Feminist journalist banned from Twitter for writing 'men aren't women' | |
shoeshy (OP) User ID: 77144208 United States 11/29/2018 08:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Twitter’s Trans-Activist Decree "On November 15, I woke up to find my Twitter account locked, on account of what the company described as “hateful conduct.” In order to regain access, I was made to delete two tweets from October. Fair enough, you might think. Concern about the tone of discourse on social media has been widespread for years. Certainly, many have argued that Twitter officials should be doing more to discourage the vitriol and violent threats that have become commonplace on their platform. In this case, however, the notion that my commentary could be construed as “hateful” baffled me. One tweet read, simply, “Men aren’t women,” and the other asked “How are transwomen not men? What is the difference between a man and a transwoman?” That last question is one I’ve asked countless times, including in public speeches, and I have yet to get a persuasive answer. I ask these questions not to spread hate—because I do not hate trans-identified individuals—but rather to make sense of arguments made by activists within that community. Instead of answering such questions, however, these same activists insist that the act of simply asking them is evidence of hatred. The statement that “Men aren’t women” would have been seen as banal—indeed, tautological—just a few years ago. Today, it’s considered heresy—akin to terrorist speech that seeks to “deny the humanity” of trans-identified people who very much wish they could change sex, but cannot..." [link to quillette.com (secure)] |
shoeshy (OP) User ID: 77144208 United States 11/29/2018 08:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The moment this transgender debate got heated [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] Rogan and Shapiro on The Transgender Phenomenon [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] |
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