Was anyone else listening to R4 yesterday at 1:30 pm?
It ran a programme called: If at First You Don’t Secede. It discussed the SNP’s attempts to secede. If at first you don’t secede, should you really try, try, try again? Journalist Dani Garavelli wants to find out.
When the journalist discussed Sturgeon ‘troubles’ over the trans issue, her wording was Sturgeon’s "support for a vulnerable minority" was problematic as it didn’t take gender critical views into account.
‘Vulnerable minority’... like SJB or Bryson or White or Kardashian? Or any of the many disturbed and violent men identifying as women. Indeed, any of the problematic TiM in Scotland.
It was just a few sentences in the whole discussion by this female Scottish journalist but the careful wording is representative of the dogged, wilful and resolutely blinkered virtue signalling that characterises the #bekind narrative. Seemingly deliberately misrepresenting women’s well founded concerns.
Conveniently, Dani makes no mention of Sturgeon’s problems being linked to allowing the double rapist Isla Bryson to move to a female prison estate. No explanation to the listeners of how this facially tattoo’ ed hulking rapist might be considered ‘vulnerable’.
That is bias in action and it’s very subtle. All about nuanced use of language.