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UK Cops Have Decided Impolite Online Speech Is Worth A Visit From An Officer
In this case, it was Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan being visited by the Norwich Police Department on a Sunday morning. He was apparently reported by outspoken trans rights activist Adrian Harrop. Linehan had posted tweets criticizing Harrop's televised debate with a woman who had paid for a billboard depicting the dictionary's definition of the word "woman," which bothered Harrop so much he complained and got that taken down as well.
Harrop was the reason Linehan was talking to police officers about tweets that didn't even violate the Twitter Rules. He had merely suggested Harrop's steamrolling of the billboard buyer during a televised debate might have been "male privilege." Another tweet alleged Harrop had threatened women and doxxed them for not being friendly enough to his cause. This is the tweet Harrop admits bothered him so much he needed to call the police. This is the disturbing, but ultimately useless, outcome of Harrop's decision.
[...] You can't recognize free speech while still insisting everyone has to be nice to everyone else while online. You can hope that's what will happen, but you can't demand this of the general population. Unless you're in the UK, in which case you can, because you don't really recognize free speech and should probably remove that phrase from the government's collective vocabulary.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by kurenai.tsubasa on Saturday December 29 2018, @12:10AM
Yeah, and they need to knock that shit off. If a person wants to identify as a woman without correcting their mutant clitoris, then they must accept the limitations that come with a mutant clitoris.
We must delineate the no-op position here of identifying as a woman who happens to have a male reproductive system from the pre-op position of being hampered by an inability to access necessary health services including genital surgery. In the case of the pre-op trans lesbian, I guess life's just not fair. They should consider abandoning the two major capitalist parties and studying the Russian Revolution, because waiting for the capitalist system to give them a way to get surgery is going to be a very long wait.
If trans folks disregard a potential partner's genital preference, then they have become a TERF stereotype. If they persist, then they are engaging in sexual harassment and/or rape.
In general, all this angst about gender and race issues is the bourgeois class telling you that you can't find a steady job because you're a woman and don't have male privilege. Then they tell me that I'm struggling because I'm trans and don't have cis privilege. Then they tell white guys that they're not rich because the Mexicans and Muslims are terkin their jerbs. And then, and then, and then, and then.
For every demographic we can imagine, the bourgeois running the show can tell that demographic which other demographic to blame. And then we're all at each other's throats. The working class has been divided, and the spectre of some kind of Transitional Program (heh) has been defused.
We're all being equally fucked by the elites.
And my personal opinion is that those trans lesbians trying to stick their dicks in you are either a.) fundamentally misguided or b.) CIA agents who got tired of posing as little girls on IRC. Well, maybe not CIA. Probably TERF groups that would love to make you think that a trans woman wants to rape you (classical trolls). Or (especially if meatspace) they've been fundamentally misguided by CIA assets and other useful idiots in high places in academia spouting postmodern bullshit.
Everybody needs to understand the implications of COINTELPRO [wikipedia.org]. The Security and the Fourth International [wsws.org] investigation is also a fascinating read.