The right side of history strikes again

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https://www.thetimes.com/article/b52af465-f370-4c6f-9ff2-3d98bd919b33?shareToken=3e662d7ec04e388dd71cf30fb0994a66

Having seen animal rights activists and trans rights activists, I’d say there’s a big overlap. Quite possibly the same people just out for a fight.

@SinnerBoy I think you meant “proscribed”? Prescribed is the very opposite 🙂

I think there’s an issue with Times commenting at the moment as I can’t see them if I read it on my phone browser but can on the App. DH has the opposite problem and can only see them on his phone browser and not the app. I’m an Apple and he’s an Android.

If the government were remotely serious about VAWG thy would actually do something about these disgusting men

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Trans definitions of violence:

Smashing windows to intimidate women, and causing £000s of criminal damage (Bash Back, at Filia): non-violent

misgendering: literal violence.

In terms of the white middle class Palestine activists Venn diagram.

Maybe not so much the aggrieved Dawah Bros like Shahid Butt or Akhmed Yakoob who are standing on Gaza tickets. I'd pay to watch Bash Back try to recruit activists to allow Transwomen into the women's section of local mosques though

“Poppy bear”, the newsts member of the polycule had on a bash back badge I. The fist video I saw of him in Ewan’s Twitter. Long before Filia or anything. It might have been when Ewan had his bra fitting at M&S. I think in Cambridge. Poppy was in a scooter and had on a military type vest, which is what caught my attention. The badge was on tha if my memory is correct.

I don't think it's been mentioned here yet but Jolyon Maugham and Bash Back follow each other on Bluesky.

Abigail Thorn/Philosophytube gave BB and TKDB some positive publicity in a recent video, the end credits included this..

And straight to the trans people - no acknowledgement that women will be at the receiving end of these weapons.

Yes there appears to be quite an overlap. I also have suspicions about the involvement of the Mermaids Mango programme in radicalising many of these young people.

I follow BB on BlueSky. Just to see what's going on.

But i find this post by Jolyon quite stunning.

The image is his BlueSky post and the text reads: ‪Jolyon Maugham KC‬ ‪@jolyon.goodlawproject.org‬
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The non-violent direct action promoted by Bash Back is the inevitable, and I would say legitimate, response to a society whose institutions, politics and media systematically dehumanise trans people. No pasarán.

I wonder if Jolyon has ever been reported to Prevent.....

When I read this the other day I assumed comments were not enabled, but soon saw that comments were absent from everything. A quick google and the problem seemed to be with my version of Android on my Samsung tablet. I installed the Times app from the Play Store and it's now showing comments again.

What do the comments say, @TeaAndStrumpets ?

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James Shove
3H AGO

Any group advocating violent action against property or people should be proscribed in law.

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K Burke
3H AGO

There is a huge piece of research just published by the Finnish gender clinics. It shows astonishing levels of mental illness in the more recent cohort of Finnish adolescents referred to these clinics. It shows that there is a very signifi...

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Denise Kilpatrick
3H AGO

Yes, but but but but, authentic self and all that.

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Warren Edwards
3H AGO

If you want to protest show your face and show you have nothing to hide. Should apply yo all protests

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T Wilson
2H AGO

Show it all, not just the face!

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Christopher Dudman
3H AGO

So clearly a terrorist organisation. Who is funding them and pulling their strings- Russia, Iran, China?

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A Griffiths
3H AGO

Yet more proof that this is a delusional mental illness, with vulnerable people being encouraged to believe that they are being persecuted.

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Daniel White
2H AGO

Oppression? They have the same exact rights as everyone else, via protected characteristics. More so in fact as they are largely seen as vulnerable.

These are just criminals, pure and simple.

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Bethany Hannay
3H AGO

They are left-wing as violence is the harbour of the socialist mindset.

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Megan Bird
31M AGO

I can’t agree that socialism is the purveyor of violence look at world history as much violence has come from the right as the left.

Look at the rhetoric of POTUS, he’s hardly leftist.

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Alan Rodger
3H AGO

And some of our government departments and public services and perhaps still some businesses take advice and guidance on trans matters from fellow traveller organisations of this lot who advocate illegal disruptive protests falling short ...

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DHanskov
2H AGO

"A militant transgender activist group has issued a “direct action” guide to members, urging them to arm themselves and carry out repeated illegal attacks on MPs and organisations."

Groups that encourage violence and other criminal acts aga...

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Geraint Davies
1H AGO

It never ceases to amaze me how aggressively male these people are.

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Richard Lambert
2H AGO

Do these brain absent more- ons (sic) realise that they and their views would not be tolerated 5 minutes in the countries they also support.

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David Tanner
1H AGO

This is incitement to serious criminality. I do hope that action is being taken.

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David Ruskin
2H AGO

Well aren’t all those men getting angry that reality is finally coming about.

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HJZ Ward
1H AGO

No mention of a police investigation in this article?

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S Bailey
2H AGO

Back in the 70s it was unions doing their best to disrupt so much. Then after the fall of the USSR we found out that so many Union officials and leaders received Russian money to keep disrupting. Nowadays it is identity politics that drive...

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andrew clark
2H AGO

This going to mean attacks from female impersonators and people with blue hair, bashing us with their handbags?

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Gary Phillips
1H AGO

Let's be honest here they have probably watched how our politicians, police, media etc have been cowered by the Muslim extremists and come to the conclusion that physical intimidation works.

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Paul O Brien
1H AGO

Pure terrorism

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Steve Russell
49M AGO

Are they the same people that have been threatening J K Rowling, Rosie Duffield, and Sharron Davies?

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Arabella Prideaux
1H AGO

Tol. Come on. It’s true. They are crazies

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Bethany Hannay
3H AGO

They are not a trans group!

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Mark Burns
3H AGO

There are no trans, it simply doesn’t exist, you cannot cross from one gender to another.

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Ian Clinton
6M AGO

The Times censor will not allow me to quote from the report

they published on the 22 Jan 2023, about a trans protest in

Glasgow that involved 3 SNP politicians. Or to draw attention

to a report that appeared in yesterday’s The Record newsp...

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Alison Jenner
1H AGO

Funding from activist billionaires in USA like the Pritzker, Stryker, Arcus and Open Society Foundations (all easily googled) means these are not members of poor, oppressed, unlawfully discriminated against groups but well funded organisat...

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Deborah Tompkinson
54M AGO

One believes George Orwell identified this type of promotion as RightThink.

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Arabella Prideaux
1H AGO

m0 d3 R a t0 r/s Don’t l1 ke

The T R. U. T. H Neither do activists

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Sorry not very technical but I did my best!

Holy fuck. Thats jumped the shark. And we all thought he'd actually already done so years back.

No pasarán

They really do see themselves as brave freedom fighters, don't they? The cosplaying action is strong with this bunch

As for their activities, if you're going to play fast and loose with the law anyway I'd not want to be taking legal advice from the GLP. In fact, I'd not take advice from them as to what day of the week it is.

A couple more screenshots from Bluesky of JMs defence of Bash Back (posted in the last hour)

But they aren't non-violent. They are openly advocating violence and criminal behaviour.

It's nicely prominent in the print edition (p5).

But they identify as non-violent 🧐

Wow, JM really is having quite the mid-life crisis 🙄🤯

Palestine Action also claim to be non-violent despite breaking a police woman's spine with a sledgehammer.

Why not redefine words to suit your agenda?