Sally Rooney will now make a few million less from her romance novels, having promised their UK profits to a proscribed terrorist organisation. Lucy Connolly lost two years of freedom for a tweet she quickly deleted. These things are not the same.
Many on the right dismiss the Sally Rooney case as a free speech issue because she “broke the law by supporting/funding Palestine Action, a proscribed group”. Funny the same argument was not made in relation to, say, Lucy Connolly who also “broke the law” (and pleaded guilty). 1/
It may be overkill to proscribe Palestine Action as terrorists. But Sally Rooney could simply not give the profits from her books to it & problem solved. Contrast to Salman Rushdie, who was nearly killed for his books. That's courage, in contrast to Rooney's wannabe martyrdom
The left-wing extremist who is accused of murdering my colleague Ann Widdecombe and targeting my friend Nigel Farage "held an extreme left-wing mindset".
Now ask yourself:
Where is the big national debate about left-wing extremism?
Where are the BBC documentaries and podcasts about left-wing extremism?
Where are the calls to warn children in schools and universities about left-wing extremism?
Where are the government 'counter-terror units' stating that if you read, say, Karl Marx or Antonio Gramsci then you are "on a pathway to terror"?
Where are the think-tanks producing major research reports on left-wing extremism and its followers?
Where are the multi-million pound research grants going to academics who investigate left-wing terror?
If it was far-right we all know what would happen. Wall to wall blanket coverage, analysis, and debate.
Does anybody else notice the silence?
I am very much opposed to banning books, but the detail that people seem to be missing in the Sally Rooney story is that all she needs to do is not donate the proceeds to a terrorist organization. Then her books will no longer be considered a vehicle for funding terrorism.
This peaceful protest has been so damaging to the gender extremists that it's only a matter of time until they:
A) Paint the male as a victim
B) Get violent
Be advised. And, as always, keep comments directed at ADULTS. All these kids are wrapped up in this because of the bad decisions of adults.
Gays are NOT an alphabet soup.
Phillip speaks for so many gay people like me who are SICK and TIRED of being associated with a group of far left lunatics who support drugging tomboy girls and camp boys, men in women’s rape crisis centres and women’s sports!
#GayNotQueer#BBUK
Who knows how many women with "trans" identitites die from pulmonary embolisms when their blood thickens due to injecting male levels of testosterone which their female bodies are not made to handle?
Seems it is commonly misdiagnosed. Maybe @TTExulansic knows more.
The figures for puberty blockers from New Zealand are extraordinary. At its height there were over 12 initiations per month (population 5 million). Now with the puberty blocker ban (that is currently in a complicated position) there are 4 initiations per month
The 19-year-old white supremacist planning a mass murder at a Hindu temple in Illinois was transgender.
NBC News Chicago refers to him throughout the story as a male and by he/him pronouns while noting that he "receives hormone injections for gender transition."
Meanwhile, Canadian newspapers continue to refer to both the 18-year old man who murdered eight people in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia and the US-based male charged as his co-conspirator solely as women, honoring the preferred pronouns of both murderer and co-conspirator, with no reference to their sex or their trans identification.
All of these people are men.
Dear @Nike
Those incredibly brave girls from Camas high school need you to stand up for them!! They’re all wearing your logo!. Come on NIKE! Be brave! I double dog dare you. You can’t turn down a double dog dare! Right @xx_xyathletics ?
Interesting to see longtime JK Rowling defenders currently revelling in Sally Rooney’s writing career being destroyed.
Do these people believe women should have their writing careers cancelled as a result of their taking a certain stance on an issue, or not?