Posted on 09/04/2025 1:42:57 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
We’ve known for a very long time in this country that if you said the wrong thing about the trans issue, you could be canceled.
But now, finally, there are people — heretofore on the Left — who are acknowledging that the threat of cancellation has been real.
This is just one of the beautiful flowering fruits of the Trump administration: people are now free to say things they weren’t allowed to say before.
It’s not clear whether people are deciding that they want to say what is currently more popular or if they genuinely repent having been bullied into acceptance of the trans agenda.
On Wednesday, Malcolm Gladwell, a famous bestselling author, explained his amended point of view on transgender athletes, meaning men playing against women in sports. He was speaking specifically about a 2022 appearance at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, where he moderated a panel discussion in which they talked about the path forward for the inclusion of trans athletes in sports, meaning men competing against women.
On Wednesday, Gladwell stated to 2022 panel co-host Ross Tucker, “I’m ashamed of my performance at that panel because I share your position 100%, and I was cowed. The idea of saying anything on this issue — I was, I believe in retrospect — in a dishonest way, I was objective in a dishonest way.”
That is honest. Many people were so scared of saying what was obviously true that they didn’t say it.
This happens all the time in politics. It happened in Great Britain during the Rotherham grooming scandal, when members of the media specifically decided not to cover the fact that there were Muslim grooming gangs, Muslim men, who were grooming underage white girls for sex and then passing them around.
People in the media knew...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailywire.com ...
Apparently, you still can’t refer to them as “trannies” on X, though, or you get a “hateful comment” warning.
Why do the yutes fear “cancellation?” I would consider it a badge of honor.
No problem. Call them hermaphrodite aspirants.
No problem. Call them hermaphrodite aspirants
They realize trans is a sevear mental disorder that they have been lumped in with and they dont want to be associated with them.
dont be surprised to see gays cheering the isolating of trans people from the rest of society.
The breathatarian lifestyle is low in vitamins.
Transvestites are what they are...men dressing as women or the opposite which are few. Gender dysphoria is a mental disease and every last one of them should be institutionalized like everyone else in the LGBTWRSTUVWXYZ freaks show. Pedophiles, another psychological freak POS on the other hand should be put down like rabid dogs.
Get a lawyer. You are entitled to a major cash award.
That is correct.
I am currently blocked on X (again) and they falsely accused me of "promoting violence" (again) for simply posting "Yet another psycho tranny." in response to a story about a recent incident of a tranny committing violence.
I wonder what my chances are of suing X for libel/slander/defamation or the like?
If you are not working for the government you can be fired for just about any reason. There is a tiny list of things you can not be fired for but not being on board with the trans agenda is not on the list.
Ten or fifteen years down the road you might possibly win in court but your legal bills will be through the roof and what will you have lived on in the mean time?
Nobody will hire you because at that point you are toxic.
Ironic, as the UK police just arrested a producer for speaking the same “unspoken truths”
In fact you can only speak the truth in the US now, and even then not in mainstream media, unless you want to be ostracized.
To be fair people are now free to speak the truth within the USA without fear of prosecution, but only until 2029, depending on who wins the white house.
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