People think of the leftwing movement as united, but it is
actually riddled with hairline cracks that occasionally grow into major
fractures. The latest and most obvious of these is the split in feminism
between the TERF's and the intersectional lobby. This has become deeply
vitriolic, as per usual. It should act as a warning. This is just a taste of
what would come if the left ever achieved their objectives, God forbid! They
would turn on each other. The intersectional feminists include people like Kristi
Winters, Kevin Logan and their community. TERF is an acronym for "Trans
Exclusionary Radical Feminist" and it includes most of the aging second-wavers,
plus some younger recruits like JK Rowling and Graham Linehan. The first time
this division reached the attention of people outside the milieu directly involved
was at the 2018 London Pride event. A group of women barged in at the front of
the march and with gender essentialist placards and slogans. Their organization
was called "Get the L Out", implying that lesbians were unhappy with
their treatment within LGBT culture. Sargon of Akkad made a light-hearted video
about it. He found the whole rumpus very amusing. "Which side am I backing
here?" he chuckled. He also felt satisfaction that his own predictions
about the inevitable struggle within the left, as they fight over the dwindling
supply of victimhood cheesecake, came true. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adb-6zTzwOQ.
Unfortunately he has changed his position completely since then. Sargon, real
name Carl Benjamin, has left the sidelines and planted his flag with the TERF's,
like several others on the dissident right. This is partly because he is such
an enthusiastic contrarian and since 2018 the intersectionals have been granted
the establishment position. TERF's are now the outsiders. This has sometimes led
to what I consider genuine injustice, such as the cancellation of JK Rowling, see:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10726355/amp/Harry-Potter-Lord-Rings-missed-BBC-list-books-Queens-70-year-reign.html.
Trans critics have also been arrested and have faced legal persecution. This is
never justified for expressing an opinion. Sargon has done an interview with
Posie Parker, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8ITHh5shWw.
We have also seen other TERF's like Julie Bindel and Germaine Greer being
chummy with other dissident righters like Milo Yiannopoulos and Douglas Murray.
To be fair to Sargon, he is not merely excrement-stirring here. He is also
motivated by what he sees as the exploitation and abuse of people with gender
dysphoria by trans politics, especially children. I think he's correct.
What Sargon somehow seems to have forgotten is what the F
stands for in TERF. I can't help worrying that he is walking into a trap.
Radical feminists do not care about male children, let alone male adults. This strange
new detente between the TERF's and the dissident right is nothing more than a
coalition of convenience. According to the rad-fem conspiracy theories, the trans
lobby is merely the patriarchy sending its best secret agents with the most
convincing undercover identity into women's spaces. White men cause all the
problems in the world and therefore a world without us would be a paradise.
This is a very dangerous idea that is unfortunately not very original. History
teaches us that when people who feel demographic hatred gain political power it
always ends in atrocity. What the hell is Sargon of Akkad
doing supporting these genocidal-gendercidal maniacs!? I fear this pact will
end badly. I just hope Sargon learns a lesson from it.
See here for background: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/08/political-correctness-portal.html.
See here for background: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/08/political-correctness-portal.html.
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