Bullying Tactics and the Gender Critical Position

Naomi Cunningham's article is titled "Why did lawyers try to cancel me over trans rights?" She ends her article on a hopeful note: bullying tactics by trans rights activists seem to be less effective of late.

Over the last couple of years, I’ve been writing regularly on the seething controversies around biological sex and gender identity. I’m a barrister, specialising in discrimination and employment law and chair of the new human rights organisation Sex Matters, so I take a professional as well as a personal interest in the subject. My stance is broadly ‘gender critical’. I believe that biological sex is real, and that sometimes has consequences that matter; that there are exactly two sexes; and that although human beings are free to embrace the gendered behaviour associated with the opposite sex, and even to modify their bodies so that they look more like a member of the opposite sex, they cannot literally change sex.

These facts are obviously true, and the vast majority of people believe them. And yet they are now also bitterly contested. Many of those writing and campaigning in this area have suffered bullying, no-platforming, threats to their livelihoods, and even threats of death or rape. The attacks are disgraceful, but I became concerned that they were creating a chilling effect wider than was justified by the real risks in speaking up. So last month, I wrote my own story in a short blog, entitled 'Not Cancelled: I have suffered no serious adverse consequences from my gender-critical writing. The end.’

That’s still true – but in the last few days I have faced quite a serious attempt to cancel me from an event at which I was to speak.

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J.K. Rowling Won’t be Part of the 20th Anniversary Harry Potter Reunion

J.K. Rowling won't be part of this 20th Year Harry Potter extravaganza, presumably because her over-active imagination just got too damned carried away: She has publicly confessed that she believes in a world where real-life women exist.

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About Trump’s “Friendly” Relationship with Russia

Tribal forces are strong and counter-narratives are a bitch. Glenn Greenwald points out that on two key issues, Trump was most definitely not under Russian control. These incidents should have stopped Russiagate in its tracks, but they didn't.

Here's more evidence of the counter-narrative that was ignored and suppressed. It should have been big news and it should have given left-leaning news media pause. Acknowledging facts like this makes you less popular at your friends' cocktail parties.  Greenwald's words are harsh but well-deserved:

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Kenosha Documentary Allows you to Make Up Your Own Mind

Three hellish days of Kenosha told in raw recordings, without commentary. Below is the trailer. I support this project, which is a good step for circumventing filters and lies of legacy media outlets. Now you can make up your own mind.

Hi, I'm Matt Orfalea, producer/director/editor of "Killing Kenosha".

"Killing Kenosha" is a feature-length film documenting the 2020 civil unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin. It covers the dramatic 48 hours between the police shooting of Jacob Blake and the shootings of Kyle Rittenhouse, who is currently on trial for murder. Here's a 10-minute opener.

WHY I'M MAKING THIS FILM The full story of the 2020 Keosha unrest must be told and understood in order to prevent such tragedies from repeating.

WHY I NEED YOUR HELP Unfortunately, even though "Killing Kenosha" has all the aspects of a blockbuster movie (drama, crime, horror), it is not a lucrative endeavor. Everywhere I've tried to secure funding, I've been told, "It's too controversial". Likewise, my YouTube videos on the events have been demonetized. I've been passionately researching and editing this project myself for months and I need your financial support to complete the following tasks. . .

Here's Matt Orfalea's gofundme page.

It should make us all pause to hear anyone criticizing raw footage. It's coming from the political left, unsurprisingly. They are trying to preserve their chosen narrative at all costs, even if it requires attacking classic liberals like the producer of this documentary, Matt Orfalea:

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John Cleese Self-Cancels

An excerpt, from an article about the man who impersonated Hitler hilariously and lived to talk about it:

But the whole exercise underlines how hard it is, even for the younger generation, to navigate the etiquette they have helped create. If you elevate the taking of offence to the ultimate guiding principle, people will begin to operate out of fear of censure. That fear can impede creativity, especially in those who lack cultural power (which Cleese obviously does not).

It also makes it difficult to test your ideas in opposition to others’, something a university debating society should probably adopt as a priority.

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