Jo Bartosch on how Amnesty got so horrible:
Its new report, ‘A Growing Threat: The Anti-Rights Movement in the UK’, was recently published and then, like a disfavoured comrade, quietly disappeared from the organisation’s website less than 24 hours later. Before its abrupt vanishing act, Amnesty warned that an ‘anti-rights ecosystem’ was threatening ‘the safety of women and LGBT+ people in the UK’. It identified 117 organisations allegedly working to roll back human rights, lumping together American Christian groups with a patchwork of British feminist, lesbian and gay organisations.
It’s very progressive to tell destructive lies about feminist, lesbian and gay rights organizations.
That ordinary people might simply have had enough of trans tyranny – or concluded for themselves that sex-based rights are worth defending – doesn’t seem to have occurred to Amnesty’s overeducated, underthinking professional whingers. Nor, apparently, has the unfortunate optics of compiling lists of ideological enemies and then silently deleting it.
It’s not just the having enough of trans tyranny…it’s the being expected to repeat an obvious lie as if it were true. It’s the being expected to repeat that particular obvious lie – it’s the expecting women to repeat that obvious lie. It’s the expecting the underdog sex to pretend that some members of the overdog sex are not members of the overdog sex. It’s a very bizarre, warped thing to expect, and it reveals an indifference to women that feels all too New Left circa 1970.
This is the organisation that once presented itself as the conscience of the free world: a champion of dissidents and those who stood up to authoritarian power. Today, Amnesty International resembles the very forces it was created to oppose. It spreads the misinformation it claims to be combating, smears grassroots campaigners as extremists, and casts ordinary people who refuse to deny biological reality as enemies of human rights. The organisation that once defended prisoners of conscience now seems determined to identify a new generation of thoughtcriminals.
No amnesty for women.
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