Kemi Badenoch, tired of mining the votes of spitefully cruel transphobes and racists, now turns to the misogyny vote. Wonder how the British transphobic movement will square this with their claims that she's the only one "standing up for women".
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That reads like someone trying to set the stage for saving her reputation after she's lost. But you'd only do that if you were pretty certain you weren't going to make the final two, surely?
What the Labour Party should learn from this, as the SNP should have done as well, is there is simply no way to bend over backwards far enough for the anti-trans rebels. They will always, always, stick the knife in in the end regardless. There is no sufficient pleasing them.
How different the headlines would be if an Arabic nation had killed a thousand Israelis in bomb attacks including the leader of one of their extremist pro-settler political parties...
Exactly the big fish syndrome. He likes to throw his weight around with people who won't stand up to him, he's just a bully
This is a major turning point for GPEW and I hope it's a sign that they have finally, finally, managed to move beyond the era where they felt unable to confront transphobia or deal with the bad faith, cruel, and coordinated hatred of its adherents. Here's hoping.
One out, one in. Years ago I along with many other LGBT+ members of the English and Welsh Greens had our complaints against his aggressive and vile transphobia thrown out, and we were instead sanctioned for publicly challenging him. I quit, and said I'd only come back when he was kicked out.
Will Ferrell has an enormous audience of straight dudes who need to hear this. Nothing but facts here about anti-trans bigotry:
