On the tenth anniversary of the tweets illustrated here, it is encouraging that many people now seem to be losing their patience with this kind of pseudo-profundity.
Following my post on the writer Barry Purcell remaining in denial about the harms caused by the ideology he promotes, he has insisted that those who disagree must “do the research”. So here it is.
Following publication of my post on The Denial Of Antisemitism, Barry Purcell has returned to his position on anti-Zionist views as compared to antisemitic views, in order to offer some additional commentary.
Dr Kathleen Stock has explained that the most inane ideas promoted by transgender activists, can usually be explained by the fact that many of them are “just quite thick”.
This article is reproduced from one originally published at Gript. In trying to explain the failures of their predictions, the most vocal climate change alarmists often sound exactly like climate change deniers.
Transgender activists often insist their motivation is to demonstrate the most kindness possible to the most vulnerable people, while their position in fact causes significant harm to trans-identified people and others.
One of the well-known aspects of many cults, is an insistence on an ideological purity that excludes evidence contrary to their beliefs. This can lead to a kind of conformity that is enforced by wilful blindness to reality. The tweet below struck me as one example of this. The Irish writer Barry Purcell portrays the…