Dublin Pride ends media partnership with RTE over Liveline's Gender Identity discussion

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He’s as much of a woman as Dame Edna Everage is.

Could argue the same about comparisons of today's Israeli settlements to German lebansraum. While I absolutely agree that accusing every authoritarian movement of being Nazi-reminiscent is overdone, tired and in this case inaccurate (those flags are hanging *above* the street like bunting, people - it's not as if they're being held on sigils by a mob), the suggestion that a group which faced historical oppression cannot be guilty of the same oppression today is dangerously censorious in and of itself. In fact, it's not uncommon both on the interpersonal level and the demographic or societal level for the abused to subsequently and tragically replicate their abusers' behaviour when dealing with others.

Agree that the comparison is hyperbolic and inaccurate, just disagreeing specifically with the idea that a group which was historically a victim of X cannot be accused n the present day of X. That rather dangerously gives said group a get out of jail free card, which again if you look to the Israel example is used routinely and has caused absolute havoc in various political movements in recent years.

I remember years ago a music journalist called the display of thousands of Welsh flags at a Stereophonics concert 'fascistic'.

I felt the same way about large Ukrainian blue and yellow flags draped everywhere in Dublin city. Neutrality was wiped out without an argument by sheer symbolism. (I'm not a 'Putinbot' before anyone says)

Bombarding people and overwhelming their senses with omnipresent flag displays is a tactic obviously borrowed from totalitarian regimes and is nakedly propagandistic.

Not that that means, or that I think it means, that anyone who does that is then going borrow other or all tactics and features of 20th century regimes. Or that we're all cowering in fear. We're not. But it's not great all the same.

No - Extending it to say women and pregnant people. Some women claim they are being erased - this addresses their concerns.

There's no such thing as pregnant people, only the female of the species can carry a child and they are called Women. If someone gets offended by that, I would have much more concern for the environment that child will be growing up in - it takes a certain level of emotional intelligence and maturity to parent, and someone who's more self concerned with their "terminology" is nowhere near that bar

Attempts to make fun of my post but ends up making no sense at all? You do know what (sic) means also and that it's not a brush off for things you don't understand? 🤔 Try again