Is It"Far Right" To Ask Questions, Or Be Able To Spot Gaslighting, Coercion Tactics & Playbook Propaganda Campaigns?
Invoking tribal allegiances. "with us or against us" thinking and fearful "good person" self-identity as a tool to shut down ANY discussion is a lazy, but effective, tactic of propagandists
As a number of us have noted, the hottest current smear tactic to dehumanise ANY woman who speaks about their own legal rights (presumably in order to make it easier to “righteously” abuse and threaten them and remove their human rights) or even to question any aspect at all of gender identitarians’ Scientology-like belief framework is just to call us all “FAR RIGHT”.
It’s SO easy to ramp up the tactics to make sure nobody who considers themselves “liberal” will listen to us, isn’t it? And many people desperate not to be seen as “the baddies” or face social opprobrium right now will of course have a knee jerk reaction, succumb to their fear and believe whatever you tell them. Job done.
Witness this recent entry from proudly masked pseudo-socialist Tarquins calling themselves “anti fascists” and by implication, all the women they were rallying against and call “transphobes”, “Nazis”
Now, Tarquin. Is this woman, Natalie, who was speaking at said demo “far right,” really? Honestly? And what do you think should be done to her, in your view, for giving her own opinion on her own life and dignity in the care she’s given?
Then there was a lovely zealot person called Clare Hymer from Novara Media, quite deliberately equating ANY woman at all who disagrees with her at all or questions the necessity and “inclusive” value of Drag Queen Story Hour with the Far Right. Because nobody who isn’t far right would EVER question the inclusivity & diversity value of little girls being presented with grotesque and often sexualised caricatures of adult women by male adult nightclub performers called completely non-sexual things like Flow Job, would they?
Or how about this from Time Magazine, who decided to categorise anyone at all who questions or objects in any way to Hershey’s putting a man in their International Women’s Day ad as “conservative social media commentators”
And don’t forget people like this unhinged, frankly dangerous little man, a Professor, believe or not, viciously smearing JK Rowling as pretty much Goebbels. Because this is totally rational behaviour on his part, and he doesn’t sound like a demented woman-hating cultist demonising and inciting hatred and violence towards a woman who speaks about womens’ rights at all, nope. And Vox have a lot to answer for as they’re helping propagate the misinformation.
So Who ARE Being Smeared As “Far Right”?
The “Far Right” smear, as I mentioned in my previous post, is directed at ANYONE at all, but mostly women, who oppose The One “True” Ideology (TM) despite its many flaws and inconsistencies, despite its inherent misogyny and homophobia, especially lesbophobia, despite its illiberalism and elitism, and despite the the verifiable fact that the many people opposing this bullshit include:
Women who marched against ACTUAL fascists like Combat 18 and the BNP back in the 90s.
Funny how those claiming they ARE now the fascists weren’t even born yet and haven’t the faintest clue about UK social history, isn’t it? Lazy and ignorant.
Plus as I pointed out in my previous post, long time left wing Green activists & Labour, Lib Dem & SNP supporters, voters, and funders, materialist socialists the Morning Star & Communist Party of Great Britain etc. People who are demonstrably neither “Nazis. People whose entire voting history has always been for left-of centre parties: in the UK, Labour voters, Lib Dem voters, Green and SNP voters. Lesbians and gay men, activists who were founders of the Gay Liberation Front in the UK in the 70s, gay founders of the first Pride marches in the US and who were present at the first Stonewall riots, original founders, long-time employees and former campaigners and active champions for UK Stonewall, gay journalists & campaigners. 2nd wave women’s liberationists, people like ex Greenham Common activists, builders of women’s rape crisis centres and rape shelters and creators of helplines in the 70s and 80s, Generation Xers, former punks, New Romantics, goths… A wide range of people across society including members of the public in a full range of jobs and backgrounds, including academics & thinkers. People of ALL academic backgrounds, those with and without university education, including a very large number of people who have degrees (often several) and who have indeed been to university despite the claims that only “uneducated” people could possible oppose or question this. Many staunch Remainers, pro-Vaxxers, pro-choice, vocal anti-Trumpists. 2nd wave feminists, radical feminists (the RF in “terf”) and women’s liberationists who explicitly decried pink ‘n blue sex stereotypes and systemically eschewed “traditional” gender roles and rules about appearance as tools of the patriarchy. Let’s remind ourselves of where the crossovers are, shall we? Given genderists actually have WAY more in common in terms of backwards sexist ideas about “gender” with conservative or “traditional” Christians than we do.
OK, So What ARE These “Far Right” Views, Then?
These are the actual viewpoints being espoused by these women who are being labelled as “Far Right.”
Being of the apparently heinous view that sex is real and politically salient as all the facts and history will tell us, gender is unreal, socially constructed and is simply regressively conservative stereotype boxes about “femininity” and “masculinity” and that “woman” is the material reality of having been born (no, not “assigned”) biologically female instead of a sexist “pink” personality type based on 1950s stereotypes. No, we don’t have “pink” ladybrains. Oh, and you’re every bit as much a woman if you’re female and you don’t fit “pink” stereotypes as someone who does. That, after all, was one of the key tenets of feminism. It’s not about being “feminine”.
The knowledge of gaslighting tactics and controlling/coercive behaviours and ability to spot them at 50 paces
Questioning the rise in medical transitioning of young people, and children being told they must be “born in the wrong body” if they don’t play with the “correct” toys or like or do the “correct” things and other conservatively sexist nonsense. And no if it WAS simply a “moral panic whipped up by the far right” as claimed, why is this “wrong toys/clothes/likes/dislikes so I knew I was the opposite sex” rubbish cited publicly BY pretty much every transitioner in transitioning stories we see being feted in the media? It’s not us saying it or making this up: it’s genderists and transitioners themselves.
Questioning an ideological framework which relies on regressive sex stereotypes to, er, “defeat” sex stereotypes, supposedly, and send kids down irreversible medical pathway if they don’t fit designated pink and blue boxes.
Questioning in particular the sudden massive rise in girls who don’t fit sex stereotypes believing they can’t “really” be girls and must therefore be boys & be put on hormones & sent for double mastectomies. The investigations by paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass as per the Interim Cass Review confirmed what we already knew regarding the significant change in cohort they were treating at GIDS
Not to mention questioning why no major alarm bells were ringing given that, as Cass points out, a disproportionate percentage of whom were also a) autistic b) looked-after children and c) same-sex attracted. And questioning this is “far right” apparently. You know, from questioners like Corbyn supporter Dr David Bell and GIDS Child Safeguarding Lead Sonia Appleby who was awarded £20k in employment tribunal due to her employers preventing her doing her job. “Far right fascists?” Are you sure?
All those “Nazi” whistleblowing clinicians too, obviously. Marcus and Sue Evans? Kirsty Entwhistle? Matt Bristow, who, along with other gay clinicians became deeply concerned about the homophobia they were witnessing? But yeah, sure, the only reason so many of them questioned what was going on in their own workplace were their own “far right” tendencies and a “moral panic” whipped up the Daily Mail—YEARS BEFORE the DM even started reporting on it because certain “left wing” outlets specifically decided not to and it was best to avoid telling their readers the truth.
Questioning the ethics and underlying homophobia of an ideology which seeks to send children down medical pathways for being “gender nonconforming” when the evidence shows the majority of these young people will turn out to be gay or lesbian AND the majority (80% ish) will desist if not pushed down the medical pathway. Let’s not forget the homophobia of ex Mermaid's CEO Susie Green’s husband who could not copy with his little boy playing with Barbies. So let’s chop his cock off and make him a “girl” then! Phew! Crisis averted! Or what about little Kai Shappley’s mother, who tried to “beat the gay” out of her child? Just trans him (the way they do in Iran if a gay person wants to avoid being executed); that way it makes it all nicely heteronormative, doesn’t it?
Questioning the imposition of mixed sex spaces and the removal of all single sex ones without consent or ANY discussion with those most impacted by their removal . And no, the fact that some more subservient women are at pains to tell us all that “they’re fine with it and nice girls, not like those evil bigot terfs over there” does not make it democratic. Is wanting to be consulted about the removal of our own rights and facilities any more"far right"than questioning decisions to remove basic rights or services from other demographic groups in society without consultation ? Why is this “different?” I don’t think it is. It’s not “far right” to say so.
Understanding and talking about the on-the-ground history and impacts of women's rights activism and legislation instead of spouting reality-defying postmodernist and imported US woo about your flawed concept of ‘intersex’ and 'colonialism and patting yourself on the back for being “intellectually superior” while reality continues beneath you, not changing, while you castigate, sneer at and bully anyone who thinks reality is important or that evidence against your theories is pretty overwhelming. It’s definitely super intelligent to have theories which don’t stack up against the facts, isn’t it? And definitely “far right” to question your academic brilliance or to expect your ideas to be put under scrutiny without you having a tantrum and having to stalk, hound anyone who questions you out of their job and threaten them with violence.
Questioning why we are suddenly being told to believe something that goes COMPLETELY against all our knowledge, in many cases long held left wing political beliefs, against observable reality, the evidence, the documented history, and in many cases our lifelong beliefs and facts about women's rights and feminism , and that the timing of that demand coincides EXACTLY (2015) with a US lobby-funded ideological push via successful former gay rights lobby groups like Stonewall in the UK to legally recognise any men who wish to be as women, no questions allowed. And no, Oceania hasn’t always been at war with Eastasia. We know and remember because we were there living the history you’re trying to rewrite. Not buying it.
Questioning the often public demonisation and defamation of women with long histories of progressive activism and who we KNOW do NOT have the beliefs they're being accused of having, and questioning why they’re being lied about, demonised often all over the world and roundly abused, threatened with violence and sexual assault, and made an example of in an attempt to shut them up and any woman watching who might be thinking of supporting them. And questioning if doing so is actually “the new frontier of human rights activism” in any way. And asking what is “progressive” exactly about failing to support them or actively joining in the misogynistic abuse, lies and demonisation?
Questioning if demanding that people submit to all and any of your demands and move aside to prioritise you while you appropriate their lived experience is a “human right”. Questioning if demanding, with punishment for non-compliance, that everyone perceives you in exactly way you perceive yourself and never question or criticise you, and have their human rights removed if they do is a “human right” in any way. Or that enforcement of your One True Faith on everyone in society isn’t tantamount to dangerous religious fundamentalism and hugely authoritarian and contrary to the fundamental human right of freedom of belief of everyone in the country.
Questioning ANY group in society being made a “sacred caste” which cannot be questioned and is exempt from basic child safeguarding rules, especially when that group has been shown to include just as many predatory sex offenders as any other non-sacred group in society.
Questioning how and why so many government and powerful media organisations and the rest of the establishment appears to have been captured and are now trying to enforce the non-factual ideology on the entire population like a national religion despite the mountain of evidence against it. And helping to enforce the policy that nobody is allowed to question or discuss it in any way. Especially not those its enforcement impacts the most: women & girls.
Questioning how and why equality laws appear to have been changed on the ground “under the radar” “ahead of the law” and without proper public or democratic discussion or the usual parliamentary scrutiny, and the hatred being whipped up against any woman who questions or complains about this in any way.
None of this is “far right”. Nor is it “made up” or “unevidenced hysteria” either - there’s plenty of evidence from original sources for all of this. And NONE of it is a "minor" issue either. At all. Unless you’re someone who can’t “do” the big picture, think critically or follow things through? Or you’re someone who REALLY doesn’t want other people to have the chance to think critically about what they’re being told. Your way or the highway. Not controlling, totalitarian or in any way fascist at all.
“But We’re Allowed To Criticise Right Wing Beliefs”
Nobody said you weren’t. We’re talking about you FALSELY accusing people of believing things they clearly do not by simply labelling them “Right” or “Far Right” and whipping up hatred against them based on your lies about who they are and what they believe.
You’re not “criticising right wing beliefs” in any way. You haven’t the first clue what the people you are accusing of being “right wing” actually believe, and you clearly don’t care whether they are or not any case. That’s not the purpose of what you’re doing, after all.
The purpose is to shut those who disagree with you down. So LYING about any dissenter’s political affiliations and beliefs, mixing in some guilt by association, another classic propaganda trope, is a deliberate shut-down tactic, which you are using for control and to whip up hatred against the many women who largely do not in any way have the views you claim they do. It’s an authoritarian and abusive propagandist tactic. There is nothing righteous or inherently “left wing” or liberal about the actions of anybody who chooses to do this. Their motive is primarily to control the narrative and limit the spread of information. Which is something done by authoritarians everywhere and throughout history.
“You’re Just Being Held Accountable…”
And finally, I’m happy to be held to account for my factual, legal, socially conscious, fairness loving, materialist and ever-questioning views. I’m not happy to be threatened with violence, loss of income, attacks on my family and friends, or put in fear for expressing them. I’m not happy to have my beliefs lied about. And currently, due to the capture and sheer levels of enabling, weaponised tribalism and quasi religious zealotry, I simply don’t trust our Dear Authorities or even former allies in political parties to keep women like me safe or to uphold our basic human rights. It’s febrile, uncomfortable and dangerous out there.
And until there is accountability for those propagating the constant lies and defamations despite proof to the contrary, I’m not going to credit those who say things like “you’re just being held accountable and you’re a bigot” with any integrity or ethics whatsoever, thanks. They simply have none. They’re idiots.
I hope to God that there will one day be a reckoning for all the media organisations and influential/powerful individual enablers who have joined in lying about people and the abuse and hatred that they have gladly and wilfully contributed to. No, I wont accept the excuses anymore. They are unpleasant, easily led, tribal people who lack ethics, values or any moral compass. Certainly not people I look up or would allow to “educate” me, but narrow minded authoritarian fools who need to look in the mirror and educate themselves first. And if that’s “far right” of me, sue me. You’ll have a hard time convincing any judge.