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Fascinating case of UK hate speech laws: @Glinner celebrates when alt-right figures are fined by courts for their speech. But @Glinner is fanatical about arguing trans women aren't women; an LGBT activist, @DrAdrianHarrop, reported @Glinner to the police & they interrogated him:
The full article is here, and it really shows how hate speech laws in Europe are used not just to suppress speech but even to criminalize it to the point where police investigate people for opinions they tweet. thestranger.com/slog/2018/12/2…
This was probably the worst case of UK hate speech laws: a Muslim teenager was charged with multiple felonies, including *treason*, for posting on Facebook that he didn't have sympathy for British troops who died in Afghanistan because the war was immoral theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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NBC and MSNBC Blamed Russia for Using “Sophisticated Microwaves” to Cause “Brain Injuries” in U.S. “Diplomats” in Cuba. The Culprits Were Likely Crickets. theintercept.com/2019/01/07/nbc…
NBC and MSNBC repeatedly put @KenDilanianNBC all over the air to do what he does - mindlessly repeat what @CIA tells him to say - to state that Russia attacked US diplomats in Cuba with microwaves. The likely culprit was this pretty Caribbean male cricket theintercept.com/2019/01/07/nbc…
It's important to note these new scientific findings, as well as the prior statements from numerous neurological experts, don't dispositively prove that NBC story was false. They just raise very serious doubts. It's *possible* these alarming things happened in the Cuba incident:
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Yes, the US press is so brave & free - when it comes to foreign leaders. Remember when, after 9/11, all TV networks obeyed the government's orders not to broadcast video of Osama bin Laden explaining the attack on the ground he'd included coded messages to activate sleeper cells?
US media obeyed the government's orders to impose a blackout on Al Qaeda explaining their motives for the 9/11 attack (US violence & interference in the Muslim world), which is what let @DavidFrum & friends create the bullshit "they-hate-us-for-our-freedom" fairy tales.
Then there was that time in 2004 when NYT discovered Bush/Cheney was *illegally* eavesdropping on Americans, but sat on the story upon the orders of the WH, only to publish it *after* Bush's win because Jim Risen was going to break the story in his book theintercept.com/2018/01/03/my-…
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Now that Warren emphatically supported Trump's decision to withdraw troops from Syria & Afghanistan - ignoring @Maddow's desperate bait to bash Trump & instead condemned Endless War - the silence on these issues of Sanders (&, to a lesser extent, @AOC) becomes harder to maintain:
I emailed Sanders' office on Dec 26 to ask his view on Syria troop withdraw - was told they were discussing it but he didn't yet have a position. As I said, people are entitled to time to address complex matters, but these debates are central & ongoing silence is hard to justify.
To be clear, the quote I got when I emailed Sanders' office on Dec 26 about Syria troop withdrawal was this: "We’ve been discussing but he hasn’t made a statement yet." They're now suggesting this doesn't mean he has no position, just that he hasn't publicly expressed one yet.
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In honour of Trans Remembrance Day, a brief fact-check of a particularly inaccurate thread musing about trans people's problems as perhaps rooted in just their mental health problems.
Research on trans suicidality proves otherwise, instead showing that suicidality among trans people varies based on the life conditions many trans people are subjected to. #LGBT #canqueer
In this study, those who experienced transphobic physical or sexual violence were 7 x more likely to have attempted suicide within the past year
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Two days ago I wrote an article for @gaystarnews about the meteoric rise in anti-transgender hate in the UK ➡️ gaystarnews.com/article/is-the…

Today, The Sunday Times published its most dehumanising transphobic article yet! 😕
Today’s article in The Sunday Times is just the tip of the iceberg in what has become a relentless barrage of unending transphobic, trans-hostile and insidiously undermining articles published over the last 18 months!😕
The Times has systematically and repeatedly painted a picture of trans people as a “lobby” group of dogmatic and threatening “activists” who have some sort of unlimited power to “demand” rights of politicians and policy makers.

The truth is far from this.
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Right then.

And so, finally, I get to turn my attention to the shambles that is the #FairPlay4Women guidance.

Hooray!!!

I'll be breaking up the posting times of this, so the whole thing will likely take a couple of hours to come through.

Stay awhile, and listen

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But before we dive into the nitty gritty of what’s wrong with it (everything), let’s step back a bit and look at the big picture here. This is a consultation that is set up to look at the issue of making it easier for trans and intersex people to get a GRC to correct...

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, or adjust, the initial info recorded on their birth certificate when it was first issued. That would be ALL trans and intersex people(and before you chime in with your usual bullshit, do you know what it is that actual intersex organisations say about trans people...

3/n
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No one who lived through the Bush2 admin, from the stolen 2000 election to the torture, war crimes, two wars we are STILL in, millions of maimed Americans, brutal attacks on women & #LGBT "misses" Bush.Stop saying this for cheap clicks just because you escaped being hurt by Bush.
Pretending the Bush/Cheney years were benign when literally 2 MILLION Americans have been wounded/maimed by the wars in #Afghanistan & #Iraq is #GOP disinformation.

Also, Bush began the #WarOnWomen.
Bush helped stack the #SCOTUS with far right judges. Bush attacked #LGBT folks.
"Trump makes me miss Bush" is a statement of extreme privilege. It means you weren't hurt by Bush's domestic policies that made some of us feel we might have to flee our own country.These glib takes dismiss damage done by #GOP prior to Trump and how GWB opened the door for Trump.
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THREAD: earlier I tweeted about Jesse Singal's long history of writing fearmongering anti-#trans/GNC #children articles (+ also treating me & other trans women shittily): #transgender #LGBTQ #health #psychology
...Here I will "live tweet" Singal's latest Atlantic article, which is in the same vein as the others. If I was teaching a journalism class, I'd use this latest article as an example of how to write a highly biased piece that comes across as "fair & balanced" as possible...
...and since people unfamiliar with this subject will no doubt be unaware of all the misinformation & biases at work here, I'm gonna do math to it! I'm dividing it into 14 sections, each of which begins with its own header (aka, giant capital letter)...
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It is *not* a "total reversal" of his beliefs for *all* #Trans ppl. Your selective reading of the page is very telling and is representative of the mentality & intentions common among Trans "activists/allies." Altho this case and perhaps your own perspective are not nearly the1/x
most egregious, they are still problematic. Anyone reading your tweets would likely believe that Hakeem does not believe in psychotherapy for *any* #Trans ppl, which is clearly not the case. It is like those who ignore that @BlanchardPhD & @profjmb are among the strongest 2/x
advocates of #Trans ppl, including supporting their desire for SRS--in adulthood. In short, you/others frame the narrative in such a self-serving and selective/biased/distorted manner. For instance, 1) there is still *no* evidence that being "Trans" is "normal" in any way, 3/x
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