Society's Child

How Britain's feminist grass roots turned the tide against gender extremists

Erin Perse
Quillette
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 00:01 UTC

Liz Truss, currently serving as UK Secretary of State for International Trade, President of the Board of Trade, and Minister for Women and Equalities, photographed in 2013.

In the midst of a COVID-19 pandemic and a series of massive protests over racist police brutality in the United States, one might find it hard to believe that an author's common-sense views on human biology would make headlines. Yet everywhere you look, you'll see coverage of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, who's now being denounced as "transphobic" for speaking plain truths about the differences between men and women.

In fact, so much attention has been focused on Rowling that some have missed the more significant British news in this area: The country's Conservative government is distancing itself from proposed legislative reforms that would have enshrined gender "self-identification" over biological sex. Though Liz Truss, Minister for Women and Equalities, likely won't be releasing the government's policy response till July, leaks confirm that "self-ID" (as it's widely known) will not be introduced. Moreover, Truss says she wants to protect gender dysphoric children from making "irreversible decisions" in regard to their bodies, and would allow women to create and maintain safe single-sex spaces free of male-bodied individuals. This is a huge win for so-called "gender-critical" activists, who lack the deep pockets and institutional influence of the far more fashionable trans-rights lobby — even if there is still a long way to go to repair the damage that's already been done.

Comment: As the left continues to fracture more and more, the identitarian ideologies become more and more incompatible. Pass the popcorn.

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'It got ugly': What happened when Black Lives Matter protests came to small town Ohio

Dan Horn
USA Today
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 18:35 UTC

Donna Henson sat on her front porch last weekend, as she always does when the weather is nice, and watched dozens of her neighbors walk by with bats in their hands or guns strapped to their sides.

They were married couples, friends and relatives, young people and old. All heading up Union Street, toward the center of town.

Henson, 78, figured they'd heard the same rumors she had, the ones about busloads of people coming to her town to join small Black Lives Matter protests on Sunday and Monday. Word was hundreds could arrive from Cincinnati or Columbus or Detroit.

Henson was afraid, and she guessed her neighbors were, too. If they didn't do something, if they didn't show up armed and ready, the unrest they'd seen on TV for weeks on far off American streets could come to Bethel, a village of 2,800.

Comment: The reason people are protesting in peaceful, small American towns is because collective guilt based on manufactured systematic racism is now a thing. These are normal everyday Americans who are just trying to live their lives. Collectively shaming them for grievances that aren't even wrong is naturally seen as a bizarre provocation. And when a few respond in turn, the agitators signal how right they are. It's a dark and backwards mess.

Elites who appease the baying mob's apology addiction have stripped apology of all meaning

Frank Furedi
RT
Fri, 19 Jun 2020 18:42 UTC

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Jacob Frey, Mayor of Minneapolis takes at knee George Floyd's memorial service on Thursday, June 4, 2020 in Minneapolis , Minnesota

No sooner did Jacob Frey, the Mayor of Minneapolis, apologize to the black community for the killing of George Floyd than everyone felt they had to say sorry for the sins of their fathers, erasing the meaning of sincere apology.

I've stopped counting the number of apologies issued by public figures, business institutions and celebrities in recent weeks. It's sometimes difficult to avoid the conclusion that a public apology has become a public-relations exercise. Why else would the Greene King pub chain and Lloyd's of London apologize for the links to the slave trade - a historical event that occurred centuries ago?

Moral cowardice and the easy way out

Moral cowardice is another of the driving forces fueling the proliferation of public apologies. Apology has become weaponized to the point that very few politicians possess the strength of character to stand by their words. I remember when, last November, the Mayor of Middlesbrough, Andy Preston, apologized 'unreservedly' to the mental-health charity Mind for calling a Facebook commenter a 'nutter'. There's something truly scary about a world in which people wish to censor others for using a word the vast majority of human beings find unobjectionable. But what is even more chilling is that the mayor felt obliged to grovel and apologize.

Police op underway in Dijon, France after days of street skirmishes between Chechen and Maghreb gangs

RT
Fri, 19 Jun 2020 17:39 UTC

French police are conducting an operation in the city of Dijon, which has seen several nights of gang violence in the past week.

Local law enforcement announced the operation in the neighborhoods of Gresilles and Chenove on Friday morning, tweeting photos of officers in action.

Some 150 officers were deployed to search the area for stashed weapons that could have been used in the gang confrontations, according to local media.

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Street battles rage between rival foreign Muslim militias in French city of Dijon

The birth of the culture wars

Frank Furedi
Spiked
Fri, 19 Jun 2020 17:20 UTC

Many pundits and politicians seem to blame UK prime minister Boris Johnson for provoking the latest installment of the culture wars that now dominate Anglo-American public life. Sections of the media, from the New York Times to the Guardian, have claimed that Johnson wants to argue over statues to distract from his poor handling of the Covid pandemic. Others, such as Labour's David Lammy, reckon Johnson's defence of the statue of Winston Churchill, against those who would deface or dismantle it, was a deliberate attempt to stoke the culture wars, and deflect attention from the Tories lack of progress on 'racial injustice'.

These are massively disingenuous claims. After all, is it really surprising that a British prime minister would defend a memorial devoted to arguably the nation's greatest modern figure? Moreover, Johnson was not initiating anything. He was responding to a movement that has been directing its energy towards the destruction of the symbols of Britain's national history and culture. It takes tremendous bad faith to characterise Johnson's defensive response to an attack on British culture as an attempt to launch a culture war.

About face: Ralph Northam is speaker for Virginia Dems even though they called for his resignation over blackface photo

RT
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 17:12 UTC

Governor Ralph Northam is speaking for Virginia Democrats at an upcoming convention, a decision being blasted, because the same group had previously called for his resignation over a controversial blackface photo.

"We're honored to have @GovernorVA speaking at our virtual state convention coming up in just a few days!" the Democrat Party of Virginia wrote on Thursday, in a tweet that left many scratching their heads.

Virginia Democrats were one of many groups to call for Northam to resign only a year ago, after the governor was found to be in a photo containing one person in blackface - whom many suspect is Northam - and another in a Ku Klux Klan outfit.

Empty Coffins, Empty Hospitals: Brazilian MPs Expose Biggest Covid-19 Hoax Known To Date

Joaquin Flores
Fort Russ News
Fri, 19 Jun 2020 17:05 UTC

FRN brings the following major revelation:

Members of the Brazilian parliament decided to confirm suspicions and break into a hospital that claimed to have 5,000 infected & 200 deaths from COVID-19, and found that the hospital had grossly over-represented the cases and its claims. There was in fact not a single person, they report, and the hospital was entirely empty and was obviously still under construction.

Acting on a tip that something was going wrong at this hospital, five members of the Brazil parliament went to hospitals under encouragement by president Bolsonaro to break in & check to see the number of patients there.

Say what? UK Sky Cinema adds trigger warning for 2019 Aladdin remake for 'outdated attitudes'

RT
Fri, 19 Jun 2020 16:59 UTC

Sky Cinema in Britain has placed disclaimers alongside its descriptions of several popular motion pictures, claiming that some "attitudes" in those films may be outdated. But one of its 'trigger-warned' movies is only a year old.

Sky's movie service informed its viewers that 2019's 'Aladdin' contains "outdated attitudes, language and cultural depictions which may cause offence today."

Sky's "trigger warning" has drawn a predictable backlash online.

People were perplexed that a remake from only last year is now being called "outdated."

"Wait til they catch up with 'Hunchback of Notre Dame'! Banned by the end of the week!" Mansfield MP Ben Bradley tweeted.

Viewers claimed that absolutely no one has been offended by 2019's Aladdin.

Comment: And when totalitarianism came, it was welcomed with open arms. The few dissenters were quickly taken care of - taken to a place where they would no longer be able to offend anyone. And since all of history was soon deemed offensive, soon there was no history. No art. No humanity.

FBI used a Philly protester's Etsy profile, LinkedIn, and other internet history to charge her with setting police cars ablaze

Jeremy Roebuck
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Wed, 17 Jun 2020 16:55 UTC

U.S. DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA

As demonstrators shouted, fires burned outside City Hall, and Philadelphia convulsed with outrage over the death of George Floyd, television news helicopters captured footage of a masked woman with a peace sign tattoo and wearing a light blue T-shirt setting a police SUV ablaze.

More than two weeks after that climactic May 30 moment, federal authorities say they've identified the arsonist as 33-year-old Philadelphia massage therapist Lore Elisabeth Blumenthal by following the intricate trail of bread crumbs she left through her social media history and online shopping patterns over the years.

The path took agents from Instagram, where amateur photographers also captured shots of the masked arsonist, to an Etsy shop that sold the distinctive T-shirt the woman was wearing in the video. It led investigators to her LinkedIn page, to her profile on the fashion website Poshmark, and eventually to her doorstep in Germantown.

Their pursuit, described in court filings this week, sheds light on the extent to which the FBI and Justice Department have used news footage, online histories, and social media footprints to track down and identify demonstrators believed to be responsible for acts of violence or property destruction.

Comment: Those on the left who are going around cities committing arson, theft, and other anti-social acts would do well to keep in mind the abilities of law enforcement to use their extensive surveillance and investigative capabilities to track them down.

Thought control: 'Independent' Facebook fact-checker exposed as partisan smear factory packed with CNN alumni

RT
Fri, 19 Jun 2020 16:50 UTC

Facebook fact-checker Lead Stories is a biased outfit bristling with ex-CNN staffers that presents itself as neutral, despite most of its employees having donated to the Democratic Party, a conservative outlet has revealed.

The National Pulse (TNP), whose story about supposed financial links between Black Lives Matter, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, and fundraiser ActBlue was flagged as "partly false" by Lead Stories on Facebook, did some digging on Wednesday to find out who was behind the smear, after their efforts to contest the label were apparently stonewalled.

What they discovered was an organization staffed almost entirely by Democratic donors, half of whom had worked for CNN in the past. A quarter of the employees were recurring Democratic donors, TNP revealed, suggesting an egregious conflict of interest, given the story they'd flagged at the conservative outlet was about contributions to a Democratic presidential campaign.

Lead Stories founder Perry Sanders has donated over $10,000 to Democratic political campaigns, including Hillary Clinton's and Barack Obama's presidential runs, TNP showed, providing copious links to back up the laundry list of partisan affiliations it had stumbled across. Several other writers had Democratic contributions on their records too. One, Gita Smith, was listed in 99 separate small-dollar donations to various Democratic candidates, as well as some contributions directly to ActBlue and the activism group Indivisible.

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Society's Child

How Britain's feminist grass roots turned the tide against gender extremists

'It got ugly': What happened when Black Lives Matter protests came to small town Ohio

Elites who appease the baying mob's apology addiction have stripped apology of all meaning

Police op underway in Dijon, France after days of street skirmishes between Chechen and Maghreb gangs

The birth of the culture wars

About face: Ralph Northam is speaker for Virginia Dems even though they called for his resignation over blackface photo

Empty Coffins, Empty Hospitals: Brazilian MPs Expose Biggest Covid-19 Hoax Known To Date

Say what? UK Sky Cinema adds trigger warning for 2019 Aladdin remake for 'outdated attitudes'

FBI used a Philly protester's Etsy profile, LinkedIn, and other internet history to charge her with setting police cars ablaze

Thought control: 'Independent' Facebook fact-checker exposed as partisan smear factory packed with CNN alumni

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