{"id":846,"date":"2024-04-03T05:27:36","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T05:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/04\/03\/the-insanity-of-the-left\/"},"modified":"2024-04-03T05:27:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T05:27:36","slug":"the-insanity-of-the-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/04\/03\/the-insanity-of-the-left\/","title":{"rendered":"The Insanity of the Left"},"content":{"rendered":"

A vote for Democrats is a vote for such leftist\/'woke' insanity as this<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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JK Rowling has thrown down the gauntlet to the Scottish police. On 1 April, the day the new Hate Crime Act came into force in Scotland, Rowling, who lives in Edinburgh, dared officers to arrest her<\/a>. She posted a thread on X \/ Twitter in which she \u2018misgendered\u2019 various men who have pretended to be women, from a rapist<\/a> who tried to be housed in a women\u2019s prison to a balding footballer<\/a> who cheated his way into a women\u2019s team. \u2018If what I\u2019ve written here qualifies as an offence under the terms of the new act\u2019, she wrote, \u2018I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

There could hardly be a greater demonstration of the authoritarianism and absurdity of the SNP\u2019s hate-speech law<\/a> than the fact it could well lead to the arrest of the author of Harry Potter. The new law has the potential to turn this mild-mannered, left-liberal children\u2019s author into a criminal hate-speaker. Not because she is a racist or a homophobe or a transphobe. But because, as a feminist, she believes in the material reality of biological sex. Because she believes that men cannot become women. Because she believes women\u2019s sex-based rights must be protected. Because she believes in scientific truth.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Dissent is not hate. If I dissent from your VIEWS, it does not follow that I hate YOU. Even a 'liberal' should be able to make that distinction.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A vote for Democrats is a vote for such leftist\/'woke' insanity as this: JK Rowling has thrown down the gauntlet to the Scottish police. On 1 April, the day the new Hate Crime Act came into force in Scotland, Rowling, who lives in Edinburgh, dared officers to arrest her. She posted a thread on X \/ … Continue reading “The Insanity of the Left”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[231,163,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-speech","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-wokery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}