1./ What's the link between this appalling French scandal, a monkey in a kid's library and the most recent hounding of @jk_rowling? All are connected by the mish mash of undigested ideas that drives so much of today's LGBTQ+ movement: Queer Theory.👇thetimes.co.uk/article/senior…
2./ When a "queer" activist jokes about porn being shown to children he's channelling Queer Theory's disdain for boundaries and carelessness towards child safeguarding. But how DID this assumption that the combo of kids and sex are a big joke infect an entire movement? 
3./ It all started in France, home of that judge who offered his 12 year old daughter online.🙄In 1972, Gayle Rubin, Queer Theory's high priestess, visited Paris, immersing herself in the work of Derrida and Foucault among others; as she told her protege Judith Butler in 1994.👇
4./ In "Sexual Traffic" the two luminaries joke about Rubin waving Foucault's 'History of Sexuality' at Butler urging her to read it. But Rubin had imbibed more than Foucault's brilliant historiography. There was the rather delicate issue of ...Foucault's crush on paedophilia.👇
5./ In 'Abnormal' and then his later History (which Butler and Rubin love so much) Foucault celebrates the rape of a little girl, Sophie Adams, by a 40 year old farmhand as "innocent village life"; one reason feminists of the non-queer variety don't take him very seriously.👇
6./ Back in the US, Rubin herself soon became an outspoken champion of paedophiles, whom she described as a victimised minority. In 'Thinking Sex' she bemoaned the fact it was hard "to find defenders of their civil liberties, let alone their erotic orientation". No shit, Gayle.
7./ Her enthusiasm for paedophile rights could not outdo that of the French left though. In this piece from 20 years ago @jonhenley explored how much of the French intellectual and political elite were trying to live down their support for paedophilia.👇theguardian.com/world/2001/feb…
8./ In 1977 a host of French luminaries signed a petition for the "right of children to have relations with whomever they choose". Queer Theory's inspirations Foucault and Derrida were joined by the man who was health minister 20 years ago, Bernard Kouchner. Why does this matter?
9./ It's easy to think Queer Theory's dalliance with paedophilia stayed theoretical. But France shows us the real-life consequences of not taking child safeguarding seriously. Earlier this year Kouchner's daughter rocked the French establishment.👇dw.com/en/french-ince…
10./ In her book Camille Kouchner revealed how her stepfather Olivier Duhamel had raped her brother when he was a teenager. Worse still his behaviour was an open secret, she said, among much of the Parisian elite.👇 politico.eu/article/incest…
11./ I love France but is there another European country where paedophilia has been viewed with such nonchalance? Gabriel Matzneff talked openly about stalking little girls and fucking 8 year old boys. Mitterrand invited him to the Elysee.👇 nytimes.com/2020/02/11/wor…
12./ The link between the theory of paedophilia and the practise can't be made more clearly than by the French elite's sordid bromance with Roman Polanksi. His alleged crimes happened the same year as that French paedophilia petition, 1977. 👇vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020…
13./ It was only THIS year that the idea that children could consent to sex with adults was removed from the French statute book. Before then cops had to consider whether a child had wanted sex. A case with an ...11 year old... finally sparked a change. 👇theatlantic.com/international/…
14./ Of course, some UK politicians were gullible about paedophilia too 👇but there's been nothing on the scale of France because we didn't have an intellectual elite actively promoting paedophilia as acceptable. We have though had our own scandals. bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-263…
15./ It amazes me any Scottish LGBTQ+ activist can joke about children and sex given what happened only 12 years ago at @LGBTYS one of our leading LGBTQ+ organisations. It should be a constant reminder of the dangers of complacency about paedophilia.👇scotsman.com/news/horror-up…
16./ So why is Queer Theory so complacent? 20 years ago the gay movement split. On one side LGB people were happy to assimilate and loved the society we grew up in. On the other a revolutionary queer cult won't be happy until our society is shattered.👇 monthlyreview.org/2001/05/01/the…
17./ Kids are at the heart of its ambition. QT says the family is a "heterosexist machine" to reproduce society. In No Future Lee Edelman argues 'queers' should embrace the death drive and try to stop reproduction altogether. His book blurb says "His main target is the child".🙄
18./ As France proves, nutty ideas can prepare the ground for terrible social outcomes. Is it unfair to compare troubling work like Edelman's with the epidemic of kids being pushed towards so-called "trans health care" which often makes them sterile?👇thetimes.co.uk/article/giving…
19./ Queer Theory is now being stitched into our institutions including the claim our society is so irredeemably oppressive it cannot be repaired. Instead the only way to achieve liberation is to smash norms, including the nuclear family and "heteronormativity". 👇
20./ Queer Theory projects like 'No Outsiders' argue as long as heterosexuality is assumed to be the exclusive orientation of the majority LGBTQ+ people cannot be free. That is almost as batshit crazy as another Queer Theory claim: that sex isn't binary.👇massivesci.com/articles/sex-g…
21./ But the truth is it's entirely possible for a minority to be fully respected and live totally fulfilling lives without undermining the most cherished beliefs of the majority. The optimism that this was achievable drove LGB people's struggle to attain the rights we now have.
22./ The LGBTQ+ movement stands at a junction. It can rush headlong into dangerous territory where it's happy to hint at a careless attitude towards child safeguarding or it can stand shoulder to shoulder with the mainstream society from which it gained equality.
23./ We can embrace normality (and help redefine it) so we play our part in helping our fellow citizens flourish or we can play strange intellectual games that reignite ancient prejudices. If the so-called "queers" want to do that, LGB peeps should cheerfully bid them Goodbye.
24./ And next time LGBTQ+ activists try to "queer" a kids' library, we'll be at the front challenging them. We know, more than most, that behind the likes of the 'dildo' monkey there's an intellectual organ grinder - Queer Theory- and it's no joke. 👇 standard.co.uk/news/uk/london…
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