Awaiting apologies
Cast your minds back to last week, if you will, to Damian Barr’s energetic campaign to push the Booker Foundation to monster Emma Nicholson.
Damian Barr is leading a charge of writers, including one former Booker prize winner, who are calling on the Booker Foundation to remove the allegedly “homophobic” peer Emma Nicholson from her position as vice-president.
Lady Nicholson of Winterbourne, who voted against the same-sex marriage bill in 2013, is the widow of the late former chairman of Booker, Sir Michael Caine, who helped establish the prize. She is currently a vice-president of the Booker Foundation, and a former trustee of the prize.
Barr, a novelist, memoirist and host of the Literary Salon, learned of her association with the prize earlier this week, after Munroe Bergdorf, the model and transgender activist, said she was referring Nicholson to the Parliamentary Standards Conduct Commissioner over Nicholson’s posts on social media about the trans community. The peer also drew fire earlier this month over her views on same-sex marriage.
Blah blah blah. They had their way; the Booker Foundation promptly did what it was told. Hooray! Another woman punished! Progressive triumph!
But, uh oh, it turns out Damian Barr once had a habit of saying actually cruel mocking things about trans people on Twitter…unlike Emma Nicholson and unlike the rest of us Notorious TERFs.
Flash forward a few years and he’s hugging himself in glee over bullying and ostracizing a woman.
I’m so tired of these creeps.
Oh, he made many many more horrible tweets than just those. He seems to have a fascination with “Thai hookers” and loves the word “whore” deeply. Screen captures are posted all over Twitter while Barr has locked his account and people on Twitter are claiming he is deleting tweets frantically. Still no words of outrage or demands for banning from the usual trans cult crowd, though……………………wonder why?
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TRAs are strong believers of the notion that the end justifies the means, so anything goes so long as he also says the mantras. He’s a septic arsehole, but he’s their septic arsehole.
I suspect it’s more a matter of, once you have “bent the knee,” your prior sins are cleansed.
#Screechy Monkey:
An addendum to that: … unless you are a woman.