Your rage is completely justified. It’s one thing to shout “uncle!” when a mob is beating you to death in the name of “re-educating you to be more loving, tolerant, and inclusive.” It’s quite another to shout “cancelled!” and point toward those “witches” your attackers insisted you end all association with.
The citizens who paid the venue for a place to hold a panel discussion about medical ethics and safeguarding the vulnerable are held up to the public as worthy of censure, cancelled due to a conflict of values like inclusivity blah blah. Well, those were the terms of ransom from the terrorists, I suppose. A public prostration to the almighty rainbow.
The venue sounds utterly naive about the wrath that would come at them if they disclosed their involvement well in advance… fuck around and find out. But if you “find out,” then trumpet to the public about the outrageous, unwarranted abuse you received from activists. Make a case for free speech. Instead, it’s the worst of both worlds. The venue initially goes public with their supportive role, then goes public with their simpering appeasement of the criminals who vandalized their property and threatened their staff.
And once again, women, kids, vulnerable adults, and families are the ones who have been disenfranchised.
We can’t give up or back down. It’s one hell of a moment in human history. We all must find a way to interrupt this onslaught of destructive ideological capture and insistence on conformity of thought.
Yeah, the fear and worry about their safety and business I get (but also, call the cops...and also, we warned them repeatedly...), but to then turn around and claim ignorance, to lie about what they told us, about their values, about the real reason they cancelled the event, to claim we threatened legal action, which we did not (though I would like to, now), and "vandalize" our poster by drawing a red "X" over our faces (!??!) is just pathetic and gross. I will never give up or back down. We are doing everything in our power to find another venue, as we always are forced to do...
Your rage is completely justified. It’s one thing to shout “uncle!” when a mob is beating you to death in the name of “re-educating you to be more loving, tolerant, and inclusive.” It’s quite another to shout “cancelled!” and point toward those “witches” your attackers insisted you end all association with.
The citizens who paid the venue for a place to hold a panel discussion about medical ethics and safeguarding the vulnerable are held up to the public as worthy of censure, cancelled due to a conflict of values like inclusivity blah blah. Well, those were the terms of ransom from the terrorists, I suppose. A public prostration to the almighty rainbow.
The venue sounds utterly naive about the wrath that would come at them if they disclosed their involvement well in advance… fuck around and find out. But if you “find out,” then trumpet to the public about the outrageous, unwarranted abuse you received from activists. Make a case for free speech. Instead, it’s the worst of both worlds. The venue initially goes public with their supportive role, then goes public with their simpering appeasement of the criminals who vandalized their property and threatened their staff.
And once again, women, kids, vulnerable adults, and families are the ones who have been disenfranchised.
We can’t give up or back down. It’s one hell of a moment in human history. We all must find a way to interrupt this onslaught of destructive ideological capture and insistence on conformity of thought.
Yeah, the fear and worry about their safety and business I get (but also, call the cops...and also, we warned them repeatedly...), but to then turn around and claim ignorance, to lie about what they told us, about their values, about the real reason they cancelled the event, to claim we threatened legal action, which we did not (though I would like to, now), and "vandalize" our poster by drawing a red "X" over our faces (!??!) is just pathetic and gross. I will never give up or back down. We are doing everything in our power to find another venue, as we always are forced to do...
It all speaks to the power of the trans movement, and the banks and corporations that are funding them.