Say what you want to say

[Edmund Burke]

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. Or as she keeps saying:

This looks like a good place to park this pic



And this video

And this

This being a free speech zone & all, let's hear a bit more from trans rights activists:

[Judith Sargent Murray]

Not so Keen on free speech – Helen Joyce
In a sane world, what these women say wouldn’t attract criticism; indeed, it wouldn’t even need to be said. But often they are drowned out by transactivists shrieking threats and slogans of the sort Robert Jay Lifton, in his 1961 book Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism, called thought-terminating clichés: “brief, highly reductive, definitive-sounding phrases [that] become the start and finish of any ideological analysis”.

. . .

Six weeks since Kellie-Jay Keen: reflections from Mana Wāhine Kōrero
Thousands of volunteer hours, donations, time, and effort was all undone in thirty minutes of frenzied, unadulterated hatred of women

[George Orwell]

I went looking for something to fill this post with, in addition a quote by myself,

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

and came up with:

Oh dear

It would be the easiest thing in the world to have my own little cancel culture club, but I've decided to let Morton's embedded video stay, as long as they/them are also on the bill: