@Letsgetreadytocrumble
Great article. I really feel like the tide might be starting to turn with the whole 'cancel culture' thing, not just on the trans issue but with anything. I'm hoping that soon enough it will become very 'uncool' to publicly call for heads on platters simply for a difference in opinion, and that tolerance of different views will become more widely accepted.
Let's hope so.
I had thought the other day one effect of all the baying mobs, outrage hysteria and petitions demanding people are sacked for expressing an opinion considered 'wrong' may be that political protest becomes easier to ignore. It's just noise, it's meaningless, it's absurd in so many instances these days.
What happens when we are faced with genuine threats, rather than just unpopular opinion? How do we protest, then? To counter the madness of counter-culture, we learn to ignore it. And then our recourse to genuine peaceful protest is weakened.
I recall sitting in the road on the day war was declared in Iraq - an illegal war, FFS, something that genuinely cost hundreds of thousands of lives. At least a million people marched in protest that day, we stopped traffic. It had no impact.
Are we protesting to make ourselves feel better, to reassure ourselves we are in the right, to express ourselves? Does it actually have any effect?