Positioning and wading
The shamelessness of Pink News part 2:
The controversy comes after a turbulent few years for JK Rowling, who has repeatedly positioned herself at the centre of the UK’s toxic debate surrounding trans lives.
Just look at that – from Pink News! She hasn’t “positioned herself” anywhere, she has said what she thinks, as has Pink News. She’s allowed to say what she thinks. Pink News never shuts up about it, so why should she? Why should we? We have rights too, we even have lives. The toxic debate isn’t surrounding or encircling or about “trans lives” anyway, it’s about the claims of the new and ever-expanding trans ideology, especially where the claims conflict with the rights of women (and the futures of adolescents and children).
The writer waded into the so-called “culture war” in 2019 when she stated her support for Maya Forstater, who has fought to have “gender critical” views protected under the Equality Act.
She didn’t “wade into” anything; she said what she thinks. Who the hell is Pink News to accuse other people of positioning themselves at the center of or wading into a controversy that affects everyone? We are allowed to say things.
The sheer narcissistic hubris. They, and Stonewall, think that they are the arbiters of who is, and isn’t, allowed to hold or express an opinion, and what that opinion is. No-one can ever tell them that they are mistaken, or blatantly lying, without being piled on. It must be one of their acolytes who is in charge of the Essex Police social media accounts.
Who told you that? The free speech fairy? /s
Clearly Pink News does not believe women have the right to say anything beyond TWAW. And that must be said at the top of the voice and often.
Ah, PZ found this story and his take on it is, well, really really special. It seems that if your personal information can be found at all and somebody finds it and posts it, it is not really a dox. Or maybe that is only the case if you are a wicked woman like JKR. There is some poor innocent trying to fight the good fight in the comments there but I have no doubt she or he will soon be banned as a bigot.
It’s a long long time since I’ve been a regular reader at FTB, but I recall that the belief there was that doxxing was a BAD THING and outsiders were accused and berated for doxxing for the simple act of a few google searches that linked people up to their real world lives. Seems PZ is abandoning all his previous dearly held beliefs in order to cling to the remnants of his horde.
I just had a quick look at FTB’s roster of blogs. very few of the old crowd left and the remainder are remarkably mono-dimensional in their views and interests.
southwest and Rob:
See my comment on the other thread about this. PZ knows that doxxing can still happen when information is already public. He knows it’s about using information to threaten, intimidate or endanger.
He’s lying.