“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.
It was their final, most essential command.” - George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
How gender ideology, billionaire dark money, and authoritarian groupthink are tearing the Green Party apart…
Is it possible for a political party to claim it is saving the planet while simultaneously denying the most fundamental biological reality of the species that inhabits it?
The Green Party was once, however briefly, a genuine refuge for people who believed that politics ought to be grounded in material reality: in the physical world, in measurable consequences, in science. It believed in ecosystems and feedback loops; in the hard logic of cause and effect. It understood that you cannot simply wish away inconvenient truths, whether those truths concern carbon emissions or the biological distinction between male and female human beings. That, at least, is what many of its founding members believed they had joined.
What they discovered instead is something altogether more alarming: a party leadership so in thrall to a well-funded ideological orthodoxy that it is prepared to break its own rules, exhaust its own finances, and silence its own women rather than acknowledge what a unanimous Supreme Court has since confirmed in law.
It was their final, most essential command.” - George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
How gender ideology, billionaire dark money, and authoritarian groupthink are tearing the Green Party apart…
Is it possible for a political party to claim it is saving the planet while simultaneously denying the most fundamental biological reality of the species that inhabits it?
The Green Party was once, however briefly, a genuine refuge for people who believed that politics ought to be grounded in material reality: in the physical world, in measurable consequences, in science. It believed in ecosystems and feedback loops; in the hard logic of cause and effect. It understood that you cannot simply wish away inconvenient truths, whether those truths concern carbon emissions or the biological distinction between male and female human beings. That, at least, is what many of its founding members believed they had joined.
What they discovered instead is something altogether more alarming: a party leadership so in thrall to a well-funded ideological orthodoxy that it is prepared to break its own rules, exhaust its own finances, and silence its own women rather than acknowledge what a unanimous Supreme Court has since confirmed in law.
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Excellent demolition of the gender critical fundamentalism of the Green Party. Should prove an obstacle to building on their success at the Gorton and Denton by-election. There are other identity based nastiness lurking behind Zach Polanski's perma grin.
ReplyDeleteBizarre article. Trying to imply that $20 million dollars from an american company into supporting transgender rights means that it's sort of capitalist conspiracy is absurd. I also don't understand why Paul is expecting socialism from any green party, it's pretty much got liberalism printed on the tin.
ReplyDelete"There is a useful thought experiment here. Imagine explaining this situation to a trade union delegate in 1970, or to a Fabian socialist of the generation that built the NHS. You are asking them to accept that the question of whether a man can become a woman, not metaphorically or spiritually but in every legal and institutional sense, is now the defining cause of the British left." Here's the thing though Paul, it's really not "the defining cause of the british left", is it? And im sure if you spoke to a 70's activist about gay rights you might get some bad responses too.
Doubt it will prove much of an obstacle to anything electorally, I think people who obsess themselves over trans rights are a loud minority.