Transphobia, Greer and the liberty to speak. in Voices Windward

Written as a reaction a friend sharing THIS ARTICLE

You are astute, intelligent human beings, can I ask is it your honest opinion that a person with a dodgy and dangerous idea should not be allowed to do a lecture on a different topic all together?

Argh look I’ll add a little note here that yes I am aware of the context of me as a seemingly CIS MALE posting anything that may be taken as “pro Greer”, the taste of manarchisms and male privilege ring clear, still, many of you have shared a political article and I’m assuming you are open to comment, feel free to delete,ignore,block if you feel the need, no animosity here.

This article reads in a curious manner, it seems to be a general attack on “the left” and very dismissive of the concept of “Free Speech”, which is unsurprising of Murdoch’s little punk rock beastie… That’s my initial response… I don’t feel the automatic RIGHT ON that I’m assuming many aware people may have as an instance reaction because it’s an attack article on someone who has attacked trans people. Maybe that makes me bad, maybe I’m a shit activist, but sometimes party lines need questioning.

Personally I think a better response than silencing people is to speak louder and clearer of a better world. It’s not to reductio ad hiterlum ( reducing everything to “What a nazi you are!”) every thought out of a misguided persons mouth but simply to present a society that functions. Counter lectures, Well voiced articles, the spreading of good will.

Silence your enemies and you make martyrs, you make people ask “what is it they know, that they don’t want me to know”, and in this case it’ll take people down a google that will see people reading away from Greer’s rather daft words to some truly horrible words from others, presented in a convincing manner, and to the unaware, to moderates who don’t really think about all this very often, these voices will be seditious poison slowly weakening our society.

You make it clandestine and it stays that. Debate dies a crib death.

Let Greer, Griffin, Icke who ever speak and then correct them.

Clearly this issue is much more closer to others and has a direct result on the lives of many, My opinion is less important.

Still, I feel it’s a dangerous ground to take absolutist stances, silence those who may talk against us and to expand Greer’s comments into hate speech being equated to that of Nationalists, there has been no call for hate or attacks, Greer has not organised any protests of bombings of gay bars in Camden, she’s not constantly pouring out hate and anger, she expressed an opinion, and an inaccurate one true enough, but not one that means she should be blamed for all of the sickening violence and hate that may fall on the trans community.

There are people out there pouring out rage and constantly undermining the Trans community like Jerry Leach or something… and the lash back was somewhat excessive… it detracts from the fight and struggle against other names less known who constantly spread hate and anger at the Trans community.

Mind you, I think Greer has been rightly utterly disparaged due to her comments and many a great article has illustrated and explained the batshit nature of what she said, Yes, she is a public face and so needed a wide, loud reaction to her anti trans nonsense but it’s been a long time since that was the issue and now it seems the point is about the liberty of voice and it’s seriously scary when “The Left” wave the banner for silencing and control.

Even worse when the source is a rather insidious organisation that poses as liberal and bandwagons an issue to attack “The Left” and “Free Speech” ....

P.S. Here is Jerry Leach, the kind of person I think we should be focusing on.