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Kevin de Lacy's avatar

Excellently put!! Peter Ellis' case was a frightening example of the injustice of misguided emotion - let us hope that that example is never forgotten in our country! (Though I suspect that, in many cases, it already has been!)

Thanks for your article - it has made me examine some of my own prejudices - and here I was, thinking I didn't have any!

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Eric Darwin's avatar

I'm so old, I remember when Minority advocates used to want to be treated like other people, with the same rights and privilages. Now many/some want to change the world to suit themselves, starting with redefining vocabulary, and the flouting of norms.

I think a lot of the hate/pushback is just regular folks annoyed at being lectured at, condescended to, and bullied by "gotcha" language designed to silence. Virtue signaling on steroids. I recall decades of acceptance for drag acts on mainstream tv and theatre, and at clubs, and occasionally not, but now it seems they are compulsory displays of correctthink at schools, libraries, etc. and not attending is construed as a statement of hate.

We celebrate diversity until noticing that the votes against gay marriage or unlimited abortion come from immigrant neighbourhoods or religious groups that aren't the usual ones that it is acceptable to mock. (cf priests).

I eagerly await gender equality at teacher's colleges. Affirmative action, anyone?

i do think back a few months to a previous post by BOP about a so-called TERF being silenced in NZ ...

and i notice the rise of GLB associations that exclude T as being a war on gay people. Trans away the gay, I think the saying goes. All interesting conversations that should be heard and heeded or dismissed as the listener wishes. But not silenced either physically or by hate speech.

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