In which the Orkney News* goes beyond offensive and enters the territory of deranged **MNHQ corrected Times to News as OP had made an error**

[ArabellaScott]

https://theorkneynews.scot/2025/04/22/first-they-came-for/

Content warning: the most offensive, garbled, incoherent, bullshit I've read in a while. Illustrated with pictures from Buchenwald.

The Orkney Times equates the Supreme Court judgement with fascism.

'On Monday, 21 April, The Orkney News, reported on the demonstration which had taken place the day before where those concerned about the Supreme Court judgment and the impact it will have on Transgender issues met together in Kirkwall. It should come as no surprise to anyone paying attention to the drift into Fascism in the USA that Trans people are feeling very vulnerable, not just in the States, but here too. Reading many of the comments from those who supported the successful appeal to the Supreme Court, they illustrate the divisive nature of the discussions around gender and identity in Scotland. This is the intolerance which sows the seeds of fascism.'

Who the fuck thinks this is okay?

Who'd have thunk that the Northern Isles were a hotbed of transactivism 🙄

Someone needs to be reined in, that's dreadful.

That is so offensive.

I just don't have words for how fucking offensive it is.

Blimey, that is insane,
I wish they'd leave Martin Niemoeller alone.

Wow. It's women expressing happiness that the rights of women and girls have been protected that embody "the intolerance which sows the seeds of fascism." Not the TRAs who've been women bashing for years?

The whole thing is unhinged and offensive.

I've made a mistake - it's the Orkney News, not the Times.

'Orkney News Ltd is a community based, not for profit online newspaper. It is free to view. It aims to provide reliable factual news and to give a voice to those who would otherwise go unheard'

Unsure, but could all be the work of one person.

That is utterly hideous. Can you report to Ofcom? Or similar?
Exploiting persecuted Jews to make their ill-informed point.

"reliable factual news" - seriously?

That is horrific.

"A woman of independent mind" is the author!

They don't understand facism. Here we have the Gov respecting the decision of an independent judiciary - that is the complete opposite of facism.

Are they Wee Frees up there - a strict religion

That's what I was trying to find out. This is possibly just one person effectively publishing a blog. 10k followers on Facebook.

They have an article on a protest from the weekend, with a photo of someone holding a sign that calls JKR a 'cunt'.

https://theorkneynews.scot/2025/04/21/demonstrators-gather-in-support-of-trans-rights/

No. That's the Western Isles.

That is shocking, it's so offensive. Imagine using images of Buchenwald like that, think of everything those poor people went through, the torture, the pain, the enslavement.
It isn't the same as wearing a tank top, calling yourself Marjorie and pushing into the women's toilets.
I think we know who the neo fascists are.

What's going on in Orkney? Seriously?

When you start saying we should interpret democratic laws based on what we think they ought to say, rather than what they actually do say, and anyone who disagrees with you on what they ought to say is evil - that's when you've start to drift into fascistic thought.

@ArabellaScott I wonder if CST could advise? Even if it's not strictly their remit they might know what to do. And they definitely should be made aware of it.

https://cst.org.uk/about-cst

I'd class using images of starving and dying Jews as a hate crime, personally.

Well who knows if it's a woman, or not? Shudders at memories of Dr Beth's assertions on this status.

When out of context, then yes possibly.

Isn't it? It just absolutely makes me shudder, it's so vile.
I think it's worth reporting to the Jewish Community group who monitor this sort of thing. I'll look them up.

“Sowing the seeds of fascism” isn’t “equating to fascism” it’s a slippery slope argument where even the most sane thing gets called a sign of impending descent into fascism. It’s a bit of the end is nigh doomsaying.

I assume you've got all the screenshots/archives @ArabellaScott ?

Edited to add: I meant just in case this were to suddenly disappear, nothing to see here

No. Wrong islands. Free Church is the Western isles. Orkney is in the north.

And most members of the Free Church would absolutely know that so called trans women are men.

Why? Buchenwald is where they sent the pink triangle, LGBT, prisoners. So while its hyperbole to compare to the Holocaust, they at least got the right death camp relevant to LGBT.