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Aug 25, 2019 15 tweets 3 min read Read on X
More on Brazil, and this time how our own jolly trans activists managed to add some fuel to the fire(s). What would u do if you were the British Council or Creative Scotland and u were funding an arts festival across Brazil in 2016? You'd surely recognise there was a bitter...
...Culture War underway in which the religious Right were in full froth mode. You'd know trans rights and 'gender ideology' was at the heart of that War. You'd likely note that central to the opposition to "gender ideology" was the accusation that European countries were trying..
..to foist their values on Brazil in a form of latter day colonialism. Wouldn't you wonder if maybe we should tread just a little warily? We could be smart and a little subversive perhaps but we could also focus on some uncontroversial stuff too. Things that might nudge..rather
..kick doors down? But if you're a cultural apparatchik at the British Council or Creative Scotland and you've been brainwashed by Stonewall and its Queer Theory baloney about the importance of creating outrage and celebrating deviance you wouldn't care would you?
You'd dismiss all these doubts and you'd place at the centre of the arts festival you're funding with taxpayers money, a play about a trans Jesus by a transgender playwright. The play called 'The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven' opened amid protests in May 2016. ..
It wasn't long until it was denounced by a politician gaining a name for himself, some bloke called Bolsonaro. As anger mounted, armed guards would eventually have to protect the venues. Here's playwright..
...Jo Clifford blogging about it. The last performance was just before Bolsonaro took power. It's now too dangerous to perform it apparently. theatreanddance.britishcouncil.org/blog/2016/11/w… ...
I'm sure Clifford's play is fascinating. And I'd happily go along and see it. I'd have no objection at all if a private theatre group wanted to fund its tour anywhere. But for holy Pete's sake ..how could it possibly have helped in the middle of a culture war in a highly ..
...religious country for our state funded cultural institutions to sponsor this play? The answer of course is that trans activists driven by Queer Theory precepts believe in provocation. It's why our 'No Outsiders' initiative in this country..
..was launched in a majority Muslim School. Maximum outrage. Maximum provocation. Well, in the end you reap what you sow as someone may or may not have said. Brazil was indeed outraged and Bolsanaro had something else to keep himself on the front pages, something else
..to back his claim that rich secularizing outsiders were using their money to try to change Brazil. When the British Council and Creative Scotland look at Brazil now (if they can see through the smoke that is ) do they pat themselves on the back, and tell each other..
"well that was a very effective use of taxpayer's money". Maybe they do. But you know what as backlash builds over trans activism's arrogance and the way it has wheedled its way into institutions as well as its hamfisted attempts to impose unsupportable and sometimes downright..
...crazy notions on the public both here and abroad, the sooner liberals and the left (and all fairminded tolerant people) cut them loose and tell them 'not in my name'...the better.
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