Y'know, I stand with Palestinians because it's right, but it's not for nothing that every single "Gender critical" ideologue also seems to be a committed Zionist, the same people loathe and dehumanise us both, and in that the Palestinian people have my solidarity.
She 74, won't be long now. That's going to be a great day.
I know Hbomb made this comment on her already but it's insane how Phillips has spent the last like 40 years of journalism being a hateful fearmonger who has never been on the right side of history even once.
I've noticed that most people who support reprehensible things never stop at supporting one - they always seem to support most or all of the bad things.
If you haven't, you should see what she has to say about Irish independence too. Yikes
Oh I remember her comments about us all too well, and the antivax stuff as well.
Even before she dropped the "Middle-aged moment" excuse for her transphobia, JK Rowling would refer to Scottish Nationalists as "Anglophobic" and obviously you've got "Seamus Finnegan". The Venn Diagram of Transphobes and People Who Think The Celts Are Too Uppity is a circle.
I'd suspect her opinions on Kneecap and Bob Vylan are quite rancid lol
I love how every time I see Philips, it's always for a bad take of hers. At no point in her entire career has she ever been on the right side of history, going all the way back to the MMR scare.
It's always a circle that people who hate and want Trans people dead, are keen and giddy to do the same to others
It’s funny there’s a huge crossover of all the worst people backing Israel
Isn’t this the lady from the Hbomb video about antivaxxers who really loved Andrew Wakefield and complained whenever people criticized her
The very same
Using her like a reverse moral compass and just assuming she's on the wrong side of anything
She’s also quoted in Anders Breivik’s manifesto!
Hoooooly shit I didn’t know that that’s WAY worse
Came here to say this, lol. Kinda funny that she's famous for being an asshole biggot exposed by a YouTuber.
Forgotten by most, remembered as a stupid asshole by everyone else cause a bald guy with an axe informed them
Oh my god
Literally the only place I know her from, "Bigot of the Year" award-winner who was wrong about vaccinations and complained when scientists called her out on it. Pathetic.
Zionists are so bigoted and they keep trying to turn people's hate torwards others. people can care about more than 1 thing at the same time.
Wait you mean if I am AGAINST the GENOCIDE of innocent civilians I am pissing off this fuckstick? DON'T THREATEN ME WITH A GOOD TIME! Seriously, who the FUCK gave this moron a platform? I am sure if I read her work I would find more value in AI written columns.
“You should stop standing up for Palestinians because they would hate you for being trans. Now hang on real quick while I stop standing up for you because I hate you for being trans.” - The Smartest Neoliberal
Bigotry is intersectional
Palestinian liberation and trans rights are a shared struggle and anyone that cant see that or how this extends to so many other struggles out there doesn't get the core driving motivation to support a cause they aren't directly a part of. It's just basic empathy and compassion, it's that simple.
it's never just transphobia
And of course it's Melanie fucking Phillips. It always is.
Just using Phillips as an example here, because she's currently over on Twitter calling starving Palestinians liars/fake and defending IDF war crimes, but it seems like a lockstep bigotry with most of them.
I used to work for The Times and Phillips is such a corrosive and hateful person she was probably the second most complained about contributor to the newspaper, and this was from her target audience demographic! She was only beaten out by others who would intentionally troll for clicks
If it wasn't evident before, it's hatemongers like that who make it crystal clear where our solidarities should be
Martin Luther King was right. We should stand with oppressed people everywhere, for the oppression is one and the same. The hierarchy is a house of cards.
Fucking boomers I swear.
A GC bandying accusations of antisemitism is particularly rich, considering how many of them engage in straight-up blood libel.
Scratch a TERF and a fascist bleeds.
Phillips is one of the most prominent fascists of our times.
"It's not surprising Phillips is wrong about this. It's her job to be wrong about everything." -Hbomberguy
It’s very telling that they’re all in an overlapping zen diagram basket together, innit Just. A big ol- Human centipede daisychain of flat eathers, zionists, terfs, holocaust deniers and lizardpeople truthseekers. They deserve eachother, they really do.
Do you mean a Venn Diagram?
No I-- I mean like Like a really chilled-out meditative yes
😂😂 Thx, I needed a good chuckle today
It's okay, when you have that many colors overlap it turns black like their hearts, and they there's no diagram left 😵
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i don't even see what is there to debate. "melanie phillips" is defending someone who is internationally wanted for war crimes
the fact that melanie phillips wasn't stranded on an inaccessible island after the breivik thing is a huge indictment of society tbqh
Oh, she is THAT lady?
has JKR actually said anything about it...because I wouldn't be surprised if she is pro-Isreal and saying the Goblin Bankers in Harry Potter is not Antisemitic.
checking it is right on the Wikipedia Article.
You won't find many Single Issue Bigots out there; once the door is opened for one, hatred for the rest usually filters in pretty seamlessly.
I mean melanie philips was also a figurehead of the ROR antivax movement, according to Hbomberguy [ it's her job to be wrong all the time. ]
She's also a trailblazer for likes of Suzanne Moore and Hadley Freeman in lurching from the Guardian to right-wing 'so much for the so-called tolerant left' hackery. With Sonia Sodha, patiently waiting for the next opening.
Also recipient of a bigot award.
I'm old enough to remember that pro-Israeli people used to keep saying "but Palestinians hate you, LGBT folks, you shouldn't support them" but I'm guessing that they've given up on it a good while ago Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if I seen someone equating trans people with Hamas
Obviously they never meant it, it was all just a poor attempt at distracting us, but alas it didn't work so they gave up and became openly hostile to us as well
They still do this. The pink washing of atrocity makes my blood boil.
Israel spends significantly more money promoting Tel Aviv Pride to international tourists than they spend on actual LGBTQ+ rights groups in the country. At one point the disparity was more than 10:1. They also love to make unprovoked attacks right before Pride so it gets cancelled by retaliation.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Bigotry is inclusive in its exclusivity. It's inherently intersectional on the groups any given bigot wants to target. That's why they try to shut down our intersectional efforts. They know that the only way they can genocide us is by dividing us.
From A.R. Moxon's blog "So Shines a Good Deed in a Weary World"
There is a reason Zionists and Nazis have crossover. @shaunvids.bsky.social made a video about this very thing, I believe.
Wasn't she favorably cited by mass murder of children anders breivik? You would think that would be a wakeup call but I guess she is ideologically consistent on the deaths of children.
I mean the venn diagram of people who want to kill both trans people and Palestinians feels like a circle at this point.
The two bigotries are pretty simalar in design. Just find/replace mysoginy with antisemitism, autogynophile with jihadi/terrorist, protecting women's spaces with protecting the only "Jewish state" etc etc
There's a reason "scratch a transphobe" is such an accurate statement. I've yet to come across a transphobe who isn't also bigoted in a number of other ways.
in a lot of these cases, these were regular far right figures who just managed to launder their image into it being Just About The Trans Thing with the willing participation of (other) media figures
when someone draws hard lines like that, where people's lives are being destroyed for some fucked up ideology, this is a person who doesn't actually care about other human beings or the broader world.
"If you're bigoted against one thing, you're bigoted against more than one thing." -Me, circa 2015
