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[Pierre]

Originally Posted by TheDaddy

I don't like the way the BBC strives for impartiality and balance at all costs

Is this part of your stand up routine? That’s brilliant.

Originally Posted by Pierre

Is this part of your stand up routine? That’s brilliant.

He’s not wrong though. What they often achieve however, rather than balance, is false equivalence. And when they have to present a big story without a big voice on either side of it, they end up interviewing their own staff, which can often give their main news bulletins a very paternalistic feel (Roger Harrabin, their Environment evangelist Analyst, is the very worst at this).

I'm just sick of talking heads most of whom I've never heard of and are seldom referred to again.

[Richardr]

Originally Posted by Mick

the big issue at the moment is transgenderism

seriously?

Are people lying to pollsters when they say it is (IPSOS MORI this week):

The cost of living 67%
The UK government’s policies for dealing with asylum seekers 47%
Climate change 47%
The Covid-19 pandemic 43%
The UK government’s proposals for reducing regional inequalities, also known as levelling-up 42%
The war in Ukraine 38%
Stories about Downing St parties that broke Covid regulations 37%

Transgenderism is an issue to a small number of right wingers - not to anyone else.

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by Richardr

seriously?

Are people lying to pollsters when they say it is (IPSOS MORI this week):

The cost of living 67%
The UK government’s policies for dealing with asylum seekers 47%
Climate change 47%
The Covid-19 pandemic 43%
The UK government’s proposals for reducing regional inequalities, also known as levelling-up 42%
The war in Ukraine 38%
Stories about Downing St parties that broke Covid regulations 37%

Transgenderism is an issue to a small number of right wingers - not to anyone else.

Well, transgender issues absolutely never come up in any conversation I’ve had or have overheard. I suspect it’s only militant trannies and serial societal disrupters who like to talk about this.

Originally Posted by Richardr

seriously?

Are people lying to pollsters when they say it is (IPSOS MORI this week):

The cost of living 67%
The UK government’s policies for dealing with asylum seekers 47%
Climate change 47%
The Covid-19 pandemic 43%
The UK government’s proposals for reducing regional inequalities, also known as levelling-up 42%
The war in Ukraine 38%
Stories about Downing St parties that broke Covid regulations 37%

Transgenderism is an issue to a small number of right wingers - not to anyone else.

Utter bollocks.

0 out of 10 for taking a line out of my entire post to make a bullshit post about right wing stuff. It’s nothing to do with being right wing to have common sense when it comes to there being just two sexes. And I’ll take a qualified biologist view over your armchair claptrap any day.

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Well, transgender issues absolutely never come up in any conversation I’ve had or have overheard. I suspect it’s only militant trannies and serial societal disrupters who like to talk about this.

Or Right Wing pundits and newspapers trying to inflame Culture Wars…

Originally Posted by Hugh

Or Right Wing pundits and newspapers trying to inflame Culture Wars…

Or actual women trying to protect their sex from being over ridden by men, who change gender but still want to compete in women sports and have the upper hand.

[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by Hugh

Or Right Wing pundits and newspapers trying to inflame Culture Wars…

Culture wars? Surely the war against woke and the vicious war waged by the transgender Nazis who deny the biological obvious.

[Pierre]

Originally Posted by Mick

Or actual women trying to protect their sex from being over ridden by men, who change gender but still want to compete in women sports and have the upper hand.

It’s an issue that is, although quite small in the great scheme of things, gaining traction. It is not Trans-genderism as such, but certainly Gender ideology is infiltrating society and corporations.

Pronouns on email sigs etc.

Personally, I just politely advise that I do not subscribe to gender ideology, as that is all it is, an ideology not based in any fact. I’m also very careful to differentiate between sex and gender. People will push back on it. Especially in regards to male bodied athletes in woman sports and male bodied people in women only spaces……..

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

Culture wars? Surely the war against woke and the vicious war waged by the transgender Nazis who deny the biological obvious.

Q E D…

Emotive disparaging inflammatory language….

"War against woke", "vicious war", transgender Nazis"…

Careful, you’re turning into a Republican Congressional Representative



*she’s talking about Disney…

[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by Hugh

Q E D…

Emotive disparaging inflammatory language….

"War against woke", "vicious war", transgender Nazis"…

Careful, you’re turning into a Republican Congressional Representative



*she’s talking about Disney…

Absolute woke rubbish from you. The war on woke is an important mission.

Nothing inflammatory about "transgender Nazis" in the context of its use. Those who harass people on twitter, etc, are total ****.

This is all a very 'online' discussion and yet it generates a lot of anger at something that doesn't impact the day to day lives of the vast majority of people in this country. Richardr is right that most people seem to be concerned about their energy bills and wider cost of living.

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by Damien

This is all a very 'online' discussion and yet it generates a lot of anger at something that doesn't impact the day to day lives of the vast majority of people in this country. Richardr is right that most people seem to be concerned about their energy bills and wider cost of living.

[Pierre]

Originally Posted by Hugh

Q E D…

Emotive disparaging inflammatory language….

"War against woke", "vicious war", transgender Nazis"…

Careful, you’re turning into a Republican Congressional Representative



*she’s talking about Disney…

Poor, I mean even from you, very poor. It’s a very nuanced discussion, that needs to be discussed.

I would have thought someone of your maturity could see that, but no. Just throw in the right v left attack that achieves absolutely zero.

I’ll await your GIF.

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Originally Posted by Damien

This is all a very 'online' discussion and yet it generates a lot of anger at something that doesn't impact the day to day lives of the vast majority of people in this country. Richardr is right that most people seem to be concerned about their energy bills and wider cost of living.

I agree, it is very much in the Twitter verse.

But it is now over spilling into everyday life and discourse. Cancel culture, normalisation in corporations, in child and infant education (most worryingly).

It’s easy and convenient to dismiss, but it is here. To say the majority are worrying about other things is correct, but be warned thing is growing and should be watched…very carefully.