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I don’t agree with Elmer that identity politics is behind the closing of ranks of some Western Covid sceptics along the geopolitical interests of their ruling class. At most it’s a side argument to bolster Zionist prejudice.

I noticed five prominent gender critical public figures amongst October declaration signatories: Graham Linehan, Julie Bindel, Julie Burchill, Helen Joyce and Maya Forstater. These people heroically battle transgender ideology, for the sake of biological reality, the sex-based rights of women and girls, the protection of homosexuality as a sexual category, and for the protection of minors from unnecessary medical interventions, risking their careers and status in the same way prominent Covid sceptics did. These people are very “anti-woke“. They do not support the TQ in LGBTQ.

I think the main reason Western ‘outsider’ figures do not break with Western-instilled Zionist propaganda is that they truly believe in Western supremacy, racist by its very nature. I noticed this informed the thinking, in a relatively benign way, of some within the Freedom Movement, that is, a deep desire for ‘rationality’.

In the gender critical movement, the Western supremacy of the radical feminist movement is more insidious, where it combines a resentment, bordering on hatred, towards men, who they blame for violence, all epitomised in this case by ‘Hamas’, with anti-Arab racism. Rather than locating the root of violence in a brutal capitalist system based on competition, inequality and war, it’s easier, and less challenging, to blame male violence and/or religious ’irrationality’, than to try to understand, and reject, the priorities of the system and its ruthless geopolitical dynamics.

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Great, honest commentary as usual. Yes the silver lining, if you can use that phrase, is that some chaff has been identified, like Toby "Free speech for me but not for thee" Young.

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