Bam, you’re out
Next up: get rid of everyone who says the earth is not flat.
Scottish Greens expel gender rebels
Rebel members have been kicked out of the Scottish Green Party for declaring that “sex is a biological reality”.
Signatories to the Scottish Green Declaration for Women’s Sex-Based Rights were accused of making the party less safe for trans and non-binary members in an official complaint.
Did anyone point out that the obsession with “trans and non-binary members” is making the party less safe for women? And that there are far more women than “trans and non-binary” people? That in fact half of all people are women and girls? Did anyone ask why it’s better to make the party “less safe” for women?
Did anyone point out that sex is a biological reality and it’s bizarre to expel people for uttering a basic and significant and non-pejorative truth of that kind?
In documents seen by Holyrood, a total of 13 Scottish Green Party members were accused of breaching its code of conduct by signing the declaration, which was published online in November last year.
The eight-point statement stated that “sex is a biological reality”, asserted that women have a right to maintain the sex-based protections enshrined in the Equality Act, said lesbians are same-sex attracted and declared that “women and girls have the right to discuss policies which affect them without being abused, harassed or intimidated”.
It stated: “We know that globally women, as a sex, are disproportionately affected by climate change and environmental degradation, and that their empowerment is essential to our work as environmentalists.”
The declaration was signed by current and former Scottish Green Party members and supporters.
13 people who signed it were reported to the CCC.
Complainants, including the then-co-convenors of LGBTQI+ group the Rainbow Greens and a co-convenor of its Women’s Network, said the signatories had failed to “maintain political discipline” and broken rules that prohibit the undermining of party policy, bullying, “behaviours that constitute prejudice based on sexual orientation or gender identity” and “behaviours that constitute a threat to others”.
Bullying?? Prejudice?? Threat to others??
Now officials of the party, which since 2018 has had a rule which states that “trans-exclusionary individuals of any kind are not welcome as members”, have issued letters of expulsion.
All of the group have been expelled.
These people are insane. (Can you imagine trying to work with them?) Just plain bonkers loony nuts. Half of humanity is a bit of trivia while a tiny almost-invisible minority matters more than anyone else on the planet.
The document, in which MSP Ross Greer is cited as a witness, states that: “Given the serious nature of this complaint and the serious breaches of the SGP CoC [Code of Conduct], the only appropriate action to be taken on this occasion is that all current members who are signatories on the ‘declaration’ MUST be removed from the party with immediate effect, to ensure the safety of all trans and non-binary members of the SGP.”
Why? Is the idea that the signatories are going to murder all trans and non-binary members of the SGP? Or beat them all to a pulp? Or confine them to a tiny cell and there torture them?
A spokesperson for the Scottish Green Party said: “We can confirm disciplinary action was taken against 13 individuals over a breach of our membership policy, which has resulted in their immediate expulsion from the party. The welfare of all our members is our primary concern. The CCC process found that the members were in breach of our code of conduct.
“Next month is Pride month and we hope this decisive action will send a clear message that we stand in solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community now and forever.”
No, it sends a message that you stand in hyperbolic excessive “solidarity” with people who claim to be trans, and that you will ditch everyone else in a heartbeat merely for saying women have rights. That’s not a message a reasonable political party would want to send.
No it’s not. Unless you’re admitting that you don’t have and don’t want any women members.
I saw that article and ground my teeth yet again at the stupid antics of the Scottish Green party, who should be building a big tent of those concerned about the environment, whatever their views on transgenderism and independence, and instead are fencing themselves to exclude all but the hyper-sensitive cultists. This insane gang refused to work in the Holyrood building near the trans heretic Ash Regan MSP because she made them feel “unsafe”. Did they think she was going to enact the Texas Chainsaw Massacre?
“On Friday, it emerged that Ms Regan will need to move to a new office at Holyrood and the Scottish Greens are not happy at the prospect of having her as a neighbour. Party insiders have claimed that transgender staff would fear for their safety.”
https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/ash-regan-says-15-nat-31359877
Their indignant speeches about being dumped by the SNP from the coalition included the words “progressive” about 50 times to the word “environment” or ” green”.
I would guess that there is quite a lot of broad sympathy towards green policies in Scotland, but these idiots are turning off any political support except from the cultists.
If the planet is burning, or drowning, you form alliances on those particular issues, not demand that people subscribe to your purity tests – which are not even related to the supposed core aim of your movement.
And all the more so when the minority is that tiny and that based on a delusion or pack of lies and that generally safe. It just makes no kind of sense no matter how you twist the frame.
The whole “unsafe” rhetoric makes me furious. There are environmental activists in some parts of the world who get killed – one every other day according to this Guardian report.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/13/environmental-activists-killed-at-a-rate-of-one-every-other-day-in-2022-global-witness-report-aoe#:~:text=7%20months%20old-,Environmental%20activists%20killed%20at%20a%20rate%20of,other%20day%20in%202022%20%E2%80%93%20report&text=At%20least%20177%20people%20were,place%20in%20the%20Amazon%20rainforest.
Excellent point.
Pfft. Scottish Greens go through EVERY DAY at the risk of being MISGENDERED! That they should have to live on the same PLANET or breathe the SAME AIR as somebody who makes them feel UNSAFE is COMPLETELY INTOLLERABLE. Any such genocidal bigots will be EXPELLED from human society, and banished to the FAR SIDE OF THE MOON!
This is satire of course. I’m sure they’ll all be dumped just the other side of Hadrian’s Wall.
Is it possible that the statement “we feel unsafe” is, psychologically, the same as the statements more candidly expressed as something closer to the “we feel contaminated” that is heard from islamophobic, homophobic and racist bigots? Is the mental process of essentializing people as an enemy based on their beliefs so different from essentializing them based on personal conduct or physical characteristics?
Man, what an amazing privilege it is to be able to kick out members of a political party vs. the way we do things in the USA.
I missed a trick by saying “idiots” instead of “bampots” to echo the title of your post. “Bampot” being a Scottish word for “lunatic”., rather than “idiot” (or “eejit”). Closer Scottish words to “idiot” are “balloon” and “numpty”.
The generic “progressive” is discussed in this article here:-
https://www.holyrood.com/comment/view,progressively-confused-are-all-politicians-progressive-now#:~:text=Buzzwords%20come%20and%20go%2C%20but,Tony%20Blair%20has%20espoused%20it.
@Alan Peakall
I don’t know about psychologically but sociologically it’s identical. The need to control (bully) others seems to be an inevitable consequence of how humans interact in groups. (I hope I’m wrong but I doubt it.) The psychological justifications are of course pure bullshit and can be as random as needed to fit in with the prevailing ideology but they appeal to the same basic fears – contamination, violence, humiliation. So the the “bad” people make the “good” people feel “unsafe” by being contaminated by bad ideas, they engage in “violence” that isn’t actually violent and they “disrespect” and “offend” them by saying things that embarrass them. The terminology changes but the mechanism remains the same.