Interview with Kara Dansky and Charlie Kirk

That's not how I interpreted what she said. She said that in the UK, the people speaking out about gender identity are mainly the rank and file of the Labour party whereas in the US, they are on the right of the political spectrum.

It very much sounded like she was talking about the current state of affairs in the UK.

I think HS2 was badly communicated from the start......but Britain now remains the only major country in Europe without a high speed rail infrastructure.

Our rail infrastructure is over-loaded and there is not enough capacity for all the freight that needs to use it, never mind the people and connections that many cities require in order to be connected and economically viable......apart from London, of course.

I think Farage dismisses the imprtance of rail because he doesn't understand its necessity.

I think what she meant was that most of the prominent voices would have at one point been associated or identified with the Left...which is true.

I agree. Also, I had never heard of her before but think she is a particularly fluent and persuasive speaker.

It was a lot harder than it looks. You basically had to build a platform that was uncancellable - anyone who said, for instance, TWANW could be debanked, demonitized, unable to schedule bookings, unable to hire promotion, unable to find hosts for events, have social media accounts suspended and have anyone carrying their message have their content branded as unsafe. There level of repression was (and still is) ridiculous.

He also spoke to detransitioners, including Ritchie Herron I think.

Well said Kara!
I'm very much a lefty but I agreed with Farage that HS2 should never have been started. We'll doubtlessly come at it from different angles and I soundly condemn his rhetoric on migrants and the climate.
You never agree or disagree 100% with anyone. And let's not forget Jo Cox and David Amess were murdered here for having opinions their murderers didn't like.

It’s a really great interview but I don’t agree with her statement (just before 4 mins) that opposition to gender identity in the UK is coming from the rank and file members of the Labour Party.

This has parallels with the UK, hasn't it? Julie Bindel writing opinion columns in the Mail, Hadley Freeman at the Times and Suzanne Moore for the Telegraph. The Graun should have been their place, but they decided to shut them up, sacrifices on the altar of trans.

Kara Dansky also tweeted this after Kirk’s death. It was one of the first things I read about him and possibly the best, I certainly found it very moving;

’I disagreed with Charlie Kirk on just about everything. But, we shared an opposition to "gender identity" and the abolition of sex.

‘He once had me on his show to discuss it. He was polite, outgoing, and funny.

‘During the interview, I said something about the "TQIA." He exclaimed, "I don't know what any of that means!" I said, "Don't worry, nobody does."

‘He and his entire audience laughed.

’I am not a Republican, and I am certainly not MAGA. But I am grieving his death in part because he was a human being, in part because he leaves behind a wife and two children, and in part because of what this says about American society.

’I will not take any part in any political violence, and I will stand with anyone, wherever they stand on the political spectrum, who will denounce it.

’I hope America can recover from this.

#RIP

‘EDIT: I will block anyone who comes on here to glorify violence.’

https://x.com/KDansky/status/1965887040010203358

Thanks for posting this. Very informative.

It’s so sad that your opinions can get you killed. Then people will colour you evil for the opinions they didn’t like.

I'm sure there’s a word, I wish I knew it, for painting people’s motivations unfairly. It’s like an exaggeration and a twisting until it looks monstrous.

This was a great interview. Kara was so clear and should be heard widely. Thank you to CK for giving her a respectful platform. They must have disagreed on so many points but showed that you can still agree on other points and talk about them.

The right-wing press was the only one who would platform radical feminists at the time. You didn’t have to actually agree with the Charlie Kirk and Matt Walsh types. They didn’t demand ideological obedience. (But your opponents would then try to smear you by association).