Calling themselves “Gold Command”
I saw this from Dennis so I hared off to find the details.
Calling themselves “Gold Command” ffs. Apparently it’s a police thing, and Gold is of course the top rank, so they’re like Eisenhower on D-Day. Not that they’re at all stuck on themselves.
So I quested and found the Telegraph:
An investigation into Baroness Falkner of Margravine’s work as the Equalities and Human Rights Commission chairman, which has been condemned by her allies as spurious, was suspended on Friday following a backlash from 54 peers and outcry across the political spectrum.
Officials had filed a dossier of 40 complaints alleging “bullying”, “discrimination”, “harassment” and a “lack of psychological safety”, targeted at both [Kishwer Falkner] and her board of 12 expert commissioners, who have powers in statute to make all its policy decisions on equality law.
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The complaints began when the EHRC pivoted to settle the transgender debate since Lady Falkner took charge, including by taking gender-critical views into account, which has infuriated trans activists.
Pivoted to settle the debate? It’s not clear to me what that means. The rest of the sentence is clear enough though.
Her allies said it was a “victory for Board over Blob” and called on Marcial Boo, the EHRC chief executive, to resign over the row.
A source close to the EHRC said…
“It’s just tragic. There was an elite group of EHRC people who got together to arrange how they would get rid of her and referred to themselves as ‘gold command’. They came to a consensus view that the only way forward was to get a silk to do an investigation and give the silk all the evidence he would need to find her guilty.”
The dossier, which was said to contain 40 allegedly vague allegations, bemoaned “a lack of psychological safety, i.e. the fear of who will be attacked next” and staff were “worried that the commission is becoming an unsafe place to work”. Another took issue with Baroness Falkner allegedly referring to a trans quiz show contestant as a “bloke in lipstick” in a board meeting, which her allies said was taken out of context.
It looks as if the adults have wrested the controls away from the drunk teenagers…for the moment. Mind how you go; don’t make any sudden moves.
I am so sick of these noxious little pustules claiming to feel “unsafe”. Did she come into work with a loaded gun, screaming that you’re next up against the wall? Did she tell you that if you displease her, she’ll have a word with a mobster friend who’ll be happy to make a disposal run for her? Did she repeatedly drive back and forth in front of your house, or make 300 hang-up calls to your phone, or send you emails with photos of your children’s schools? No? Then shut the fuck up, you histrionic little asswipe.
Well said!
Sorta reminds me of a certain disorganized but vicious & vile “Gold Command”, as it were, at FtB a few years ago.
At a guess, I suspect that prior to Faulkner’s placement, the EHRC had been ducking the question–not necessarily in the bag for the trans ideologue position, but certainly not taking anything resembling a gender-critical position, either. Thus, it was allowing the debate to go forward, but be left unsettled.
If that’s the case, I’d say “moved to settle the debate” would be better wording. It wouldn’t be a ‘pivot’ unless they’d been actively trying to keep the debate alive by waffling whenever it seemed like either side would be able to ‘win’.
From Janice Turner at the Times:
https://archive.is/2023.05.26-220026/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/foul-tactics-wont-move-determined-falkner-l8dkjgp0h
(Archived copy).
Meanwhile, here in the States, trans activists have been sending bomb threats to Target Stores.
“Gold Command” reports to no one. They’re SHATFE (Supreme Headquarters Allies of Trans Folk Everywhere) because all acronyms are now required to have an inserted ‘T”.
It’s interesting, though isn’t it, that they *have* to do this each time.
They absolutely must go all out, every time, to attack, smear, dismiss any woman who dares to try to set a boundary. *Any* boundary. Particularly around a definition of female that excludes males – as with Sex being correctly defined as reality, not Vewy Speshul Identitay.
Women must not be permitted to say “no”. That’s the whole thing – it gives the game away entirely.
If women can say “No, males are not female”, then they will start getting the idea that they can say “no” to males under other circumstances, and that is totally unacceptable to these doodz (and the male-identified women supporting them – feeding the crocodile in the hope that he’ll be too full to eat them. It doesn’t work).
“Be Kind!” isn’t working any more, since a lot of women have spotted the pattern – it’s only ever us that will be expected to shut up and let the males trample all over us. Same as it ever was.
It’s why the attacks on women who say “no” to men are so vicious, why there are whole campaigns to destroy reputations and lives, and why these people will not stop. They can’t. Their whole worldview will come tumbling down, and they can’t admit that.
We cannot be allowed to say “no”. We cannot be permitted to be fully human, otherwise the attacks on us are unacceptable, and others would have to admit that they were wrong, that we do not deserve this.
We will not recant.
@5 gives a different meaning to ‘gold command’….
@7 really interesting point, that these men absolutely cannot let any ‘no’ be left unpunished, even the most innocuous, inoffensive, or self-evidently sensible.
Or to put it another way, these man absolutely cannot believe their luck that they get to trash women all day every day and be seen as progressive and right-on for doing so.
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