Grown-ass QC says what now?
This is just childish.
No it’s not like that! Of course it’s not!
“This thing that’s not like this other thing is like this other thing.”
Blackface is not comparable to using ordinary pronouns, so debating the two is also not comparable. The two things are just not similar enough to make a useful comparison. “Inclusion” of trans people doesn’t rely on forcing everyone to use mix n match pronouns.
The follow-up is, if possible, even stupider.
That’s not the BBC’s stance. More to the point, what rights? Has Parliament passed a law saying everyone has to use bespoke pronouns on command? Has Parliament passed a law that includes pronouns in a list of must-dos?
I don’t think so. I don’t think it’s any kind of “right” for trans people to be referred to by specialty pronouns. I don’t think any human right has anything to do with pronouns.
Has Parliament passed a law protecting trans people’s “dignities”? I don’t know, but I doubt it, because it doesn’t sound law-ish, it sounds more Twitter activist-ish.
Furthermore – contemporary trans people can’t claim anything resembling the history of systematic exploitation and oppression going back generations that contemporary black people can. It’s belittling and insulting to claim that this new trendy narcissistic form of pseudo-oppression is in any way like the oppression of black and colonized people over the past 5 centuries or so. It’s belittling and insulting to claim that skepticism of the claims of trans dogma are remotely like racism.
The only pronouns (in common English) that the trans cult pronoun people should be using are I and me (my and mine in the possessive) like the rest of us. So when the illiterates say “my pronouns are” it’s a self referential description, and anything other than I or me is nonsense. Other people can say “their pronouns are” and carry on with some kind of fabrication depending on who they are referring to, but a self referential description using pronouns that can only be grammatically correct if used by other people shows a certain contempt for the rest of us who know perfectly well how to use pronouns. Trying to legislate for compelled speech is idiotic. I don’t know how these people get so invested in this poppycock. So remove them from your twitter bio Kamala, we fucking know what to call you, Madam Vice President. :P
twiliter, there is also “us” and “we”, but if used when only one is present brings the risk of being perceived as having dissociative disorder or schizophrenia (or thinking they are royal). Thus, care with the use of pronouns referring to multiple individuals should be approached with care.
Neglectful of me to disclude the non binies like that, my mistake. :D
Yeah. There should be no debate because it’s just plain obvious that declaring your pronouns is JUST AS WRONG as wearing blackface!
Wait … what? I don’t think he meant that.
He needs to take a course in how to form a persuasive argument.
Sastra, exactly my thoughts. And exactly right, too. Because if a bloke is demanding that we use the pronouns for the opposite sex when referring to him, then he is exactly like a white man in blackface demanding that we see him as a person of colour.
Methinks that Jolly Old Man is inadvertently revealing his true feelings on the matter, and that he only pretends to be on the side of the ‘trans’ activists because of the opportunities it gives him to be a bully.
Amusing tweet:-
https://twitter.com/mocent0/status/1461447414884274179
Well yes I’ve made some pretty bad analogies in my day, but that one is a real stinker. Of course using race is the more provocative thing to do, which looks like what he was going for. Intersectional stupidity. :P
Jolyon et al don’t have to make sense: they just have to get the slogans out there for other people to repeat and virtue signal. They’ve got “most oppressed minority EVAH” and “JK Rowling (etc) is a transphobe” circling around. He and the rest want to get “transphobia =racist” out there.
It’s a sad commentary on the critical thinking skills of those who repeat it.