Thread by @AidanCTweets

CW: violent transphobic threat

Graham Linehan's YouTube co-host got drunk and told the truth on Twitter.

A lot of Rad Fems want trans people to die.("AGP" is what Arty calls most trans women, and it's a way of slurring trans women as perverts who transition for sexual reasons.)

Imagine being Graham Linehan's co-host and having the gall to write the last sentence here.

They provide these people with an hour-long weekly hate, and now he's getting squeamish about the hatred they create?

You know that in the wee drunken hours a lot of "gender critical" people grapple with the fact that they might actually be in a hate movement, but are faced with the sunk cost fallacy.

He realises that he cannot criticise the "angry assholes" because they will turn on him.

Then Arty woke up and probably realised that he shouldn't have critical the "angry assholes" and profusely apologised, saying it was the drink talking...

You see, for years Linehan has said that people who say that some GC or rad feminist people literally want trans people to die are crazy.

Then Arty got drunk and said, actually, "a lot" of them do want that. So he HAD to pass it off as a drunken mistake to save face.

Think: "I got drunk and accidentally tweeted that a lot of my radical feminist allies are shockingly vicious to trans people, and have bloodlust, and that there is an unwillingness to call this out amongst others, but I didn't mean it..." is just not plausible.

When Arty talks about bloodlust, he is talking about prominent GC people. The leaders.

There is no equivalency in trans rights.

There aren't prominent people in Stonewall or Mermaids or other trans rights orgs who have bloodlust that people are afraid to criticise.

The gender critical movement has always been a hate movement.

They despise trans people.

There's no mystery, and Arty is not the first gender critical person to tweet of late about being shocked by the level of hatred for trans people in their movement.

However, Arty literally calls the very few gender critical trans people "sympathetic transsexuals." What does that make all the others? Did he really not get what he was doing with that language? That's either disingenuous, or demonstrates an unbelievable lack of self awareness.

Did he think that when Helen Staniland (the other co-host) said on one of their shows that "AGPs" who go out in public are engaging people in a non-consensual sex act, and that they should "keep it in the bedroom," that there are no hateful consequences to that sort of language?

What on earth does he think they have been doing all these years?

There are so may instances where they call trans people and those who support trans rights "psychopaths," "deranged," etc etc

What does he think language like that does in the minds of people listening?

The whole purpose is to make people so very, very angry. Linehan's entire speech this weekend at a rally in Dublin was about the need to stay angry, and to make people frightened of that anger.

That coming from a trans rights rally would be held up as "violent rhetoric."

You weren't wrong in the wee hours @artymortyarty.

It is a hate movement, and despite your apology, I think you know that.

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