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The shameful persecution of Posie Parker in New Zealand

• 25 March 2023, 1:29pm

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This is what it must have been like when women were marched to the stake. Yesterday in Auckland the British women’s rights campaigner Posie Parker found herself surrounded by a deranged, heaving mob. She had tomato soup and placards thrown in her face. She was doused with water. Huge men screamed insults and expletives in her face. The shoving of the crowd became so intense that Parker feared for her life. ‘I genuinely thought that if I fell to the floor I would never get up again’, she said. ‘My children would lose their mother and my husband would lose his wife.’

It was a truly chilling spectacle. The mobs’ faces were twisted into masks of feral hatred. They ranted in frenzy as the diminutive Parker, her bottle-blonde hair stained orange from the soup that had been dumped on her, desperately tried to make her way to the safety of a police car. It was a ritualistic shaming of a witch, a violent purging of a heretic.

Next time you’re reading a history book and find yourself wondering how Salem came to be consumed by such swirling hysteria, watch the clips of Posie’s persecution in New Zealand. This is how it happens. This is how the fear of witches can overrule reason and unleash the darkest, most punitive passions of the mob.

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And what is Parker’s crime? What did this witch do? She said, ‘A woman is an adult human female’. That’s it. Parker, whose real name is Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, is well known for her criticism of the ideology of transgenderism. She thinks a man never becomes a woman, no matter how many hormones he takes or surgeries he undergoes. She thinks if you were born male, you will die male, and in the time in between you have no right whatsoever to enter any women-only space.

This is heresy. Dissenting from the gospel of gender ideology is to the 21st century what dissenting from the actual gospels was to the 15th. And so Parker must be punished. It was a modern-day stoning, so mercifully they only threw soup and water and planks of cardboard at the blasphemer.

Parker organises public events called ‘Let Women Speak’. She has done it across the UK, in parts of the US, and for the past couple of weeks she’s been doing it in Australia and New Zealand.

It’s a genius initiative. She knows these gatherings of women who merely want to give voice to their profane belief that sex can never be changed will draw out crowds of intolerant trans activists and their allies. She knows the ‘Be Kind’ mob will do everything in its power to stop women from speaking. And she knows it will all brilliantly illustrate her core belief: that trans activism is misogyny in disguise, misogyny in drag, if you like, and that it has devoted itself to silencing women who believe in biology.

Australia and New Zealand played their parts brilliantly in Parker’s clever scheme. From Melbourne to Canberra, Hobart to Auckland, huge crowds of the right-on turned up to drown out the voices of the pesky women who dare to call men ‘men’. ‘Let women speak’, Parker says. ‘No’, says the mob. She incites them to confess their misogyny and intolerance in full public view. And they do.

Auckland was the worst. At Albert park in the centre of the city yesterday, the mob could not hide its vengeful loathing of the uppity women who disagree with its ideologies. Parker is a new kind of witch, one who willingly submits herself to a witch-trial, so that the rest of us might see just how dogmatic and unforgiving the new witch-hunters are. I am full of admiration for her. Her courage is shining a light on the visceral intolerance that advances under the banner of identity politics.

The events in Auckland should be a wake-up call for liberals everywhere. We glimpsed the iron fist of authoritarianism that lurks in the velvet glove of ‘Be Kind’. The misogynistic streak in trans extremism is undeniable now. Watch enraged men kicking down metal barriers so that they might get closer to the witch Posie and tell me this isn’t sexism masquerading as radicalism. Witness the crowing of men who are delighted that the mob made the ‘coward TERF’ run away and tell me this isn’t chauvinism on steroids. Behold the use of megaphones and expletive-laden chants and physical menace to silence a woman and tell me this isn’t a sexist, censorious crusade against women’s freedom of speech.

That mob in Auckland did not emerge out of thin air. No, it was a brutish manifestation of a regressive idea that has been taking hold for some years. Namely, that it should be forbidden to dissent from gender ideology. That it is bigotry to state biological facts. That it ought to be a punishable offence – whether that punishment is being No Platformed or sacked or having objects thrown in your face – to say men are men and women are women.

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To see where censorship ends up, just look at those grimacing agitators in Auckland, hatred spreading like a current through their number, as they fight with every fibre of their being to prevent the expression of a critical idea. Censorship begets bigotry. It begets violence itself. For the more we tell people that certain words will hurt them, the more we witlessly incite people to hurt those who dare to utter certain words.

That mob was drunk on sanctimony. This is what happens when we tell people their identity is the most important thing in the world and that anything that so much as grazes their self-esteem is an outrage that must be crushed. We nurture a generation of navel-gazing Torquemadas. Posie has exposed them, yet again, and for that she deserves our thanks. This time round, the witches might just win.

 

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British fishermen to net £100m more this year thanks to Brexit

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To be fair, this is understandable. These highly paid lawyers don't want to have to prosecute each other's eco-activist kids, do they? It would mess up plans for their ski holidays together.

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About 120 lawyers are set to sign a ‘Declaration of Conscience’ stating they will not prosecute groups like Extinction Rebellion https://telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/0...obox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1679617585-1…

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hElP oUr OwN fIrSt

 

No mention of the massive fishing boom here from the woke OBR.

 

Yaaahhhh Labour. Worse than the Tories

 

here you go

 

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So Hamza Yousuf becomes Scottish first minister. This means that a second generation British Pakistani will be negotiating with a second generation British Indian about partitioning Britain. That's ironic.

 

Bloody hell, these blokes, Khan in London, Cleverly (not by nature) as Foreign Secretary. Braverman, giving the lie to Buddhist tolerance on a daily basis. It’s like an insane woke casting director has got hold of British politics, you know, like the one who cast Midwich Cuckoos. It’s just not proportionate is it, to have all this diversity in these big jobs? It doesn’t reflect who is meant to have all the political power at all!

 

With the added irony of the negotiation taking place under the wizened auspices of a member of the Mountbatten family.

 

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police on the way to a tea break
or something even more important

 

Brilliant new plan to ‘deter’ migrants by housing them on a barge once they arrive. Coz they sick of boats innit?

Could herald the return of prison hulks, no longer seaworthy ships littering up harbours. Great big boat ready for use, the £3bn aircraft carrier which doesn’t work and is being repaired again. That has berths for 1600 military types, reckon you could squeeze at least 5 times as many convicts in there. And then sail it to Rwanda.








Yes I know it’s land locked, but when did geography stop a visionary like Suella?


Meanwhile financial regulators are looking at ways to make banks hold more cash. Stable door, bolted, horse, lock.

 

Can’t see a problem in it to be fair…..I mean there ain’t many hotels left around here so they’ve got to go somewhere.

 

Do you think it will work as a deterrent to people getting on small boats? That’s what it’s being sold as. I thought new ‘draconian’ laws, giving Macron loads of dosh and asking him nicely to help, and the threat of Rwanda were meant to be the radical solutions to this particular problem.

Interesting to see where they get the staff from for this giant barge.