Uppity Witch

So shines a good deed in a weary world.

[Uppity Witch @uppity_witch]

Words ≠ violence

[Uppity Witch @uppity_witch]

@SusanCowell I suggest you complete the test

[Uppity Witch @uppity_witch]

@IonaItalia I'll never understand women who fake orgasms

[Jon Erlichman @JonErlichman]

On this day in 1995: Amazon launched.

[Jill Foster @JournalistJill]

‘Can’t believe they’re going after Amnesty’ say the people who went after a rape crisis centre for women.

[Uppity Witch @uppity_witch]

@gabewildau @jessesingal Woke insanity is still happening every day. It's not over until it's actually over, and decent people need to keep calling it out until the mania is utterly extinguished

[Conor Friedersdorf @conor64]

I think the standard should be that when the people who did the damaging thing acknowledge that it was bad and promise to never do it again, *then* it's fair to object to continuing to treat it as a thing that is best discussed to prevent its recurrence.

I'm curious about your more general position on bygone events. Is it fair for intellectuals today to talk about bad things Columbus did in 1492? About slavery circa 1619? The Salem With Trials?

Is it bad form to talk about McCarthyism today?

[Uppity Witch @uppity_witch]

@IonaItalia Yes, being a toxic little twat isn't and shouldn't be illegal

[Uppity Witch @uppity_witch]

@AgathaChocolats The house fell in upon itself

[Uppity Witch @uppity_witch]

@Grimezsz It might be part of your personal journey to learn that people like her aren't as adorable & charming as you think. She's performing for your attention and love but what she needs is to mature into a responsible adult. I know this sounds unspeakably dull, but it's just reality

[Nicole Lampert @nicolelampert]

Amnesty was once a force for good.
This week it caused fury by painting feminists as dangerous. That’s on top of changing the definitions of apartheid and genocide to attack Israel.
I spoke to two insiders about how and why it became obsessed with the omnicause. The answer was you have to follow the fashion to get the funding.
True humanitarian issues have gone out the window.

As Molly Malekar, former head of the Israel branch told me: “I clearly recall that sections in Western Europe and the USA saying we were losing ground and membership because we were behind others in progressive circles who were criticising Israel.”
“Until then, Amnesty had held to its core values of judging things on international and humanitarian laws, but slowly I saw how the line was being blurred as the work became more politicised and standards went down.
“The organisation became more and more led by political ideologies such as theories around colonialism and seeing everything through the lens of the victim vs the oppressor. Younger people were joining from universities who were imbued with these political theories in which Israel is only ever viewed as an oppressor.”

Special thanks to @iseult @DanielleHaas01 who has done an incredible job holding NGO’s to account on antisemitism with this report:

https://t.co/SRfvzeT0yf

Gift link below 👇🏼

[Uppity Witch @uppity_witch]

@joshshepperd I think on some level you know that this critique is correct, but you can't bring yourself to admit it. Your ideological buy-in is total.

[Uppity Witch @uppity_witch]

@shadihamid @mattyglesias "Holding the line on Palestine" is most definitely not post-woke

[Uppity Witch @uppity_witch]

@SabrinaSwenso11 @HistoryBoomer Jesus luv! Not all women can get pregnant but only women can get pregnant. Clear enough?

[Uppity Witch @uppity_witch]

They're forever ready to throw away their dignity in service of the Next Current Thing

[Coddled Affluent Professional @feelsdesperate]

Whether someone gets swept away by a moral mania is a good test of their character and is indicative of whether they should be trusted with a say in important matters in the future.

[The Irish Politics Newsletter @IrishPoliticsNL]

This is shocking.
At an EU Foreign Affairs Committee meeting, Lynn Boylan lamented that it was “a pity we can’t use our own language.” When it was pointed out that she could, in fact, speak Irish, she backtracked almost instantly: "I wasn’t prepared, so I’ll use English."

[Uppity Witch @uppity_witch]

@DuffyEricka @ukvillafan Care to tell us your "source" on this?

[Uppity Witch @uppity_witch]

@ukvillafan @DuffyEricka @NormyWolf It's just some made up bullshit that they all got from the same activist screed. Not sure which one, but honestly who cares?

[The Free Press @TheFP]

‘Right-wing governments’ aren’t the reason Egypt and Turkey rejected gay travelers. But many Westerners insist that every foreign vice is caused by colonialism, writes Douglas Murray. https://t.co/DsS5LiYE0u

[Uppity Witch @uppity_witch]

@DuffyEricka @peterjukes @ukvillafan This is utter bullshit

[Uppity Witch @uppity_witch]

@peterjukes @ukvillafan This issue has been extremely well litigated by GC feminists. Perhaps you should defer to them and educate yourself. Can I recommend 'Material Girls' by Dr Kathleen Stock and 'Gender Critical Feminism' by Dr Holly Lawford-Smith as an excellent starting point.