Cancel culture is alive and well on the Irish left, a left so small and isolated the idea that there is room to cancel others is bizarre.
Following the successful student protests in solidarity with Palestine which forced Trinity to dismantle its relationship with Israel, we sought and obtained an interesting interview with the TCD SU president László Molnárfi for publication on our website.
Half an hour after the interview we were contacted and told by László that he reviewed Gender Critical material on our site and requested that we not use the interview.
Half an hour after the interview we were contacted and told by László that he reviewed Gender Critical material on our site and requested that we not use the interview.
Our position is clear. We defend women’s rights and women’s spaces, those spaces include prisons where we object to men in general and sex offenders in particular being housed in Limerick Women’s prison, as they have been. These are legitimate positions to hold and whilst some right wing and conservative forces have also made statements on these issues, it is not right wing to defend women, just like it was not right wing to campaign against the Maastricht Treaty, Nice etc. even though many conservatives also campaigned for no votes, just like the left did.
It is bizarre that a socialist would refuse an interview with a socialist website has not only given interviews to the Irish Independent on Palestine and other issues, has even written an article for that same pro Zionist paper. Some of these, including the article he wrote are behind a paywall and not accessible to the general public for free. So, a pro Zionist bourgeois newspaper that has also published gender critical articles, but not from a left perspective, is kosher, but a socialist site that is gender critical is not. The contradiction is glaring and utterly reactionary.
It is bizarre that a socialist would refuse an interview with a socialist website has not only given interviews to the Irish Independent on Palestine and other issues, has even written an article for that same pro Zionist paper. Some of these, including the article he wrote are behind a paywall and not accessible to the general public for free. So, a pro Zionist bourgeois newspaper that has also published gender critical articles, but not from a left perspective, is kosher, but a socialist site that is gender critical is not. The contradiction is glaring and utterly reactionary.
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