Which party holds the wack belief and which party holds the other kind?
Ahh, I see.
So it's your word against the 99% scientific consensus on the existence and validity of trans people.
Your denial of trans existence is akin to the existence of a flat earth, or Earth being the center of the universe.
— MrTARDIS (@TrilbeeReviews) August 25, 2021
Other way around, I think you’ll find.… Read the rest
Our what?
Maryam Monsef just referred to the Taliban as “our brothers” pic.twitter.com/KEL5UYa3HO
— Bryan Passifiume (@BryanPassifiume) August 25, 2021
Who is she? Canada’s Minister for Women and Gender Equality.
She's the Minister for Women and Gender Equality https://t.co/tmI4jWgluQ
— Lorrie Goldstein (@sunlorrie) August 25, 2021
So, yeah…our brothers?
I think not.
Updating to add: see Sastra’s comment and Seanna’s for a better understanding.… Read the rest
So why is Florida is experiencing its worst surge now, 18 months into the pandemic, when the vaccines are widely available?
In some ways, what’s happening in Florida is a microcosm of the current surge across America: a middling vaccination rate has collided with a more contagious version of the virus. And it’s doing so in a state where political leaders continue to insist people should act as though the pandemic is over — even as more people are dying every day than at any point in the past year.
It’s the “when in doubt, take the reckless approach” problem.
… Read the restDeSantis, who has clear presidential aspirations in 2024, has positioned himself and his state’s
Guardian columnist Zoe Williams also dislikes John Cleese, it seems.
[I]t’s hard to find out when John Cleese was last funny. Some people think he had some moderately amusing lines in A Fish Called Wanda (1988). There was a period in the 2010s when he had an idiosyncratic vendetta and went around town saying “Michael Palin’s travel show” and then yawning, which a small niche found rather tickling.
Does that actually matter? He did some brilliant Being Funny before the 2010s, which thanks to technology we can still benefit from. Isn’t that good enough?
… Read the restIt would be fair to say it’s not a recent body of comic work that has recommended Cleese for a Channel 4 show about “cancel
Does “with force” mean “with force”?
Noted, but this group threatened the SPCC @_Lisa_Townsend with violence. Can you confirm that you will be investigating Pride in Surrey? pic.twitter.com/kpXKenCeOx
— SaintCirce (@SaintCirce) August 25, 2021
What views? The usual.
Surrey’s Police and Crime Commissioner has been accused of being transphobic but defended by refuge organisers for women after she criticised LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall.
The campaign group’s vision is that people born male who identify as women should be able to attend women’s prisons and crisis centres, whether or not they have begun to transition.
Attend? One doesn’t “attend” prisons, as if they were meetings of the book group, one is locked up in them, aka imprisoned. That’s part of the … Read the rest
Simon Callow is fed up with the tyranny.
Simon Callow, the actor and veteran gay rights campaigner, has condemned the “strange turn to the tyrannical” taken by Stonewall on self-identification for transgender people.
Callow, who was involved in the anti-government protests that led to the foundation of Stonewall in 1989, said an “extraordinarily unproductive militancy” now surrounded its position. This uncompromising mood risked infringing women’s rights and could put pressure on young gay people to transition, he said, and it was a sign of the times that he felt nervous about the reaction he would stir up, simply for expressing his views.
The uncompromising mood [or rather stance, approach, method] emphatically already does infringe on women’s rights, including … Read the rest
FEMINIST DISSENT STANDS IN SOLIDARITY WITH AFGHAN WOMEN AND WITH ALL THOSE FIGHTING FUNDAMENTALISM
… Read the restFeminist Dissent sees fundamentalist movements as modern political movements of the far right which use religion to exercise authoritarian control, especially over women. The Taliban was never seen by us as simply a form of medievalist Pashtun tribalism, and certainly not as a liberation movement. The dominant views from the ‘anti-imperialist left’, Western ‘peace’ movements, Western governments and counter-terror establishments converge in ways that both stereotype and sanitise the Taliban.
…
The British Chief of Defence Staff Nick Carter’s claim that the Taliban want an ‘inclusive’ Afghanistan builds on the convenient myth that the Taliban are merely ‘tribal’, romantic men of honour who will keep order
Ah yes certainly, I can’t see any problem with that. Bomber wants recognition of his new idenniny and oh yes a shorter sentence please.
… Read the restThe militia leader convicted of masterminding the bombing of a Minnesota mosque is asking a judge to legally acknowledge her transgender identity.
Emily Claire Hari was previously known as Michael Hari, who was found guilty last year of civil rights and hate crime charges related to the bombing of the Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center in Bloomington in August 2017.
During the trial, prosecutors said Hari was fueled by a hatred of Muslims when he devised a plan to pipe bomb the building during morning prayers. While no one was hurt in the bombing, it spread
According to her profile this person does standup comedy.
https://twitter.com/kathbarbadoro/status/1430018992014598144Entire thing? No verbal humor? No ideas, just physical shtick?
Funny how he has no interest in addressing the censorious ways of the people who put millions of dollars into trying to "cancel" Life of Brian, and instead sides uncritically with them in favor of anti-trans bigotry.
— Michael 'The CIA's Milli Vanilli' Marquis Albright (@ChicagoMSTie) August 24, 2021
No interest?
Watch and listen to this whole debate if you are actually interested in learning something about John Cleese (and Monthy Python), freedom of expression, religion, social history and comedy.https://t.co/2CadoUTlZ8
— Lizzie (@lizzbag) August 24, 2021
That time I went to a bookstore event with Michael Palin someone asked … Read the rest
Our Jolyon walks into these things.
Definitely what this debate needs: another privately educated elderly cis white person with a series on a national broadcaster to complain about cancel culture. https://t.co/ozvgCNMnZp
— Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) August 24, 2021
Erm…Jolyon Maugham is white and “cis” and not all that young and – the one he carefully didn’t mention – he’s a man. (He didn’t mention it because mentioning it would remind people that women don’t have male privilege.) He’s not as poshly educated as Cleese, I’ll give him that – but then he’s not as clever, either.
To sum up, Jolyon Maugham is sneering at John Cleese for having kinds of privilege that Maugham himself mostly shares. It’s almost as if … Read the rest
Originally a comment by Bjarte Foshaug on What genocide is and is not.
Hitler didn’t wipe out 6 million Jews by calling them something else, he wiped them out by murdering them.
Exactly, it’s roughly analogous to arguing that:
Denying the existence of God
≈ denying that there’s such a thing as “God’s chosen people”
≈ denying the existence of that which the Jews are
≈ denying the existence of Jews
≈ envisioning a world in which Jews don’t exist
≈ advocating genocide.
Therefore atheism is just the Holocaust
I have never heard a single Jew make such an argument. If your kind has been murdered by the millions, you don’t have to resort to this kind of language-games … Read the rest
Well this is horrible news.
James Underdown of CFI (the Center for Inquiry):
… Read the restTom Flynn, Giant of American Freethought, Has Died at Age 66
The world has lost a towering figure of American freethought, a man who was both on the cutting edge of secular humanist thought, as well as the foremost caretaker of its rich history. The entire Center for Inquiry family is anguished by the sudden and unexpected death of our colleague, teacher, and friend Tom Flynn at age 66.
Tom held numerous leadership roles during his more than thirty years with the Center for Inquiry, most recently as editor of Free Inquiry magazine, director of the Robert Green Ingersoll Birthplace Museum and the Freethought Trail, and former
Woman who calls herself “transmasculine” gets all shaky-like when menstrual products say “for women” on the label. (If they do – I have my doubts that anyone who needs menstrual products also needs to be told at the point of sale that they’re for women.) Narcissism forevaaaaaaaaa!
My period has never triggered feelings of gender dysphoria as a trans masculine person, but the way people talk about menstruation and frame it as a “women’s issue” makes me experience feelings of dread and discomfort.
Really? It makes her do that? Or she does it because she’s conditioned herself to think she’s supposed to, by being exposed to 50 million stupid articles and tweets and videos like this. They’re all conditioning each … Read the rest
More from the pyramid:
https://twitter.com/LtHarker/status/1429442555767246855What is this imagined community that gender-skeptics defend?
Women, for one. Are women “imagined”? No. Women are real. I don’t refer to us as a “community” because I think that word is much overused and also manipulative (so in that sense I kind of understand the “imagined community” thing), but that doesn’t mean the word “women” doesn’t name a real category of people. Do we defend women? Sure. For more see: feminism, passim.
https://twitter.com/LtHarker/status/1429444893986852866 https://twitter.com/LtHarker/status/1429448406401835010This is the usual warping of the word “existence” – pretending that skepticism about a label=genocide. Hitler didn’t wipe out 6 million Jews by calling them something else, he wiped them out by murdering them. There’s a difference.
It can … Read the rest
Stark truth.
In November 1923, Hitler’s attempted coup failed. But no one was held accountable. Ten years later, he took over Germany.
Trump’s January 2021 coup failed. But 7 months later, Trump faces no consequences, and his co-conspirators are still in Congress.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) August 22, 2021
It’s not even quite true that no one was held accountable – Hitler was sentenced to prison and served several months, during which he wrote Mein Kampf. So…
We’re in a race between global hotting and a fascist coup.… Read the rest
The FDA tells us Why You Should Not Use Ivermectin to Treat or Prevent COVID-19
First, snapshots.
On the left: no, not for you. On the right: yes, for you.
To be clear: 1: horse. 2: person. Horses take medication designed for horses, persons take medication designed for persons. Don’t swap between, don’t mix & match.
The FDA’s job is to carefully evaluate the scientific data on a drug to be sure that it is both safe and effective for a particular use, and then to decide whether or not to approve it. Using any treatment for COVID-19 that’s not approved or authorized by the FDA, unless part of a clinical trial, can cause serious harm.
The FDA’s job, please … Read the rest
Hmm.
My notifications are a sight to behold. This anti-trans stuff is becoming quite extremist, and I don't use words like that lightly. It's not just an online thing – going to a transwoman's place of work and distributing anti-trans literature there is genuinely quite frightening.
— Captain Haggerty (@AngelaHaggerty) August 23, 2021
Wait. They didn’t go to “a transwoman’s place of work” – they went to a pub, a well known, popular, centrally located pub. They went to a pub, to get food and drinks. I think it’s extremely unlikely they knew it was “a transwoman’s place of work” because why would they? Why would anyone?
And the literature isn’t “anti-trans,” it’s pro-feminism and pro-reality. The gender critical view … Read the rest
The Times reports on the “we don’t allow feminist women in our pub” story:
A leading pub chain has been dragged into a transphobia row after police were called to a city-centre pub when bar staff complained of feeling “threatened” by the presence of a group of campaigners who oppose extending women’s rights to transgender people.
Yet another bad lede. Why can’t reporters write decent first sentences? Is it part of their contract not to, or what?
Also a factual mistake, the campaigners don’t “oppose extending women’s rights to transgender people,” they don’t believe that men are women and they of course opposed extending women’s rights to men, on the grounds that it’s women who need them, not men.
… Read the restA
Perfect example of the frenzied dangerous rhetorical overkill.
https://twitter.com/LtHarker/status/1429441961094631429To violence. What violence? In what way did they attempt to “escalate to violence”? BE SPECIFIC.… Read the rest
