White fascists, on the other hand, must be listened to at every opportunity. But I'm sure that doesn't mean anything. I'm just a vicious leftist bully trying to silence them and, obviously entirely separately, her.
I always thought Sun Tzu's "Art of War" was a little simplistic and obvious but it turns out yes, you do literally need to tell the Secretary of War "you need to feed your troops and keep them from being wiped out by preventable diseases"
This reporting suggests Bridget Phillipson's legislation will muzzle those of us who want to protest against Far Right speakers who say our Black family are intellectually inferior and our Trans family are all potential sex offenders and are mentally ill.
What an unbelievably terrible Government.
What good would it have done if the civil servants hadn't "hidden" the vetting failure? Would the outcome differ?
Phillipson appointed Mary-Ann Stephenson as EHRC chair *despite* not one but two select committes warning her not to!
This government installs all the wrong people because it wants to.
Jonathan Keir
Harker Starmer
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Not having enough questions about
their good friend, the Prince of Darkness
Praising JK Rowling when asked a question on trans rights is akin to praising Anita Bryant when asked a question gay rights. No money to Stonewall. No Stonewall at Pride. They are already experiencing a funding crisis, and this chairwoman appointment should be their last. Traitors.
Can Stonewall Mark II put trans wars behind it? New chair talks of consensus but she’ll have a tough job unpicking charity’s bullying stance Kathleen Stock In the history of gay rights, there have always been fearless souls willing to face down mobs of pitchfork-wielding fanatics, but perhaps none so brave as Kezia Dugdale, incoming chair of trustees at Stonewall. In an interview with The Guardian this weekend, the former Scottish Labour leader did the unthinkable and praised JK Rowling.
If you had any doubts that Stonewall is a danger to trans people, here is Kathleen Stock praisng them in the Times.
"When the gay rights cause first got going, the ideal was toleration"
Will never forget when my phone was confiscated at secondary school because I got a phone call telling me a family member was in the hospital, and this meant I had caring responsibilities. Told them and school still insisted on taking it off me even though I needed to, you know, do that caring.
This is the crux of the matter for me, everyone knew, and also the defense of 'he wasn't told' requires you to forget how linear time works, and the fact that Starmer had already announced the appointment and put Mr Noncington-Friend to work before they had time to do a check.
As a software engineer, this shit terrifies me to no end. Y'all need to stop turning your homes, the one final bastion of privacy, into willing panopticons.
The Israeli army struck civilians in the Lebanese city of Mayfadoun.
And then, the Israelis double-tapped the medics who arrived onto the scene.
And then, they triple-tapped the next wave of medics.
And then, they did it one more time for good measure.
NEW: Nigel Farage says X is now becoming “a very unpleasant place” due to a rise racist accounts and content Reform leader says that many of his ethnic minority candidates are experiencing huge levels of abuse
BRB, just telling my stockbroker to go big on Hot-Dog man memes
Update on the most moral army in the world. Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews A photo of an Israeli soldier smashing a statue of Jesus Christ with a sledgehammer in southern Lebanon has sparked widespread condemnation. Israeli officials confirmed the image is genuine and 'promised to investigate!
This one seems to have caused panic, and it’s pretty bleak that a picture of a guy smashing a statue of a dude who died two thousand years ago is more internationally disastrous than hundreds of hours of video of civilians being bombed, burned, machine gunned, sniped, evicted and starved.
Handy Guide:
✅ Free Speech: When GCs who had no relation to my University complained to try and get me kicked off my course
❌ Not Free Speech: Exercising one's right to peaceful protest against those advocating your exclusion from society – on the campus you have to live and work in
Her office said the Office for Students (OfS), which regulates universities, had received reports of speakers and lecturers being harassed and blocked for holding gender-critical or religious views, of foreign interference suppressing academic freedoms, and of ideological belief requirements featuring in job advertisements.
The OfS will be able to use the new complaints scheme from September. From April, it will be able to fine universities the greater of £500,000 or 2 per cent of their income, which would amount to millions of pounds for large institutions, for breaches under the Freedom of Speech Act. Ultimately, universities could be deregistered for egregious cases.
Bridget Phillipson will introduce new laws to make it possible for Universities to be fined millions of pounds if they don't silence students who protest bigots invited onto their campuses. It's like the Tories never left office.
One more preemptive strike will heal me... Just one more preemptive strike bro... I swear I'm good after just let me do one more preemptive strike and I promise I'm good dude
Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices
People out there arguing coldly that it should be a crime to try to live as a trans person.
These are dangerous fanatics, and they have the ear of at least 3 UK political parties, and most of the media.
There's no getting around the fact that the UK state wants to keep conversion practices for trans people legal.
The meta glasses have no socially justifiable purpose to exist. They only exist for Mark Zuckerberg's purposes and they can only sell outside of a novelty capacity to people who want to use them for socially hostile purposes.
5/x
Love 2 b trans in Britain, our equalities legislator is the agent of our inequality, our healthcare provider hates providing healthcare to us, and our advocacy organisations advocate for the people funding our removal from society.
putting how useless Kezia is signalling she’s going to be in charge of Stonewall, it’s wild for The Guardian to describe the charity losing half its income for supporting trans rights as if it was something that happened organically and not as part of a massive hate campaign they took part in
I'm pretty sure Kezia comes from a well-intentioned place. And I'm all for good faith engagement with people whose minds have been poisoned against trans people. But this is madness: JK Rowling is a toxic sewer of hate, aligned with fascists, and it's unforgivable for Stonewall to praise her.
"I have huge respect for the genocidaires, and think we need to listen with kindness to their very genuine concerns"
You misspelled “human trafficking”
Expecting to be thrown under the bus as she felt her colleague Michelle Thomson had been a few years previously, she says she warned Sturgeon that “if she took me down, I would take her down with me”. Cherry, “scared and trembling with rage”, told Sturgeon she had a “friendly journalist teed up and ready to go” to expose the fact that her own complaints against senior figures in the party had been ignored by party headquarters. The revelations, she claimed, would expose the first minister as a hypocrite.
anyway this is a pretty interesting little nugget, is it not? transphobic politicians conspiring with friendly journalists to attack political opponents? you'd have been called a conspiracy theorist if you suggested this was obviously going on
Of course we are, and it’s a global movement. We’ve spent the last ten years whistling past the graveyard because a particular type of Sensible Moderate thought they could ride the far right wave and turn it to their advantage. I think we have now proven beyond all doubt that they can’t do that.
my unpopular opinion is that we're better off with Kash running the FBI and we should hope he keeps his job as long as Trump does
JK Rowling: drastic timesss call for drasstic meassuress
Rowling: there's only one way to rekindle interest in harry potter
Rowling hello children
Rowling: would you like to go on a nice train ride
They absolutely want the conversation to be "will this become as a god and judge mankind?!" instead of "what are we doing about all the guys using it to generate CSAM?"
Advertisement, and a way of shifting the conversation from real world harms to their cocaine-fueled delusions of grandeur.