Here's another enabler MSP who wants to reduce our freedoms. When @RadioClydeNews interviewed performers and producers concerned about the Hate Crime Bill @Ross_Greer claimed their reporting was inaccurate. When they pointed out they had taken legal advice he backed down.👇
2./ It was no longer inaccurate. It was now..."contextually misleading". Now his defence of the Bill is that earlier provisions from the 1980s that could have been equally misused never have been so why would these new wholesale extensions ever be misused? This begs a question.
3./ If they were never used why bother going to this effort to extend them? I'll tell you why. 30 years on the atmosphere is different and there's now an army of over-agitated, virtue-signalling culture war extremists gagging to misuse them. Look just up the road from Holyrood.
4./ If you'd told anyone 30 years ago that the greatest philosopher Scotland (and arguably Britain) ever produced, David Hume, who helped undermine the pretensions of our home grown religious Taliban, could be cancelled for a footnote, they'd think you were mad.
5./ Of course it would have been wonderful if Hume had been an opponent of slavery like his brilliant contemporary critic Dr Johnson (who just happened to be a Tory, and a Englishman who held much of Scotland in contempt). Big surprise: no one was perfect 250 years ago!
6. The people Hume fought against are now back: the moral warriors and hypocrites with closed minds. Their beards may not be as impressive as John Knox's but their misogyny and self-righteousness would give him a run for his money as they police every utterance for a pile-on.
7./ Like Greer they'll use sophistry to defend this Bill as a small tidying up exercise. But you have to ask yourself why would the SNP prioritise this Bill now over say hospitals or the case for Indy (depending on your political point of view) unless they were deadly serious?
8./ Who knew we'd have so many MSPs who see their job as trying to restrict the freedoms we pay them to defend? In the end, do you believe the Faculty of Advocates, Police Scotland, the Secular Society or wee Ross Greer? You don't need to be David Hume to answer that question.
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1./ 🧵Why is the debate about Trans so overdue? It's great to see the landmark book by @HJoyceGender discussed at a Festival at long last and by the legend that is @bindelj. There was though a tragic irony about the location that reminds us why this debate is urgently necessary
2./ In the early hours of the 25th July 2021 a slightly-built 30 year old Spanish engineer Jorge Martin Carreno was separated from his friends and sat down, tipsy, beside the architectural wonder that is the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford where today's debate was held.
3./ What Jorge did not know was a 23 year old trans identified male, who called himself Scarlet Blake, was at that very moment scouring the streets of Oxford looking for someone to kill. He was wearing a hooded jacket that hid his face. And then he spied...Jorge.
1./ 🧵Adolescence
If someone says a TV drama should shape policy remind them of Butterfly about a boy who wants puberty blockers. Its advisor Susie Green had castrated her own son. 6 years ago the show was applauded by many now applauding Adolescence.
2./ We now know puberty blockers do not alleviate gender dysphoria, yet Butterfly claimed they did. The Tavistock only released that information after relentless pressure. In the show the clinic is portrayed as a centre of excellence. It's now been closed.
3./ The boy at the centre of Butterfly was 11. We now know from the Cass Review that the depiction of boys like him was a shockingly biased and often blatantly untruthful account. Yet Lucy Mangan described it as "an important, truthful drama". theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…
1./ 🧵Incest and White Lotus. The creator of Netflix's hit series wrote his thesis about Judith Butler. In my latest article I explore whether the show's incest theme was inspired by the incest-obsessed Queen of Queer Theory.
Click on the link in my bio or end of 🧵to read more.
2./ Mike White wrote his thesis about Butler two years after Gender Trouble was published. The book even got an airing in Season 1, when the deeply annoying Paula was seen packing it into her bag. How big a role does incest play in Butler's book? It has a starring role. 👉
3./ Here are some of the references to incest in Gender Trouble. Butler became obsessed with incest after studying the work of fellow lesbian, Gayle Rubin. This sadomasochist aficionado of S&M porn and defender of paedophilia had come up a crazy Foucault influenced notion. 👉
1./ 🧵The LGBTQ+ lobby, Epstein and hating mothers.
My latest article is about Jes Staley, ex-CEO of Barclays & champion of the LGBTQ+ lobby. 2 weeks ago he went to court to appeal fines for lying about his links to Jeffrey Epstein.
Click on the link in my bio to read more.☝️
2./ In 2023, the UK's finance regulator @TheFCA fined Staley £1.8m and banned him from senior positions after he signed off a letter from Barclays claiming he had a strictly business relationship with the notorious sex trafficker who conveniently committed suicide in 2019.
3./ In fact, their business relationship began in 1999 when Epstein became a client of Staley's at JP Morgan. It blossomed in 2002 when Epstein brought $1Bn into Staley's division. Money he'd mysteriously been given power of attorney over by the reclusive billionaire Les Wexner.
1./ 🧵The Sissy Fantasy. My latest article asks why the mainstream media was so shocked by Sam Rockwell's monologue in White Lotus? Did defenders of the trans agenda not realise his love of sissification is the erotic core of most trans identification in men?
Click on the link in my bio to read the full story. 👆👆👆
2./ That matters because if you don't understand "dressing like a woman" gets some men sexually aroused you will fail to appreciate the importance of policing single sex spaces. A good example of this ignorance was the baffled discussion of Rockwell's monologue in the @latimes.
3./ Greg Braxton and Mary McNamara considered the sexual behaviour under discussion so dark and extreme they wondered if it had been included merely for shock value. Yet exhibitionist autogynephilia like this is far from uncommon. They should know that from their own paper.
1./🧵 In my latest article I show why the LGBTQ+ activist and child rapist Stephen Ireland is only the tip of the iceberg. The LGBTQ+ lobby is riddled with predatory men and its agenda is a front for depraved sexual fantasies.
Click on the link in my bio to read more. 🔼
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2./ Ireland didn't just start @PrideInSurrey. He ran UK Pride Network. Here he is on stage in 2018 at the national Pride he organised. He led a campaign to shut down the first @ChickfilA diner in the UK, he signed petitions by @LGBTConsortium and was on the Pride Power List.
3./ It's no accident Ireland fantasised about mutilating boys or abducting them from playgrounds. The LGBTQ+ lobby's number one demand is puberty blockers that sterilise children. It also demands schools socially transition kids without parental consent. A first step in grooming.