Show her the knives
What a nauseating display.
Filed under “Transgender News”:
Brighton & Hove City Council councillor Alison Thomson, of Brighton & Hove Labour Party, has apologised for engaging with transphobic posts on social media, as reported by Scene magazine. The Labour councillor was slammed by community groups for reposting or liking a series of tweets supporting the anti-trans TERF movement, which is spearheaded by controversial figures such as JK Rowling and Julie Bindel.
Millions of womenphobic “posts on social media” appear every day without any male reporters getting all breathless about it, let alone openly fantasizing about women getting “slammed” for likecrime.
The councillor said in her apology:
“I apologise unreservedly for endorsing these social media posts which contain anti-trans sentiments.
“I recognise that they are offensive to the transgender community and I am deeply sorry for the hurt caused by this.
“I am committed to undergoing training to better understand the lived experiences of transgender people and with the aim of becoming a good trans ally.”
In other words the councillor is a hostage.
For the billionth time I point out that nobody has ever talked this way about the torrent of sexist and misogynist garbage on social media. It’s just normal to express hatred and contempt for women, and women just have to put up with it. Men in skirts, on the other hand, are as fragile as morning mist and must be shielded and pampered and love-bombed every minute of every day. People must undergo training in how to flatter them enough, while noisy haters of women just get noisier.
Leader of Brighton & Hove City Council and Labour Group, Bella Sankey added: “We know that Brighton & Hove is a beacon city for trans, non-binary, gender queer and lesbian, gay and bisexual communities. People come to our city because we are known as a safe and inclusive city with a thriving diverse and intersectional population.
Brighton is neither safe nor inclusive. Brighton is hostile territory for women.
“As your Labour Council, we stand in solidarity with our trans, non-binary and intersex communities and are proud of our commitment for trans equality and we celebrate our city’s diversity.
“I want to reassure the trans community that any expressions of anti-trans sentiment in any form will not be tolerated.
“Councillor Thomson has now, rightly, apologised unreservedly for her actions. I have also taken the decision to remove Cllr Thomson from her lead role on City Centre Renewal, while further investigation is carried out and subject to her completing training.”
Diversity blah blah anti-trans sentiment blah blah women councillors are so much garbage to be ground up at the pleasure of our trans, non-binary and intersex communities.
Let me guess; they don’t quote any of these allegedly “transphobic” posts, so we have to take their word for it. Which I don’t. JKR or Julie Bindle could post scone recipes and they’d be deemed “transphobic” because they posted it, so no, I’m not going to believe these Inquisitors for a moment.
So they’ve been taken over by a gang of thugs with blue, green, and purple hair and they’re proud of it.
No, you prioritize and privilege a tiny sliver of your vaunted, so-called “diversity.” Everyone else is subject to the whims and demands of this narrow, self-selected demographic on pain of ostracism and re-education. Brighton & Hove is not as much a beacon of tolerance as it is a pyre lit in the wake of its destruction.
Right, and so JKR and Julie B are the phobics? Not because they have submitted to the ideology, but because they are not afraid to oppose it. That’s how it works in their upside down cult. Submit and grovel in fear, and you too can be appointed a “trans ally.”
Sounds like she was repeating something dictated by someone holding a gun to her head.
Hence my “In other words the councillor is a hostage.” It really does sound both dictated and fake.
Good thing these goons have no more power and influence than they already posses. Let’s hope they accrue no more. One iteration of Red Guards is more than enough. The scary thing is they’d follow this very path if they could; the mindset is already there.
It’s hard to know quite which thread to add this comment to – feel free to move it Ophelia. Remember Posie Parker’s visit to Auckland? Remember that I and others were unhappy with the media coverage? I certainly considered laying a complaint with the industry regulator, but based on the report today I’m glad I didn’t waste my time.
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/nz-media-cleared-in-posie-parker-coverage
TL;DR, nothing to see here.
There were a lot of complaints about different aspects of the coverage, but they’ve all been brushed aside on the flimsiest of justifications.
– The regulator agreed that describing PP as anti-trans and trans-exclusive (and therefore the people who attended the event) was warranted.
– One story (by RNZ) was considered one-sided and lacking in balance, but because RNZ modified the story the next day (when no-one reads it), that was considered sufficient and so the 27 complaints were not upheld.
– a complaint against the Herald which cited 50 articles over a period of nine days around the Parker visit, said it was “disappointing” that while 15 opinion pieces ran in the paper and its site, it was “unable or unwilling to find someone to wrestle with the issues raised by the complainant”. The complaint was not upheld because Media Council principles allowed for fairness over a longer time frame – and nine days was “not sufficient time to judge the Herald as failing in this matter“. I note that they still have not run any balancing stories or opinion pieces, and even if they had that doesn’t compensate for the swamping of the field with a one sided view in such a short timeframe.
-The regulator also found that it was fine to report that nazis had supported PP rallies – ignoring the fact that the reporting linked women’s rights organisers and the supporting nazis, and did not report that the women repudiated the nazis and had tried to have police remove them from their area.
Angry, disappointed, not surprised.
Well that’s infuriating.