Posted on 11/27/2018 1:34:00 AM PST by Texas Fossil
Meghan Murphy, the founder of Feminist Current and a journalist who has written for New Statesman, Vice News, CBC News, and the Globe and Mail, was permanently suspended from Twitter last week after the social network implemented a ban on misgendering transgender people.
The posts which reportedly led to Murphys ban were, Women arent men, and How are transwomen not men? What is the difference between a man and a transwoman?
After Twitter made her delete the posts, Murphy made another post declaring, This is f***ing bullshit, @twitter. Im not allowed to say that men arent women or ask questions about the notion of transgenderism at all anymore? That a multi-billion dollar company is censoring basic facts and silencing people who ask questions about this dogma is insane.
Murphy was then permanently suspended.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
XY? Man
XX? Woman
Except for the rare hermaphroditism ( yeah this may mean snails not mammals and there are other better terms) this is pretty much locked in stone.
“afraid of the truth”
More like, intolerant of disobedience. Murphy might share 99.9% of their leftist dogmas, but she also fancies herself an independent thinker. She must learn to be told what to think, or she must be silenced.
Meghan, Meghan,Meghan. Arent the Emperors new clothes stupendous ? Be sure to loudly proclaim how lovely they are or else !
Too bad Chuck Barris isn’t still around - looks like it’s time for a new version of “The Dating Game”: the contestant asks questions of three “bachelors”, and then has to figure out which one of them is really a guy.
The interesting thing about this headline, and the slant in general, is making news of the fact that Twitter banned a “feminist” for saying this.
It should not matter WHO speaks the truth, or what their other beliefs may or may not be.
Why is is particularly bad that this person was banned? Because she’s a feminist? What if she was a Republican? What if she was a Nazi?
If she was banned for saying “water is wet, fire burns, A=A, 2+2=4, OR men are not women”, it’s still a big problem, feminist or not.
Only approved Twitter words and Twitter ideas will be permitted !!
This has nothing to do with anyone's feelings.
This is the 2+2 = 4 dialog right out of 1984.
"Look at my hand, Winston. Right now, you see indeed four fingers held up to you. But as you can see (O'Brien uncovers his thumb, showing all five fingers), I have in fact five fingers. That is the essence of the Party, Winston: you think you know the truth by seeing things with your senses, but as you can see, your senses can disappoint you. The Party knows everything, is everything: the Party knows that there are five fingers here, even if you only see four of them. The Party knows the truth that you cannot see from the place you are standing at, because you are weak alone. The Party is strong and omniscient, and therefore if the Party says that two and two equals three, or five, it will always be right: you, by yourself, cannot know the truth".
The democrat party has changed just a tiny bit over time.
Kennedy put a man on the moon.
hussein put a man in the girls bathroom.
I suppose youre right but on the other hand, this is a Man Bites Dog story.
Excellent, excellent post! Congratulations.
Sad how many people here use "fascist" as an adjective meaning "bad".
I was suspended once, for 1 day. That was long ago, never figured why.
Have been a heavy user for the past 9 years.
I’m not PC. And I’m not a Leftie. I do have a few Leftie friends. They tolerate me. smile.
Well that is an issue. So far, I’ve not been plagued by it.
Fascism, at its heart, is about suborning the individual and his/her needs, wants, and desires to the state. It is the antithesis of the inherent individual liberty that our Declaration of Independence and Constitution enumerate and protect. It is as horrific as Communism, its collectivist doppelganger, and is the definition of "bad."
One day someone is going to go postal on them, and they’ll have deserved it.
The original form of Fascism was a “merger of state and corporate power”. The relationship between the Left and Big Tech meets this definition to a “T”.
What goes around comes around.
Now all libs are in a tizzy because one of THEM is suspended.
LOL, I was certain that when she said men weren’t women, she meant it in the most derogatory comparative sense! Upon reading the article, it is oddly clear that she was making the very conservative (nowadays) point that a “transwoman” is still a man, etc.
It is astonishing to me we are even having this twisted, stupid discussion disputing that a man who cuts off his twig and stones and takes hormones to grow breasts is a woman, but...here we are.
Good post.
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