Context: #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphJackHardy "JK Rowling backs feminist campaigner who was 'assaulted' by balaclava-clad trans activists; Aleks Kovacevic says she was threatened with arrest by Greater Manchester Police after a scuffle broke out at statue of Emmeline Pankhurst" (16 May 2022). #IRLAuthorJKRowling #ToponymEuropeUKManchester #OrgUKManchesterTransRiseUpMTRU
Supplementary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XINVuhNa8GY And https://www.alamy.com/manchester-uk-15th-may-2022-anti-trans-protesters-clash-with-the-pro-trans-protesters-at-the-emmeline-pankhurst-statue-pro-trans-protesters-gathered-at-st-peters-square-to-protest-posey-parker-a-feminist-speaker-who-organised-a-rally-in-manchester-credit-sopa-images-limitedalamy-live-news-image469913401.html
Context: #NewspaperUSBrdshtLosAngelesTimesNardineSaad "'Harry Potter' author and British billionaire J.K. Rowling quipped that she'll purchase Macy Gray's 'entire back catalogue' after the 'I Try' singer made controversial remarks in line with Rowling's beliefs on gender identity.
The apparent pledge came after the Grammy winner appeared Monday on 'Piers Morgan Uncensored' and said she agreed with Rowling that transitioning, having gender-affirming surgery or using she/her pronouns 'doesn't make you a woman.'
As backlash over Gray's interview with Morgan heated up online, a Twitter user mused that Gray's remarks will 'kill what's left' of her career." https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2022-07-05/macy-gray-catalog-jk-rowling-transphobic-comments #IRLBroadcasterPiersMorgan
#IRLComedianRickyGervais versus #OtheringElitesHollywoodHollyweird #_CondemnationGender
Addendum: Gervais is becoming a symbol for those critical of #IdentityLGBTQIATrans issues i.e. those invested in a #TheoryDeterminismBiologicalGenetic worldview. This is similar to support for #IRLAuthorJKRowling - as per her support for #SlurTERF, which is presumably because it represents a position that is somewhat antithetical to progressive causes i.e. #MetaphorWarfareEnemyOfMyEnemyIsMyFriend.
#IRLScholarKathleenStock,
#IRLConsultantMayaForstater,
#IRLScholarAlisonBailey,
#MagazineUKTheEconomistHelenJoyce,
#OrgUKGetTheLOutLianeTimmermann,
#IRLBusinesspersonAngelaWild,
#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphSuzanneMoore,
#IRLWriterJulieBindel,
and #IRLAuthorJKRowling
#MetaphorWarfareGender #SlurTERF
Context: https://www.hogwartsprofessor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/2022-Lunch.png
Supplementary: https://www.hogwartsprofessor.com/london-ladies-liquid-lunch-terf-tea-rowling-revels-reels-out-riddikulus/
#SlurTERF #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPRandPaul #IRLPrivateCitizenKelleyPaul #IRLAuthorJKRowling
Context: #MagazineUSQueertyGrahamGremore "Rand Paul's wife, Kelley, took a break from her usual rage tweeting about Black Lives Matter and mask mandates to defend JK Rowling this week." https://www.queerty.com/rand-pauls-wife-lets-terf-flag-fly-defending-transphobic-author-jk-rowling-20220223
tweet responding to Die Tageszeitung article criticising a #BrandMetaInstagram post by #NMDEZDF, which supposedly includes a #OtheringDiscriminationRacism.ist slur.
Context: https://www.rollingstone.de/zdf-unterstellt-dem-kinderlied-wer-hat-die-kokosnuss-geklaut-rassismus-2401763/ https://www.instagram.com/aroundtheword/ And https://www.instagram.com/p/CYrmO_EME_p/
Supplementary: Grada Kilomba (2008). 'Plantation Memories: Episodes of Everyday Racism'.
#WebsiteSpikedAndrewDoyleAKATitaniaMcGrath tweet seeking to draw parallels between controversy about the misrepresentation of #IdentityIndigenousBlackPeopleOfColourBIPOC and discussions about a supposed #OtheringHateAntisemitismCaricatureGoblin trope in #IRLAuthorJKRowling's #FictionalCharacterHarryPotter (and therefore wider controversy about Rowling and the #SlurTERF position). i.e. using a #ReasoningFallacyStrawman to serve a #PleaAWorldOfSimpleStableFixedOperations agenda.
Context: https://momentmag.com/debunking-the-harry-potter-anti-semitism-myth/
Supplementary: #NewspaperDEBrdshtDieTageszeitungTazSilkeMertins "It's part of the business model at Bild to whine about leftists. ... One wonders who exactly Bild has in mind when she talks about 'our children'. With around 40 percent of first graders having a migration background, it is high time to discuss which songs and images of society are still appropriate today."
"Es gehört bei der Bild zum Geschäftsmodell, über Linke zu jammern. ...Man fragt sich, wen genau Bild im Kopf hat, wenn sie von 'unseren Kindern' spricht. Denn mit rund 40 Prozent Erstklässlern mit Migrationshintergrund wird es höchste Zeit, darüber zu diskutieren, welche Lieder und Gesellschaftsbilder heute noch angemessen sind." https://taz.de/Rassismus-in-Kinderbuechern/!5826402/ #PhenomnColonialism #NewspaperDETabloidBildZeitung
#NewspaperESTabloidElMundoLaLectura #IRLAuthorJKRowling #SlurTERF #WebsiteSpikedAndrewDoyleAKATitaniaMcGrath
Context: "We live in troubled times. Culture and freedom of expression are beset by intransigence. Identity fervors, populism and sectarianism gain ground and join forces to impose 'cancellation' and censorship, in a global context of crisis and questioning of the principles and values of liberal democracies. EL MUNDO has not wanted to be left out of these challenges. For this reason, La Lectura was born with the vocation to vindicate the principles of the Enlightenment and appeal to reason, education and a critical sense." https://www.elmundo.es/cultura/2021/12/28/61cafe6ffdddffb9528b45a2.html
Supplementary: this is a #LiteralSourcePrintMedia with [Xiaomi] 'Redmi Note 9T' burnt in to bottom-left of image.
"Kobolds have been depicted in the same way for ages, but when it happens in a film related to J.K. Rowling, it's suddenly an anti-Semitic caricature. woke" #NewspaperNLBrdshtDeVolkskrantFloortjeSmit https://www.volkskrant.nl/cultuur-media/is-de-transfobe-j-k-rowling-nu-ook-al-een-antisemiet~b027d6cf/ #IRLAuthorJKRowling
"The totalitarian temptation haunts society ... It is submitting the present but also the past ... Rewriting the past is characteristic of #PoliticsAuthoritarianismAutocracyTotalitarianism ... And when we exclude #IRLAuthorJKRowling author of #FictionalCharacterHarryPotter we is in totalitarianism ... in #TauntWokeCulture "
#NewspaperESBrdshtElPaisFrancoisBonnet
https://elpais.com/ideas/2021-08-15/ha-sido-usted-cancelado-el-movimiento-woke-y-su-falta-de-relativismo-moral.html (15 August 2021).
Google Translate (Spanish to English):
*You have been canceled: the 'woke' movement and its lack of moral relativism*
In this new social conscience, ideas that do not fall into the category of acceptable are considered radically immoral.
At the beginning of the last decade, young progressives in the West, angered by the consequences of the Great Recession, mobilised to occupy the streets, read Thomas Piketty's theory of economic inequalities at 1,000 pages in length, and demonstrated against the 1% made up of the richest. All that has been forgotten. Young progressives are now woke, that is, they are more socially conscious and more outraged by racial and gender injustices. In colleges, professors have become cautious when tackling sensitive topics, especially if the class is broadcasting on Zoom. And the new social conscience is not just a thing for young people. The latest Hollywood movies have increasingly diverse castings, and men are overshadowed by the starring role of perfect women. The more traditional newspapers have begun to speak of "supreme white". "Nike and even the CIA run ads talking about patriarchy and intersectionality.
The word woke (awake, aware) began to be used in the African-American fight against racism, but it has also come to designate progressive politics on gender and trans rights in particular. The horrific videos of unarmed black men being murdered by police officers that began circulating on social media in the mid-2010s notably boosted critical race theory, an intellectual trend that emerged in university law departments. and sociology. In recent years, the right wing has also started to use the word, but with an ironic and pejorative connotation: if someone speaks of wokism (in a pejorative tone) there is no doubt that they are opposed to racial and gender politics. ist.
In many ways, this woke wave is reminiscent of the political correctness of the 1990s and its emphasis on controlling language. Today's activists tend to be outraged by any pressure that they find problematic and controversial, at words that, in today's environment, are not only seen as mildly controversial, but have consequences. Contrary to what happens in most currents of the intellectual left, the Woke movement is not relativistic at all; when a person receives the qualification of problematic they run the risk of ending up "canceled", disappeared. This new awareness is a stained phenomenon: ideas or behaviours that do not fall into the category of acceptable are considered radically immoral. But the woke movement has also become an obsession for the right wing, which enjoys being outraged because something or someone has been "canceled". Being against the woke allows conservative media and politicians today to unite for a new cause, but the revolt that each case of cultural cancellation provokes distracts the right and prevents it from making a fundamental political reflection.
Another striking aspect of the woke movement is how it prioritises different types of oppression. The new social consciousness includes feminism, but according to "intersectional" principles, feminists must give the first line to transgender rights, as the controversy around J. K. Rowling (the Harry Potter writer starred in a controversy last year by hinting that in order to be a woman she has menstruation). The "Karen" meme - which portrays the stereotype of a white, bourgeois and racist woman - indicates that feminism is also below anti-racism. Another example was the resistance of the German media to talk about the sexual assaults that occurred during the celebrations. New Year's Eve 2016 for fear of being accused of stigmatising the alleged culprits.
It is curious that European activists have adopted aspects of the Woke movement that are specific to the United States: for example, the denunciation of the actors against the blackface or the murder of George Floyd became international phenomena.
But the fundamental difference between Europe and the US is in the legislation. The laws against discrimination are much stricter in the United States than in Europe. In the US, corporate human resources departments have been offering employees training courses on inclusion and diversity since the 1970s. The future of the Woke movement on both sides of the Atlantic will depend on the ability of activists and their adversaries to take advantage of the current moral outrage to make significant legal changes.
François Bonnet is a sociologist at the French Center for Scientific Research. He is the author of The Upper Limit (University of California Press, 2019).
Translation by María Luisa Rodríguez Tapia.
#CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #TauntCultureCancel #2007_GlobalFinancialCrisisGFC #IRLScholarThomasPiketty #PoliticsProgressivismSocialLiberalism #TechServiceZoom #SlurWhiteSupremacy #BrandNike #TauntLeftCultural #PoliticallyCorrectPC #PoliticsFascismNaziNeoFarRightAltRightRadicalRight #CauseFeminism #IRLAuthorJKRowling #FictionalCharacterHarryPotter #TauntKaren #OtheringCaricatureImperialismBlackfaceBlackingUp #IRLDeceasedGeorgeFloyd #OtheringDiscriminationRacism #PolicyDiversityEquityAndInclusionDEI
#NewspaperNLBrdshtDeVolkskrantMarciaLuyten https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie/de-cancelgekte-drijft-gematigde-progressieven-naar-rechts-en-weg-zijn-alle-andere-linkse-idealen~b8efa489/
#ToponymEuropeNetherlands #TauntCultureCancel
#OrgITLaBiennaleDiVenezia #IRLAuthorJKRowling #MetaphorSalemWitchTrials
#NewspaperNLTabloidNRCHandelsbladClariceGargard
#OtheringHateTransphobia
#EDUUSUniversityOfHarvardCaroleHooven
Context: "In response to How will we live together?, Het Nieuwe Instituut presents Who is We? together with architect Afaina de Jong and artist Debra Solomon. The project questions dominant narratives and urban structures by confronting them with an urbanism that is female, indigenous, of colour, queer, and multispecies. Many of today's ecological, urban, and social urgencies have resulted from systems based on prevailing hegemonies and were materialised through design. Who is We? advocates design values that acknowledge the plurality of humans and more-than-humans to create a more just urban environment.
Who is We? includes talks, research projects, and discussions, both live and online." https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2021/netherlands
https://fd.nl/futures/1385023/we-zijn-honderden-jaren-van-verlichting-en-kritisch-denken-aan-het-uitroeien #IRLScholarGadSaad #CauseFeminism #TheoryPostmodern i.e. #TheoryPostmodernConservatism #TheoryCriticalRaceTheoryCRT #TheoryDeterminismBiologicalGenetic #OtheringDiscriminationRacismSystemicInstitutional #CatchcryIdentityPolitics #TauntCultureCancel #PoliticallyCorrectPC #IRLScholarJordanPeterson #MagazineUKTheSpectatorDouglasMurray #PhenomnScientificMethod / #EpistemologyPositivism #IRLAuthorJKRowling #PoliticsFascismNazi
#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianOwenJones #IRLDeceasedGeorgeFloyd #OrgClassifPPUKLabourDianeAbbott #LiteralPolice #IRLDictatorJosephStalin #IRLBroadcasterPiersMorgan #IdentityLGBTQIATrans #PhenomnStatueToppling / #SymbolWarMemorialUKCenotaph ? #OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyNigelFarage #IRLActorNishKumar #PlatformSMTwitterTWTR #IRLAuthorJKRowling #OrgClassifPPUKLabourJeremyCorbyn #MemeIslamicRageBoy #PleaLawAndOrder / #PhenomnDissentCivilUnrest #NMUKBBC #SymbolHijabNiqabBurqa #OrgClassifPPCNChineseCommunistPartyCCPXiJinping #SymbolEmblemFlagUKUnionJackFlagshagger #PleaVandalism #IRLHistoricalFigureWinstonChurchill
