Class warfare,  Gender critical,  Hen fight

Purification rituals

18 August 2024

In the wake of the terrible riots at Southport and elsewhere, there has been a great revulsion towards Far Right white extremists and their gender critical handmaidens by the Right Thinking people of the land. That’s right, the Great White Racist Uprisings coincided with the Iman Khelif controversy and confirmed many Decent people’s suspicions that Terfs were not only transphobic bigots but also irredeemably racist and islamophobic.  There were apparent sightings of some known GC faces at Tommy Robinson rallies and some remarks about muslim grooming gangs by certain problematic characters like Posey Parker, always too big for her boots and jumpsuits. I don’t have the details of all the wrong thought and wrong actions because it is too bloody tedious to chase down these accusations though I havent heard of a single GC woman who did anything illegal like lob a brick at a police officer or try to burn down a mosque. But it is very bad form to remind anyone of the muslim grooming gangs  of course.

However, the association between gender critical views and “far right, anti-Muslim, populist, racist views was  well and truly in the public domain” (er X) and could not be ignored any longer. Something had to be done.  Proper leftwing gender critical feminists had to put clear blue water between their views and those of Yaxley-Lennon and his growing legions of supporters who identify as gender critical.

An anti-Far Right account on X was established and as well a proper letter denouncing racist and islamophobic gender critical women. There were worthy signatories such as : Julie Bindel, Rosie Duffield, Jo Phoenix, Karen Ingala Smith, Sian Sullivan, Lucy Masoud, Rachel Rooney, Bev Jackson, Beatrix Campbell, Pragna Patel etc

 

This is the letter in full:

Since the horrific murders in Southport on 29 July, the UK has seen an alarming outbreak of far-right violence, with organised gangs targeting mosques and setting fire to asylum hostels. It is clear this violence has been whipped up on social media, both by ordinary sympathisers and by a number of powerful players with their own political agendas. It is a populist caricature to claim this violence represents the authentic voice of the working classes and that anyone who criticises the violence is a member of the middle-class elite. Many working-class people have come together to oppose the presence of far-right men attacking their communities and to clean up the subsequent damage. It is insulting to the most economically disadvantaged people in our country to equate them with the perpetrators of this violence.

We, the undersigned, are deeply disturbed that populist messages particularly targeting Muslims have gained traction among significant numbers of social media accounts associated with the gender critical movement, and that one major account in particular has actively fanned the flames of racist violence with increasingly inflammatory video messages.

As members of a broad-based movement that has coalesced over the past few years around concerns about the destructive impact of gender identity theory, we recognise that we come from a variety of backgrounds and have differing views on other political questions. We welcome this diversity of thought. Certain views, however, cross a clear line, and we are not prepared to work or share a banner with supporters of the far right. By that, we do not mean ‘anyone who criticises the left’ or conservatives in general. We mean anyone who justifies or incites the violent scapegoating of immigrants and minoritised communities, including the violent and criminal anti-Muslim leader who calls himself Tommy Robinson and those who support or defend him.

We also mean those who have jumped on the previous misuse of the ‘far-right’ label by over-zealous sections of the liberal left to now question, minimise or even deny altogether the existence of the far right and the grave and very real threat it poses to the safety and well-being of communities across the UK.

We understand that the failure of the political parties of the centre and left to defend women’s rights and oppose the unnecessary medicalisation of gender-confused young people has allowed this issue to become the preserve of the right. Many have long argued that this abnegation of duty has been short-sighted and dangerous, because it presented the populist right with an open goal they have fully exploited. However, we do not for a moment believe that Robinson and his followers are genuine supporters of women’s rights or concerned for the welfare of children who would otherwise turn out to be lesbian or gay. Even if they were, their scapegoating of other vulnerable communities is completely politically unacceptable and being seen to support or defend it is strategically extremely ill-advised.

Many of us did not anticipate that this would ever need saying, or that the gender critical movement would ever face a serious incursion from the far right. But the world changes rapidly and this is the position we are now in. We are not prepared to accept the hard work done by so many being co-opted and endangered by people inciting and defending race riots. Not only will it make it much harder for us to get the hearing we desperately need from the new government, but we are ethically compelled to have no truck with any form of racism.

 

Some of these signatories, like Lucy Masoud, will never be scolded for hating the right groups of people :

 

 

There were many threads on Mumsnet’s Feminism forum, forensic examinations of who hasn’t signed the letter or expressed outrage that so many poundshop Le Pens dare to inhabit the same cause as the Decent people.

There is also defiance. Many women who have had the temerity to express concern about gender activism’s over reach have been called nazis for far too long to give a damn any more.

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