I love the BBC. It gave me everything I have (well, them and ITN who have been amazing as well). But there is an internal civil war going on and this article tells you everything you need to know:
"... we apologise for the failures in our reporting."
https://t.co/A19fuBGoFp
You showed me a map of territory conquered by Muslims mostly a thousand odd years ago.
I have no idea what you think it proves.
Shall I show you a map of the territory of the British Empire at its height?
Is that the game we’re playing?
JK Rowling mansplained, by Sarah Ditum (@sarahditum)
What happened to JK Rowling? If only there were some kind of primary source that could tell us why she became interested in the clash between trans activism and women’s rights — say, a first-person essay.
But alas, the archive is silent. It must be, because why else would two male podcasters have taken it upon themselves to solve this supposed mystery?
This week, the ‘Origin Story’ podcast, hosted by indistinguishable journalists Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey, bravely shouldered the burden of analysing Rowling over the course of two episodes.
Do they succeed? Not remotely. But they do offer a fascinating insight into what happens when a certain kind of progressive man becomes radicalised by Bluesky.
Read more below ⬇️
https://t.co/FQG6I59mww
If anyone wants to deal with this both sides nonsense about the GC wars I’d be grateful as have family.
Bonus if you can find screenshots of us lying about other women’s sex lives or defaming them in the MSM.
The gender-critical movement defenestrating @jk_rowling over a disagreement about pronouns would be like Britain refusing America's help in the Second World War because Americans don't spell "colour" with a U.
the GC ulTRAs are now telling us that @jk_rowling wants to trans the gay away because she isn't interested in pronoun policing private individuals or friendship groups.
THEY'VE LOST THE PLOT
Yes, the people who call themselves 'trans' exist and they deserve exactly the same rights as everyone else, which, fortunately, they already have in the UK. It would rightly be considered discrimination if a person was refused employment, housing or the vote because they identified as trans.
'Trans women are women' is a thought-terminating cliché. Men are not women. That doesn't mean they're not allowed to present themselves however they like, call themselves whatever they like and believe whatever they like about themselves. It means they haven't changed sex.
If we replace the objective, observable characteristic of sex with the unfalsifiable concept of gender identify, women and girls lose, among other things, their right to fair and safe sport and women-only spaces, including changing rooms, prison cells and rape crisis services.
Women and girls are provably more vulnerable to forms of abuse including sexual assault, harassment and voyeurism in mixed-sex spaces. There is no evidence that trans-identified men don't have exactly the same rates of criminal offending as all other men.
Trans people exist. I have no desire for them not to exist; indeed, I wish them safety, happiness and health. However, 'existence' does not, and should not, mean the violation of other people's right to privacy, dignity and freedom of speech, or the reconfiguration of society to indulge a fallacy.
I understand it can be hard for readers halfway around the world to absorb headlines like this over & over. Fatigue for stories of faraway grief is natural.
But every one of these families is shattered, possibly beyond repair. Please do read what my colleagues are documenting.
Spain's Pedro Sanchez:
23 years ago Spain was dragged into the Iraq war because the Spanish PM then wanted to smoke a cigar with Bush, to put his feet on his table. For his ego.
Only 6% of Spaniards agreed with it, 3 million marched. I was one of them.
@rushicrypto It gets extra depressing when you start to imagine how many geniuses were deprived of life due to pointless conflicts around the world. We may already have lost many of those who could have solved problems we now face, or are yet to face.
The most annoying thing about being human on Earth right now is the absolute waste of potential.
Brilliant minds and artists could be solving world hunger, climate change, and ending cancer, etc.
We could house, feed, clothe, and care for everyone.
But instead, we’ve decided to let a handful of asshats become billionaires, start wars, murder and imprison people, and keep the majority in poverty while ruining the climate.
It’s so stupid. The wasted ingenuity hurts to think about.
Jesse Singal writes: "Trans advocacy has, in recent years, adopted radical and unpopular positions that Americans don’t like and aren’t warming up to, and as trans advocacy and trans people have become more salient, so too has the divide between elite orthodoxy on these issues and how most Americans view them."
More people need to be talking about this.
Remember the classified documents case Trump made disappear the second he took office? The one he was facing 40 felony counts for? The one where a judge he appointed buried the Special Counsel’s report?
Well, Washington Republicans handed Congress documents last week to clear his name, and it backfired. BADLY.
Because those documents contained evidence that Trump was showing passengers on his private plane some of the most CLASSIFIED secrets in existence — material so sensitive that only SIX people in the entire U.S. government had clearance to see it.
This isn’t over.
https://t.co/BexYFJ7gT4
There is a soft-racist, noble-savage story we repeatedly tell ourselves: that unlike us modern folk, indigenous people lived in harmony with nature.
The truth is that indigenous people are ecosystem-engineering humans just like the rest of us, neither better nor worse.
It is only thanks to modernity that we are able to discover that some of this engineering can undermine ecosystem services upon which we depend, and then invent new ways to deliver the same benefits of that engineering but without the harms.