publishers, academics, as well as book festival staff demanding that the library’s board, who after a public outcry reinstated ‘The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht’, immediately ‘change course’.
Because I say, look here, it won’t do you know. It isn’t on. Women cannot be allowed to defend their rights just because their rights are being stifled. Where would it end?
It states:’ ‘We stand in solidarity with queer and trans staff at the National Library of Scotland, who in recent months have been subject to harassment and bigotry in their workplace.’
Evidence?
It won’t surprise you to learn that no evidence is offered.
‘We call upon the Library urgently to change course, to make a strong public commitment to ensuring that all staff and visitors are able to access the Library without fear. We condemn the series of decisions by the board and senior leadership that have led to a hostile environment for queer, trans, and allied staff of and visitors to the library.’
So they’re saying that the presence of a single book in the library – one of many thousands of books – makes it impossible for some staff and visitors to enter or use the library without fear. How can that be true? How does it even make sense? Books don’t sit there pulsating and exuding contaminating vapors, you know. Books sit on the shelves or the tables, until someone picks them up and reads them. They are physically inert, and they are also reproducible. Removing one from a library is a symbolic act, not a literal removal of a jug of poison. These goons want the book removed pour encourager les autres.
Co-editor of the book Lucy Hunter Blackburn said: “This letter is an outrageous and unwarranted attack on a major cultural institution. It makes a number of bizarre and unsubstantiated claims about the effect of including the book in the exhibition and unfounded and insulting comments about the book and its writers more generally.”
Like the bizarre and unsubstantiated claim that the book emits poisonous vapors just by being on the shelf.
Oh, but don’t you know, no scientific experiment has been published in a refereed journal testing whether or not books pulsate and exude contaminating vapors. In other words, science has not ruled it out!
Okay, I’ll stop channeling Bhattacharya and RFK jr now, I promise. At least, not until I feel like doing it again.
I hate this so much. This perversion of the concept of “safety” (or “safeness” or whatever) to mean “I tell you to do what I want, and you’d better listen!”
Just move it to the “banned books” display.
Doesn’t the Army have a unit that specializes in unexploded books?
Yeah, but they’re fine with bypassing scientific protocols when pushing puberty blockers, and are fine with ignoring safety with regards to children’s health, so they’re pretty uneven with their “safety” standards.
Ok, ms. Streisand, you convinced me. Now I definitely have to read this book.
Perhaps it’s all a cunning advertising ploy, eh wot?
‘We call upon the Library urgently to change course, to make a strong public commitment to ensuring that all staff and visitors are able to access the Library without fear. We condemn the series of decisions by the board and senior leadership that have led to a hostile environment for queer, trans, and allied staff of and visitors to the library.’
Except they don’t mean that at all. They’ve been pretty chuffed with the hostile environment they’ve been creating for feminists, women, LGB, dissenters of all kinds to trans ideology.