Imane Khelif Article- First Line Says it All

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Spiked Online’s article on Imane Khelif. I won’t quote the first line because the monitors will get this thread deleted. But take a look.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/08/16/it-isnt-cyberbullying-to-speak-the-truth/

Also contains some bangers like this.

”For these men’s-rights weirdos masquerading as progressives, when blokes in dresses insult and assault women, it’s ‘activism’, and when women push back, it’s ‘bullying’.”

And for the monitors, yes, I know it’s Brendan O’Neill. Yes, I am sure he has written things I don’t agree with in the past. No, I am not going to stop reading him. Fuck off, in advance.

Spiked-online is an offshoot of Living Marxism, which was the magazine of the Revolutionary Communist Party. It’s now often described as right-wing.

Along with the Communist Party’s Morning Star, it’s one of the few news sources with a left-wing background that supports women’s single-sex rights.

It’s bizarre and shameful that most of the political Left meekly toes the transgenderist line.

And thanks for the link, OP.

He absolutely does. In every way.

Great article.

Too fucking right.

Excellent article

This case speaks to one of the most troubling trends of our time: the Orwellian rebranding of criticism as a crime. That it is even possible people will be punished for using their voices to defend women’s rights is a testament to how far down the rabbit hole of gender lunacy we have tumbled. Let’s ring the bell on this crap.

Brilliant article thank you.
Agree about The Morning Star.

Thanks for sharing OP and thank you, Brendan.

The thread about ‘the letter’ got really useful just before it closed. This would have been an excellent addition!

Great article, he's on fire!

Brendan O'Neill has been an unwavering and incredibly brave supporter of women's rights since this horror show began. His ability to cut through the bullshit and tell it like it is fantastic - I love him for it!!!

Fantastic articles- gets it spot on 👍

Thank you for posting.

This is good to know:

‘French penal law doesn’t apply to acts committed outside of France against foreign nationals’. And yet Khelif’s case is still significant. It feels like a symbolic attack on those who dare to speak the truth about sex. It feels like an absurdist assault on reason that could have a horribly chilling effect on public discussion, especially in France.

they love it when uppity women are slapped down, whether it’s physically or metaphorically.
That's the core of it - women know your place.

Thanks for sharing. I do enjoy it when good writers are able to show the nonsense for what is. Succinctly and with humour.

A man exposing his cock in a women’s changing room is trans rights, a woman saying ‘Get the hell out of here’ is bigotry. Males invading women’s sports is ‘progress’, women standing up for women’s sports is ‘harassment’.

Strong sentences that sum up the current situation.

Spot on Brendan
"It’s so transparent. For these men’s-rights weirdos masquerading as progressives, when blokes in dresses insult and assault women, it’s ‘activism’, and when women push back, it’s ‘bullying’.
A man exposing his cock in a women’s changing room is trans rights, a woman saying ‘Get the hell out of here’ is bigotry.
Males invading women’s sports is ‘progress’, women standing up for women’s sports is ‘harassment’. That they cheered Khelif’s pummelling of female boxers and are now cheering Khelif’s criminal complaint against Rowling and others makes creepy sense – they love it when uppity women are slapped down, whether it’s physically or metaphorically. Whether it’s in the ring or in the courts. Whether it’s with a punch to the head or a gag to the mouth. Pipe down, bitches."

It’s so transparent

All of it is transparent. The whole bloody lot. It's complete insanity that we've ever got to this point.

This needs to be shouted from the rooftops but will be seen as a 'crime' as quoted by pp.

There’s hubris here. As someone who also went through male puberty, my advice to Khelif would be to avoid accusing other people of ‘bullying’ when you’ve just been publicly fighting women and winning their medals. Khelif’s cheerleaders in the cranky gender clique are even worse. These are the kind of people who turned a blind eye when <a class="break-all" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/28/i-thought-i-would-be-crushed-to-death/&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1723823387235883&usg=AOvVaw1mcHn35YXs39Rx4pzUBWDc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kellie Jay-Keenen was rounded on by a mob of feral misogynists in New Zealand. And who shrugged when the male ex-con turned trans nutter Sarah Jane Bakerer told a crowd in London to punch TERFs ‘in the fucking face’. And who said ‘So what?’ when a sexist pig held up a placard saying ‘Decapitate TERFsFs’ at a pro-trans rally in Glasgow last year. And who said nothing when sports presenter Laura Woods received a storm of death threatsts – against both herself and her unborn child – merely for making a positive comment about a newspaper article that discussed the Khelif scandal. And yet now they bleat about bullying.

Well said Brendan!

Boxer needs a Karyotype test to prove boxer is not an XY .

It’s so obvious people will call out a heavily built masculine XY Boxing a female XX person.

Excellent, thanks for sharing

Bloody brilliant article. Agree with it all.

Another ex Revolutionary Communist Party member is Kenan Malik. I always appreciate his articles in the guardian. Kenan thinks the left has abandoned Class and gone down a blind alley of ID politics. I'm over simplifying and he puts it far more eloquently than I could. The RCP certainly produced its share of clever debaters : Claire Fox is another one. Also a woman who was a special adviser to B Johnson , name escapes me.

Excellent article.