Trans activists hound Nadhim Zahawi off university campus

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"Trans activists have hounded Nadhim Zahawi off a Russell Group campus, accusing him of “inciting hatred” by defining women as “adult human females”, The Telegraph can reveal.

The Education Secretary was met with dozens of student protesters chanting “Zahawi is a transphobe” and “Tory scum” while visiting the University of Warwick on Friday.

The Cabinet minister had to be ushered away from campus by security guards in dramatic scenes, as he was pursued by activists brandishing trans flags and placards."

Read more and see video on Telegraph's website

www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/05/30/watch-trans-activists-hound-nadhim-zahawi-university-campus/

and on twitter

twitter.com/ewansomerville/status/1531339153958440961

& I realise being offended is just my problem - should have said I really dislike it - but still my problem - still can't see how adult human female is a transphobic dog whistle though. Although I don't get open water swimming either.

MagnoliTaint

Zahawi has also made very concerning comments regarding corporal punishment [these are not quoted] and has made other transphobic remarks such as using the common transphobic dog-whistle "adult human female".'

• *had a look for what this was and found

Daily mail 21/04/22 Nadhim Zahawi yesterday admitted that his wife has smacked their daughter 'on occasion' while rejecting fresh calls for a smacking ban in England, leading to criticism from children's workers for a 'lack of safeguarding knowledge'.

Or men pretending to be women.

Even if "Adult human female" WERE a "common transphobic dogwhistle" (it's not, or at least that is not its main, original, primary, or most important contemporary use), so what? TWAW has become a common misogynist dogwhistle - and arguably a rape apologist one too, given how often it is accompanied by threats of sexual violence. So then: it's just as ethically OK and as reasonable for me to shriek "Forest Gump!" and hit people who say this? What's the point, and where does it end?

From the same article

Rejecting calls for a smacking ban in England, Mr Zahawi added: 'My very strong view is that actually we have got to trust parents on this and parents being able to discipline their children is something that they should be entitled to do.'

'We have got to just make sure we don't end up in a world where the state is nannying people about how they bring up their children.'

I'm going to agree with them on this one. as I find that a concerning view. But then I was regularly beaten black and blue for incredibly inconsequential things, so maybe I'm biased? missed

There are parents who can't be trusted. So on this one i would prefer that it was illegal to smack children. If you smack your husband it's domestic abuse if you beat the shit out of your kid it's perfectly legal.

It's not a transphobic dog whistle. The activists call it that, because addressing the statement with debate is something they would lose so they want to make the statement interpreted as something hidden, a nasty transphobic slur of some kind.

Debating the statement would lay it bare that the activists do want the group currently consisting of adult female human beings not have any names at all and not to be able to coordinate politically or even to discuss its sex-related concerns by using proper terms for them.

2 things ; I am fed up with any opposition being framed as 'transphobic'. It's not a fear of something ,is it?
I am fed up with the word 'cis' . If I can self ID , then I am a woman ,
END OF.

On the subject of 'transphobic dogwhistles', on the Jeremy Vine show a while ago, there was a non binary woman who compared using 'adult human female' to racist football supporters throwing a banana onto a football pitch, ie, saying that although there's nothing inherently racist about a banana per se, the intent is clear.

Bit of a stretch....

How utterly outrageous that he was forced to leave because it was a security issue. Someone was actually hit on the back of the head.

This has to stop.

It is not okay to assault people just because they disagree with you.

I hope he will now see the issue is much more serious than the government have to now realised (although many others have far worse experiences simply trying to express their views). Toxic activists are literally shutting people down, and we need new laws to stop this kind of behaviour in its tracks.

They don’t do succinct and punchy very well, do they 😂

Times coverage this morning : www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cb684882-e05f-11ec-8bdd-c253e043f5f0?shareToken=03748f4384461f31563eb2519551ee11

Again the mention of a blow landing on one of the officials.

Thuggery doesn't win hearts and mind, boys.

It has been brought to our attention over the past few weeks that the Warwick Conservative Association is running an external speaker event, inviting Nadhim Zahawi,

Would this have been a student Conservative Association?

Brave students who may well feel unsafe on campus.

But then I don't imagine the young women at the centre of the rape chat scandal felt safe. Warwick has form for failing to protect students from other students.

I cant stand Zahawi, he's thick and unctuous. However, this is unacceptable behaviour by the cretin students. #nodebate doesn't mean 'won't debate', it means cant debate. They have no debating skills, no ability to see the other side of a question, no capacity for critical thought. It is horrifying that a proper uni like Warwick thinks this is OK.

They don’t do succinct and punchy very well, do they

No, it is not a hallmark of this movement to be pithy or write elegant prose.

When I was a student - some politician came to our campus and there were cuts being proposed.

We gathered and booed (chanted and swore). Got a bollocking from the Head for acting like wee thugs.

Is the head here scared of the wee students?

I can’t imagine having been a student Conservative, but they are being treated terribly by their peers here. They have a right to invite mainstream speakers to talk to them about their politics. People can protest at a distance but this wasn’t that.

I rather imagine this thuggish minority of middle-class losers have a history of hating their mothers, possibly to a pathological degree, and think it's exciting to be playing at urban guerillas.

To think that many Greenham women did jail time for so much less. I remember being chased by the police when we were just tying ribbons to the perimeter, and two of our group were arrested. (What is it about women with ribbons that's so terrifying?!) This lot, the TRA extremists, seem to have been given immunity from police action though. Why? Why have so many different police forces seemingly adopted this policy of 'don't disperse, don't interfere, don't arrest'?

Indeed not. Very poor standard of English in that statement. 'That' used repeatedly instead of 'who'. This is a very minor detail given the matter of the news reports, but it irked me.

When I was a student, a million years ago, the largest and most active political society on campus was the Federation of Conservative Students. They were probably enjoying a boost from Mrs Thatcher's recent election victory and certainly benefited from the lack of unity on the left. The Labour Club was tiny and in the process of being taken over by Militant Tendency. The student wing of the SWP and various other extreme left groups were very vocal at Student Union meetings, but never acted in any concerted way to actually achieve anything. I remember those meetings as quite noisy and heated, but there was no violence, unless you count the nickname given to a prominent Tory student at the time who later became a government minister. Even now I'm afraid I think of him as John Shittingdale.

As a politician who has been discriminated against all his life, I wonder what he makes of this absurd first world 'problem'. These campaigners really need to get a grip - maybe a week or two in the wilderness or living in absolute poverty would give them some perspective and grounding? Sheer idiocy.

It's a free country where people should be free to hold and express their beliefs, even extremist beliefs, but the limits are attempting to control and enforce one belief system on others. The limit of personal freedoms are other people's rights and freedoms, and that is where the balance has been lost.

The absolute arrogance and intolerance of this group and the belief in their absolute right to punish, harass and control to enforce that no one dares thwart them, their fixed belief that they do not have to tolerate anyone or anything existing that in any way is not in keeping with and compliant with their personal beliefs and choices? That is what needs putting back in its a box with a strong hand. What the belief actually is, is irrelevant.

This is a multi faith country, religious tolerance is within the law, would the government please kindly enforce the bloody law. I sincerely hope seeing this extremism and indulged behaviour first hand opens the cabinet's eyes and gets them off their bottoms.

And I am painfully aware that if any party other than the bloody tory shower get into power we will see this religious extremism become a fixed part of the law before we've had time to blink.

A Department for Education source said: "This proves the need for the Freedom of Speech Bill and is more evidence against those who say there is no such thing as a chilling culture on campus."

Well at least someone at the DfE has noticed.

"A Department for Education source said: "This proves the need for the Freedom of Speech Bill and is more evidence against those who say there is no such thing as a chilling culture on campus."

Definitely an own goal.
The sad thing is peaceful protest is also likely to be impacted.

How times have changed. Just 3-4 years ago young women at Warwick were campaigning about rape culture and the WhatsApp scandal. Now it is young women protesting for the erasure if their sex. The photo accompanying the article showed all young women as far as one could tell.

Cross post @DdraigGoch

I don’t understand how these young people get into university in the first place. They really don’t sound very bright.

What a lot of very good girls. Sigh.

I find this beyond sad, I really do.