This little exchange is causing ripples over at X/Twitter.
Just in case you are wondering who this is, he is an erstwhile Green candidate who was subsequently dropped. He is now a member of the SNP.
Anyway, having made the threat and being subject to massive ridicule, he deleted the tweet and retracted the threat of legal action. Presumably because someone with a little more common sense pointed out that such action would not only fail, but would be very, very expensive. Instead he replaced it with a very strong letter of complaint to the organisers, which, so far, appears to have gone unanswered.
Yes, people ripped into him for his appalling use of English (author’s FFS! and litteracy) as well as his entitlement and deservedly so. What is interesting, however, is that the victim card appears not to be working anymore. He tried the trans card, nope, no good, kaput. Then he tried the disabled card – that, apparently is why his use of English is so bad, not because he is too idle and stupid to proofread before pressing ‘send.’ Nope, that didn’t work either. In fact, he has made himself look a right tit and everyone is pointing and laughing.
Now contrast and compare with just a couple of years ago. Those Twitter commenters would have been shut down and expelled from the platform and the organisers of the literary festival would have issued a craven apology and disinvited Bindel and Joyce for fear of the trans mob cancelling them. Yet now, people are openly calling him out and laughing at him.
Yes, there is still plenty of this madness to be eradicated, but there is a whiff of change in the wind and these freaks really don’t know how to handle it. Their magic incantations don’t work any more.
Fun, isn’t it?
Ahahahaha! Couldn’t have happened to a better person.
I too am enjoying these instances of the trans card being declined. I think the mob got a bit too big for its britches (breeches?)
They always do. And when the pendulum swings back, it’s always a shock to them.
Dear Sir or Madam (he/she)
Thank you for your communication. In view of the threat of legal action, any further correspondence should be addressed to our legal representatives at 21 St Margaret (she/her) Street, Man(he/him)chester
Thank you
To some extent I think that the trans people started off pushing at an open door. Yes there were people who were disgusted or who would take the piss, but for the vast majority the attitude is indifference. You folk can dress how you want to we really aren’t that bothered. But that wasn’t enough, if you’re not cheering and clapping as well then you’re a bigot and a hater. For some reason people don’t like that and have started pushing back.
The British are a pretty tolerant lot. However, the incessant demands for respect and celebration, the month-long Pride festivals, and the cancellation of perfectly reasonable opinions caused an inevitable backlash. The tolerance has gone, and they only have themselves to blame for it.
“The British are a pretty tolerant lot”
That’s been our downfall, being far too tolerant for far too long.
Shirley, being referred to Arkle v Pressdram would have sufficed?
Had it been addressed to me, that is the exact response he would have got.
Being ignored when you are a narcissist is the worst possible outcome.
There is something about the degenerates that they have to be extreme and ram their perversions down other (normal) people’s throats. Probably just the though of anything penetrative that does it for them!
Lr – I agree with you wholeheartedly of course regarding the Trans campaigners well exceeding limits of tolerance. Two caveats.
– Anti Trans feminists ought to (but most don’t) be aware that the tactics employed by Big Trans are identical to those they used to silence defenders of men’s rights in the 90s. So I would always suggest that you have an attitude akin to that of Voltaire regarding defending your right to say things even if I disagree with them.
– The persistence of the other pillars of evil, Diversity and Net Zero means by no means is victory assured. Big Trans seems to have deep pockets and we know from the various cretins on X that evil genuinely never sleeps. These people are unlikely to go quietly.
I reckon that ‘Big Trans’ is really the thin edge of the paedo wedge. Normalising degeneracy. I know that ‘Normal’ Homosexuals are like normal people in as much as they keep their private lives, private. The Pride waving narcissists are useful idiots for those that want to distract normal people from what certain members (cough) of TPTB want. Denormalising the Hetero Family unit is part of this, making broken families’ children available for whaterver they want.
Sorry that’s a bit garbled, I know what I want to say, but sadly I am not very erudite.
I think I get what you mean. Most of the victims of the Muslim grooming gangs seem to have been girls from dysfunctional homes. Why? Well if my daughter had been involved I would have cut off their nuts with a rusty bean tin lid.
If the country had anything about it, girls from dysfunctional homes should have been given payback by large groups of lynching mobs.
That this didn’t happen tells you that it was probably a night that Strictly was on the TV.
” to those they used to silence defenders of men’s rights in the 90s”
Which is still going on to this day and why everyone in that tweet would be better off thrown down an old well.
Okay, time to make a minimal effort to get parliament to do something about the mass rape gangs.
Please support this petition by being one of the 5 required to sponsor it, or sign it and share widely with others.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/712375/sponsors/new?token=siUdePF1QD2GHZX7pX3E
The text:
Allow a free vote on an amended Outlawries Bill that outlaws mass child rapists.
Bring forward (and vote on) an amended Outlawries Bill that lists all those that have perpetrated or ignored mass child rapes since 1980. Those named on the bill will have their goods & assets seized by the state for compensation of the victims, and be placed outside of the protection of any law.
There is public outrage about the mass raping of children across the UK which requires a much more robust demonstration of justice. Parliament has the ability to further sanction those responsible and convince the public that this issue is of the utmost seriousness. The list should include mass child rapists where groups of 3 or more adults (over 18) are convicted of raping children (under 16). It should also include officials who neglected to protect the victims from the perpetrators.