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Despicable TERF JK Rowling is nominated for literary award for transphobic essay by the BBC.
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I honestly don't get it. The US is extremely bigoted but culturally seems far less culturally up in arms, at least politically, about trans issues. Hell neil gorsuch was like "yeah US law protects them" last term and nobody really cared on the bigoted right.
not to downplay real problems in the US, but the UK has this weird beef.
guess it's time to give to mermaids again...
as a lawyer, yes! just fucking say what you mean. JK can just shorten everything to: "I don't like trans people"
Hiding her bigotry by pretending to be incapable of performing basic research, sooo brave. She's a chickenshit coward of a bigot and so is the gutless weasel who nominated her for this shit. No opinion on the issue my ass, there's no other reason to nominate a blog post that's poorly sourced and structured.
One of the issues, as far as I see it, is that these screeds have the veneer of intellectualism. They're not 'I don't like trans people' but attempt to re-contextualise more progressive policy and ideas such as 'women need safe spaces from men' and then attempt to flip that script by then refusing to accept that trans women are also women. Then, to justify this line of argument, they have to make trans women seem dangerous, usually by fixating on utterly weird things such as public restrooms. There's also the sleight-of-hand of pretending as though the criticism of them is wholly or even mostly misogynistic and thus rarely engage with any of the counter-arguments presented to them by instead suggesting the majority of their critics just 'hate women.'
What this basically means is that it's framed as though the 'progressive' or 'left wing' thing to do in these situations is to protect women from; a) invasions into their spaces and; b) the misogynistic abuse they face when they're 'brave' enough to speak out. They don't feel like they're attacking vulnerable people, they feel like they're defending them.
As for the 'why is it mainly British feminists' its largely down to the differences between how American and British feminism have evolved throughout the years, this article is a fantastic read.
Damn, and that list of authors who endorsed it and then then backtracked after being called out for it already used up the "aw gee shucks I never actually read this thing I co-signed, sorry guys" excuse. The nominator will have to think of a new one.
Hitler wrote Mein Kampf. Should we applaud his bravery too? Fuck outta here...
I have no idea who this self-serving wanker who wrote this is, but you bet your arse I'm complaining. If they're employed by the BBC I don't want any of my license money paying this dickhead a salary.
he eloquently, in brilliant german prose, told us his beef with the jews
Godwin level 9001!
I 100% agree.
Fuck this attitude of putting the agressor into the role of the victim.
I'm not endorsing any of the positions taken, but he did literally get attacked by antifa members. Really makes you think.
Is there a spell that can make JK Rowling go fuck herself into the sunset to never be seen again?
Really worth remembering that Rowling didn't say a single word about Black Lives Matter this year, but she felt the need to drop her transphobic diary entry right at the start of pride month. Just so telling of her character that in 2020, trans women having rights is the thing the white billionaire thinks is the real injustice facing the world.
I say trans women because she only expressed fear about women while using trans men as props to project her own experiences onto. Of course that's also gross and indicative of a person who does not really view other people as fully realized individuals in their own right so much as extensions of her own ego.
I say trans women because she only expressed fear about women while using trans men as props to project her own experiences onto. Of course that's also gross and indicative of a person who does not really view other people as fully realized individuals in their own right so much as extensions of her own ego.
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The majority of the BBC is good, but seems there are some shitheads in the Complaints Dept. too!
The majority of the BBC is good, but seems there are some shitheads in the Complaints Dept. too!
JK Rowling is just at a stage where she can say anything and people will defend it and defend her. Too many people also dismiss this as being because she wrote children's books that a lot of people have fond memories and connections to, it's not. It's because the UK, as demonstrated by the BBC stock complaints response, has a transphobia issue.
I think it's more that bigots have found safety in numbers. They have been legitimised via right-wing world leaders, the rise of fascism, public figures like Rowling proudly displaying it.
These things are being pushed as a simple "difference of opinion" by so many people that it's emboldening a lot of anti-progress rhetoric.
These things are being pushed as a simple "difference of opinion" by so many people that it's emboldening a lot of anti-progress rhetoric.
The "viewpoint" she's expressing is "trans people are delusional and sinister" so... brave isn't really the word I'd pick.
This whole thing is a really obvious dogwhistle to transphobes. Fuck the BBC for trying justify it, even if they're just trying to cover their own asses.
Yep, it's ridiculous and very telling. Her article isn't written in any particularly noteworthy way and as such it's impossible to disconnect this nomination for the 'writing' from an endorsement of the content. The author's description of her only reaffirms that message. The line
is particularly telling about the author's view; clearly writing a hateful transphobic essay is something the author has 'no view' on yet criticising an author for those hateful views is something the author does take issue with, blatantly ignoring the abusive content of Rowling's essay.
The author trying to repeatedly emphasise they don't endorse the content is a very thin veil when the rest of their piece makes their view very clear.
User Banned (Permanent): Downplaying Bigotry
Enoch Powell was extremely intelligent or even brilliant. He achieved a double starred First in classics and he was full professor at 25.
He spoke a lot of languages including fluent Urdu, and held Indian culture in great respect.
Just because he started playing the race card later in life doesn't mean that everything he said/wrote must be discarded.
Yeah this. For someone wanting to award "brave" rhetoric, that commentary is ridiculously transparent and hypocritical.
Mask off for the BBC, insomuch it was wearing any mask at this point.
Fuck Rowling and fuck BBC. Can't be said enough times.
Fine people, both sides, meet in the middle, etc.
Fuck Rowling and fuck BBC. Can't be said enough times.
Fine people, both sides, meet in the middle, etc.
Well, "I hate trans people" has even less syllables and is more accurate. Or adding a couple more sillables for even more accuracy, "I hate and fear trans people".
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Bro seriously? The article makes reference to his most famously racist speech. Like it's explicitly the quality of his racist rhetoric he's being praised for here.
Maybe you should submit a complaint about the complaint response. lol.
Nothing he has said is a revelation only made by him, so I'd look for someone else who has made similar statements instead of signal boosting such a shitty person.
Are you fucking kidding me? He was a white nationalist. Who cares if he was "intelligent?"
No, to be clear I think he made reprehensible choices. I was defending the authors right to quote him.
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He very clearly was not a Nazi. He volunteered to fight against the Nazi's in ww2. He did not believe in inherent superiority /inferiority of races. He certainly wasn't a fascist, his views on things like homosexuality and the death penalty were liberal for the time.
He was most definitely anti-immigration. It is debated whether he was actually racist. Personally I think he was racist.
Besides, I was not defending Enoch Powell (my family are immigrants), I was defending the authors choice to quote him. He was a very significant figure in British politics.