I thought from the title this was going to be about silicon valley billionaires reinventing themselves with hair plugs and sudden body transformations in later life, but it isn't.
It's some anti-trans stuff from a tough-talking working class anarchist, who doesn't have time for all those "wankers from the university educated Left" yet instantly accuses those same people of being "misogynist and homophobic".
I can remember the good old days when it was the University educated Left complaining about misogyny and homophobia which was the alledged BS that some people railed against as a distraction from their own leftist concerns, so I guess this counts as a progressive victory. Well done to those "wankers from the University educated Left" for making that progress happen.
He's a working class anarchist who is peeved that the anarchist movement has been taken over by people who are effectively not anarchist at all, imposing authoritarian decrees on what can and can't be said (mostly around criticism of 'gender identity'), and threatening to call the police if their demands aren't mind.
The author makes an interesting point about the influence of the individualistic ideology, represented politically by Margaret Thatcher:
> This is a Thatcherite celebration of the "individual" as the be-all and end-all. She would have been proud of the individualistic bullshit they try to dress up as anarchism.
In a way, this, more generally applied to neuter the political left, was Thatcher's most long-lasting political achievement. As the article expounds, even far-left anarchist movements aren't immune to it, sadly.
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[ 4.5 ms ] story [ 12.9 ms ] threadIt's some anti-trans stuff from a tough-talking working class anarchist, who doesn't have time for all those "wankers from the university educated Left" yet instantly accuses those same people of being "misogynist and homophobic".
I can remember the good old days when it was the University educated Left complaining about misogyny and homophobia which was the alledged BS that some people railed against as a distraction from their own leftist concerns, so I guess this counts as a progressive victory. Well done to those "wankers from the University educated Left" for making that progress happen.
The author makes an interesting point about the influence of the individualistic ideology, represented politically by Margaret Thatcher:
> This is a Thatcherite celebration of the "individual" as the be-all and end-all. She would have been proud of the individualistic bullshit they try to dress up as anarchism.
In a way, this, more generally applied to neuter the political left, was Thatcher's most long-lasting political achievement. As the article expounds, even far-left anarchist movements aren't immune to it, sadly.