Posted on 05/30/2023 1:21:10 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Their faces were twisted with hatred as they jabbed their fingers at me. They waved placards denouncing me as a hate-speaker, a bigot, someone unfit for public life.
This was Oxford University in 2018, where I had been invited to give an after-dinner speech at Queen’s College.
When I arrived, however, I was greeted not by the reasoning intellects you would expect to find at one of the world’s great universities, but by a mob of blue-haired, red-faced woke censors.
They were assembled outside the building where I was due to give my speech, hurling all manner of abuse. I tried to talk to them but they backed off, as if I were a leper.
To them, I was a leper — a political leper. Someone who had committed the cardinal sin of dissenting from their politically correct ideology.
Needless to say, the experience made me deeply pessimistic about our educational institutions.
Free speech looked to be on the run.
This evening at the Oxford Union debating society a similar scene will play out — but on a grander scale. The visit of the feminist academic Kathleen Stock to give a speech is expected to be met by up to a thousand LGBTQ protesters and their supporters.
The 51-year-old Stock has committed the great thought-crime of our times. Like J.K. Rowling, she does not believe it is possible to change sex. She does not believe ‘trans women are real women’. For holding these views, Stock has already paid with her job — she felt forced by student protests into quitting as a professor at Sussex Univesity in 2021.
And over the past weeks she has faced concerted efforts to stop her from speaking at the Oxford Union...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Wow conservatives are Counter-Culture now.
Leftism/wokeism/communism are the religions of hate.
We always were.
Not in the 1960/70s.
I miss the days when a “trans” was shifting mechanism in a car or a bad kind of fat.
Women’s Rights have been flushed down the crapper by the insane democRATS. Any real woman athlete is now looked upon as a second class person. Any male that puts on a dress (has no surgery whatsoever) can now compete in women’s sports. Incredible young high school athletes who have sacrificed and trained for years are swept aside in the name of the trans wackos. College scholarships that the real young women would have earned, and product endorsements later, are gone.
I hope and pray that some of them are able to use Civil Court system for real reparations from the damages.
The great thing about the trans stuff is that feminists, who invented identity politics, take the brunt of it. It tickles me to no end to see them knocked off their perch at the top of the victim totem pole. If they would just leave the kids alone, I would have little argument with the trannies.
I am sorry, but who is fighting for our culture here and who are the counter-culturalists?
Does no one ever edit anything any more?
Great minds.... Does words mean nothing any more? Is absolutely everything Orwellian propoganda?
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