qbert:
What gets me about that article is this sentence:
“The petition was started by Dr. Erin Pritchard, a disability lecturer at Liverpool Hope University, who has dwarfism .”
They’re offended by midgets but dwarves are acceptable? It’s like they randomly pull “offensive” words out of a hat. Don’t say retarded, you half-wit moron!
Little People is currently the PC term. Dwarf is currently unacceptable. Dwarfism isn’t presumably because it’s a medical term.
I’ve drunk in The Magic Midget. It’s a bit of a shit pub.
Brianjones:
complete knob-end.
Some nobs would find that offensive. I believe the PC term is protrusion.
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Thank god Rowling is too rich to cancel.
I wrote the words below in April, about the UK left, and I’m retweeting them today for the benefit of some of the numbskulls in my mentions.
Women like me, and there are a lot of us, aren’t and never have been far-right. We simply want the left to wake the hell up, because we’re watching it do its utmost to alienate people it used to represent.
I’m not saying Trump’s win was down to the gender stuff - I’m not an American voter, so can’t judge. In any case, the Labour Party won the last UK election and they’ve embraced gender identity ideology whole-heartedly (although they won against a Tory government so enfeebled and unpopular it would have been miraculous if they hadn’t, and their popularity since gaining office has plummeted.)
What I do know is that millions of women in the UK and across the developed world are extremely angry about men in women’s sport, men in women’s jails and the erosion of single-sex spaces. Parents are angry at being demonised because they don’t want their troubled kids to undergo irreversible medical treatments of extremely questionable benefit. People are sick to the back teeth of being bullied and threatened for refusing to embrace an elitist, academia-generated ideology that’s having severe real world consequences.
Large swathes of the left continue to be threatening and abusive to anybody who resists their attempts to impose ideological language or bully them out of wrongthink. Leftist activists jeer and sneer at erstwhile female allies for the crime of believing biological sex is real and matters. And leftist leaders still appear more interested in sucking up to gender activists than - to take a topical example in the UK - female nurses whose crime is not wanting to undress in front of a fully intact male.
So to those screaming ‘bigot’ and ‘fascist’ at me, you should know two things. Firstly, I’m completely indifferent to your disapproval, as I’d have thought you’d have realised by now. Secondly, and far more importantly, the only thing more harmful to your cause than your pseudo-religious belief in gender identities is your astounding, self-righteous arrogance.
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bojack
November 10, 2024, 12:00am
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I don’t often (ok ever) recommend NPR programs, but this post-election episode is worth a listen because it makes unusual leftist noises in support of Rowling’s overall point about academia (but no mention of her).
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Mr_PBH
November 10, 2024, 1:32am
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IDK if this is true. But OMG-- sick.
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I’ll bet you it’s not real.
Mr_PBH
November 10, 2024, 1:37am
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I seem to recall the name tho–and something similar about posts made in very poor very woke taste.
Mr_PBH
November 10, 2024, 1:40am
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tempogain:
Yeah this is fake though
The antiwoke backlash is always worse! “She didn’t say that, Jimbobjoe. YEW did.”
“She made me!”
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qbert
November 10, 2024, 1:48am
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Sarah Jeong is that racist piece of shit who became infamous for posting tweets about how she and her Asian-American friends giggle about how much they hate white males when they hold their slumber parties. How she still has a job is beyond me. Double standards - if I posted crap about how much I hate Asian women…
I hate white males when they throw their stupid slumber parties too.
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qbert
November 10, 2024, 5:28am
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Actually I misremembered, it had nothing to do with slumber parties.
That last one was actually pretty funny. So that explains why Chinese carry umbrellas to ward off sunshine.
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BigDave
November 10, 2024, 11:38am
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I bet her husband/bf is white.
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I bet she gaped stupidly after the election and asked “how could Americans vote for Trump?”
Maybe you and the rest of the liberal elite calling young white males racist for the past decade or more had something to do with it, sweet cheeks.