Charlie Funtan 🎗️

Adult Human Male. Father of 3 brilliant Jewish women. Social Worker for 35 years & still learning. Birds, bass, and Somerset CCC. Wary of the madness of crowds.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

As another man who once worked with me declares himself saddened by my beliefs on gender and sex, I thought it might be useful to compile a list for handy reference. Which of the following do you imagine makes actors and directors who aren’t involved with the HBO reboot of Harry Potter so miserable?

Is it my belief that women and girls should have their own public changing rooms and bathrooms?

That women should retain female-only rape crisis centres?

That men don’t belong in women’s sport?

That female prisoners shouldn’t be incarcerated with violent men and male sex offenders?

That women should remain a protected class in law, because they have sex-specific needs and issues?

That language should reflect reality rather than ideological jargon, especially in a medical context?

That women shouldn’t be harassed, persecuted or fired for refusing to pretend humans can change sex?

That women should not be threatened with violence and rape when they assert their rights?

That freedom of speech and belief are essential to a pluralistic democratic society?

That troubled minors, especially those who are gay, autistic and trauma-experienced, should be given mental health support instead of irreversible surgeries and drug treatments on non-existent evidence of benefit?

That gay people shouldn’t be pressured to include the opposite sex in their dating pools, nor should they be smeared as ‘genital fetishists’ when they don’t?

That cross-dressing heterosexual male fetishists aren’t actually oppressed, but having the time of their lives piggybacking off gender identity ideology?

That said ideology, and the privileged, blinkered fools pushing it because they suffer zero consequences themselves, have done more damage to the political left’s credibility than Trump and Farage could have achieved in a century?

Let me have your thoughts.

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

As usual, @JohnHMcWhorter ably analyzes this scandal, including (as you might expect) an analysis of his communicative style.

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

Cambridge - do the faculty of education's problems go much deeper than jason Arday?
Meet Farah Ahmed, Jason Arday’s colleague https://t.co/ptHQiIC1F0

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

On This Day — August 11, 1945

Three months after Hitler’s defeat, a Polish mob tried to finish what the Nazis started.

It was Shabbat morning in Kraków. Jews who had just survived Auschwitz were praying in the Kupa Synagogue.

A blood libel rumor exploded through the streets: the familiar lie that Jews were kidnapping and killing Polish children.

The crowd smashed into the synagogue, dragged the survivors into the street, beat them, trampled the Torah scrolls, and set the building on fire. Violence spilled into Jewish homes. Polish policemen and soldiers joined in.

Róża Berger, 56, an Auschwitz survivor, was shot dead through the closed door of her apartment.

Sadly, this was one of many similar incidents Jewish survivors faced in Europe after the Holocaust; it would come to a climax a year later in Kielce.

The gas chambers were silent.
The hatred was not.

The Jews of Europe still had nowhere to go.
Until Israel was reborn three years later.
Today, Jews always have somewhere to go.

[Barbara Rich @BarbaraRich_law]

@Barristerblog The Good Law Project operates in a regulatory lacuna. It isn’t a charity, and it isn’t a regulated legal entity. No-one regulates litigation crowdfunding as an activity. It’s owned by a non-charitable purpose trust in Jersey and Maugham is the single individual in control of it

[Hamas Atrocities @HamasAtrocities]

50 YEARS AGO IN LEBANON

Fifty years have passed since this photo was taken. Palestinian terrorists invaded the Lebanese Christian Maronite town of Damour and massacred 582 Christian civilians.

“It was an apocalypse,” said a priest who survived the massacre.

“They arrived in the thousands, shouting ‘Allahu Akbar! Let’s attack them for the Arabs, let’s offer a holocaust to Mohammed,’ while they were massacring everyone, men, women, and children.”

The men were lined up against the walls of their houses and shot dead.

The women were tortured and gang-raped.

Newborn babies were killed with a shot to the back of the head.

Pregnant women were subjected to forced abortions.

This is just one of the many massacres committed against Christians by the Palestinians. In this way, Muslims became the majority in Lebanon.

[Hadley Freeman @HadleyFreeman]

"Arday’s academic focus was not on learning new things and fashioning new ways of processing existence but on criticizing others’ morals. This is not intellection but advocacy, and that is frankly much easier than thinking"

[Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON* @EsotericCD]

John McWhorter's disgust is palpable in this piece about Jason Arday. One of the most satisfying vivisections I've yet read on the topic - McWhorter gets it ALL out onto the page, bitingly. https://t.co/14YkxE9EsS

[Professor Alice Sullivan @ProfAliceS]

Jason Arday and his co-author Chantelle Lewis gave a keynote at the 2024 European Sociological Association conference.

It is embarrassing to listen to.

It's easy for serious social scientists to protest that we have no connection with this kind of thing. But isn't it time to start talking about what we can do about standards in sociology?

https://t.co/h2WoLO9khp

[Dr. Brian L. Cox @BrianCox_RLTW]

It looks like a transnational terrorist group invaded a sovereign country almost 3 years ago now and provoked a large-scale armed conflict by committing one of the most horrific atrocities in living memory then chose to deliberately hide & fight among its own civilian population.

[Oren Barsky @orenbarsky]

Israel deserves the biggest apology in history.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

No Jews, No News

[Aɴᴛ @AntSpeaks]

There has been no final, legally binding international court judgment concluding that genocide has been committed in Gaza.

There is also no credible footage whatsoever of the IDF committing deliberate mass murder.

What actually has been very well documented in Gaza, with plenty of footage to support it, is Hamas carrying out public executions, Gazans parading the dead bodies of Israelis through the streets, Gazans openly stating that they want their children to be sacrificed as "martyrs", and footage of Israeli hostages who, when released, looked like victims of the Holocaust in WWII.

Finally, showing footage of destroyed buildings doesn't, by any definition, automatically translate to "genocide". It's an intellectually lazy use of "shock factor" to convince the gullible to swallow your skewed narrative.

[Jake Wallis Simons @JakeWSimons]

So important

[Kara Jesella @karajesella]

Well of course. I’ve got an entire section on whiteness studies in “Feminist Antisemitism” if you would like to delve deeper into the history of this particular academic insanity.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Bottom line: they’ve spent three years shrieking about genocide, backed by academic fraud. Now it’s collapsing, they’re throwing smoke to cover tracks.

The Lancet papers claiming hundreds of thousands dead, the IPC and UN panels loaded with anti-Israel activists claiming famine (now conclusively disproven) and genocide, made-up testimony and faked x-rays by doctors taken to Gaza by a charity connected to an actual terror group, the staged vids, AI images and beheaded doll photos put out by Hamas themselves… all bullshit. All of it. The “Gaza genocide” is the greatest hoax of all time, enabled by social media, antisemitism, and gullibility.

Now we know that the population of Gaza *increased* since the war began and a comparatively tiny proportion of non-combatants died. What you are seeing now from people like Mehdi is nothing but rhetorical sleight of hand to keep the hoax going, even as it falls apart.

[Natasha Hausdorff @HausdorffMedia]

Many of us have been calling out the starvation libel and famine hoax for years. Now it has further and utterly unravelled on the basis of the UN’s own data.

When will the UN representatives and bodies finally be held to account for propagating these falsehoods that put Jews around the world at risk and undermine the credibility of these international institutions?

[Charlie Funtan 🎗️ @HalfSimpleton]

@PaulEmbery @zeno001 Among this strong field of fantasies, is the fact that no known species of eagles has a song. They have calls, which couldn’t be described as pleasant.

[Charlie Funtan 🎗️ @HalfSimpleton]

@FoolishS2051 @MForstater @judge148 I would feel very uncomfortable with this woman in the same facility as me. If she chooses to present as a tiny, faux man and is uncomfortable using women’s facilities, that’s her problem only.

[John McWhorter @JohnHMcWhorter]

Read this man's resignation letter and witness a delusion, megalomania, and dimness paralleled in public figures today only by America's President.

Apparently the letter is AI. But from all we have learned about his "scholarship," of course he was incapable of composing intelligent prose himself.

The whites who elevated Arday think Black people are dumb. And yes, it could have happened here.

Yes, I am leaving some stuff unsaid.

https://t.co/u4MRanUSy7