“Graham Linehan has a long history of offensive, rude and personal tweets – but when does language become incitement to violence?" The arrest of the Father Ted writer and anti-trans activist has sparked a new 'free-speech' debate. Is he an extremist?
He's an unapologetic bigot who regularly threatens and sexualises minors and you want to have a reasoned debate about it.
When he encourages actual violence. Which he did.
A podcast by the three stupidest people in the fucking country.
Yes he is. That was very easy to solve.
What if, say, someone were to poast that anyone who sees a reporter from the news agents they should punch them in the genitals? Would that be considered incitement, oh wise ones?
No comment? Simple hypothetical, newsagents. What if someone were to say that all news agents are groomers and degenerates who should be assaulted if they go to pee in public? That's just "free speech," right?
I think it's a pretty easy call that clearly and unambiguously telling followers to assault trans women is incitement to violence.
@newsagents.bsky.social don’t miss out the very reason Linehan was returning to the U.K.. He was returning to appear before court today charged with crimes committed against a child, 17 at the time of the alleged offences. Linehan allegedly harassed, assaulted and damaged property of a child.
Maybe when he’s telling people to “punch them in the balls”?
In all seriousness. As a woman & a member of the public, it is chilling that you think Linehan's behaviour is acceptable. This wasn't some random person making a comment. Linehan has a history of harassing women and is currently on trial for allegedly attacking a minor. He's a credible threat.
Linehan is an extremist, and he encouraged his followers to beat up gender nonconforming women.
Maybe when the language is "punch him in the balls"?
It became incitement to violence when he instructed his large following to punch us in the balls, you evil cunts
'when does the language become incitement to violence?' When he posted that people should punch trans women for existing. This isn't a mystery or moral grey area. He specifically called for violence against a minority. He's a horrid little man encouraging violence and hatred.
Yes. The explicit content of the comments in question is to literally perform an act of violence upon another person. It is incitement of violence, and Linehan is a violent, extremist, stochastic terrorist. This is fact.
if only there were another word for anti-trans activist like shithead bigot
Yes he is.
"When does language become incitement to violence?" When it incites violence, when someone says to physically attack people?!
I think Starmer has made it perfectly clear it’s fine to be transphobic now. You can ostracise trans people from public life with impunity for starters…
He has a long history of threatening violence against trans women and women who disagree with him, a history of advocating for violence, a history of doxing people, publishing indecent images of trans children, stalking, homophobic abuse and is in court today on a charge of… 1.
Assaulting a child. He is not an innocent man. 2.
"is it extreme to call for the public to punch trans women in the balls? We debate whether trans people's lives are worth anything." - You
He stalked, harrassed, threatened, and assaulted a fucking trans GIRL, a CHILD, you sick freaks! That is what he is on trial for! You're dishonest monsters for painting this as a "free speech" issue. You very clearly view stalking, harrassing, and assaulting trans girls as acceptable.
Unless he resorted to painting pictures, is it possible to incite to violence without language? But anyway, it's the bit where he was telling people to punch women in public toilets.
Sorry if it spoils Emily’s dinner parties, but yes he is an extremist and he carries it through to his political and physical activities. Just like others who share Maitlis’ gender critical views
Yes. Moving on.
you guys are such fucking pussies, jesus christ
This is journalistic malpractice, the man encouraged violence against a whole group of people. How THE FUCK is that not extremism?
Hasn't just attended court for actual violence
When you directly call for violence. Hope that helps.
"When does language become incitement to violence?" When the language is a suggestion to commit violence.
He sure does like violence against women
A pensioner holds up a sign opposing a genocide: Terrorist lock them up. An utterly obsessed bigot makes multiple tweets telling his followers to violently assault women they don’t like the look of: Actually, it is very important that this guy is allowed to speak freely.
Yes, he is.
The government has helpfully spelled out its definition of what constitutes "extremism". Below is an extract describing "behaviour that could constitute extremism". www.gov.uk/government/p...
That reads like Linehan's mission statement.
cool cool
yes, he is next question
He literally called for people to physically assault trans women, fuck all the way off
Yes, he is an extremist. And if you’d actually investigated his social media behaviour you would be informing your listeners rather than opining based on a very small amount of information.
Language becomes incitement to violence when it's directed at people the News Agents values (MPs) and not people it doesn't (trans people).
When it incites violence, perhaps? Perhaps also when he is _on film_ violently striking a trans person, and that's the actual reason why he finds himself in criminal court? bsky.app/profile/alan...
I mean, he's attempting to incite violence so you know, yes, he is an extremist. Being an asshole and an extremist are pretty compatible.
He’s explicitly called for violence against trans people, hate crimes against trans communities is on the rise, what are you even doing here?
Just a thought: but I’d guess it’s maybe when he incites people to violence.
He's a divorce extremist for being lonely and miserable
He's a certified cnut
He assaulted a 17 year old girl. He's stalked, doxxed, harassed and incited violence again countless people. He is the definition of an extremist and is a danger to society
Yes he is, and "if you see a trans woman, punch her in the balls" is as obvious an incitement to violence as it gets.
Yes. He's cooked. Has been for a long time. What's your next disingenuous question?
it is journalistic malpractice to pretend that what happened to linehan — which is downstream of a legal proceeding over a prior physical altercation — could happen to any random person off the street this level of omission is what we call "lying"
I think you all should be slowly submerged in cartoon acid. Now imagine someone said that about a minority group in actual danger. Fuck you rot in hell 'news' agents
Anyone with a platform who encourages violence spreads that violence. Hate crime has been rising. The discourse as to it's only a minority because it's a rainbow community. If the group he was attacking were, a particular race, disability, age, then would there be empathy for why it's a problem?
Thanks for clarifying where you stand, i.e. with the TERFs
Language becomes incitement to violence when someone expresses a desire for someone else to enact violence against someone.
He explicitly encouraged his followers to assault trans people using the toilet. Would you be asking this question if he'd encouraged his followers to assault black women using the toilet or Muslim women? If not, why the double standard?
that law has been in place for a while, yes? Why is it now, when it’s being used to protect trans people, suddenly a matter of “debate”? Fucking Wilhoit’s law in action here.
Is he an extremist? If he’d been talking about a religious or ethnic minority, this probably wouldn’t even be a question. If you don’t think incitement to violence against trans people needs to be taken seriously, it’s likely because you don’t really believe they are human.
Is Graham Linehan perhaps responsible for the rapes and crimes you bring up for seemingly no reason whatsoever? You're only talking about him because of his violent threats and incitement against a minority the British media class like to bash.
Yes. Undeniably.
Fuck off with this disingenuous bullshit. This isn't journalism.
I cannot fully articulate how incredibly disappointing it is seeing you do this.
When it it become incitement to violence? Probably when he told his followers to physically assault strangers by punching them. Any other ways you'd like me to do your job today?
Your free speech champion. bsky.app/profile/alan...
“Graham Linehan has a long history of offensive, rude and personal tweets – but when does language become incitement to violence?" Notice the switcheroo: when an exhortation to punch trans women in the genitalia becomes "tweets" and then just "language" Supporters of Linehan defend language itself
It was probably the bit where Linehan told his followers to beat up women. I'm genuinely disturbed by how comfortable the British press are with celebrities threatening women. Misogyny is alive and well.
"when does language become incitement to violence?" Difficult question, that.
When you try to incite violence, that language typically is understood as incitement to violence, you numbnuts.
Yes. Yes, he is.
Yes he's an extremist. You're welcome
He’s an attention seeking genital obsessive. He’s loving this.
Doesn't that make it an even bigger waste of police time? Have they fallen into his trap?
Quite - it’s all another step on the road to martyrdom for him
Yes, people will see armed police arresting him for a statement many of them probably agree with and just think it's another example of "wokeness gone mad".
He was arrested in an airport. All the bizzies in airports are armed. It wasn't as if the Met sent an armed response unit to lift him. Incitement to violence is still a crime. If only for the time being.
So who decided it was so urgent and he was such a danger that they couldn't wait until he got home?
He apparently lives in Arizona.
He's a violent dangerous man. He shouldn't get a free pass just because the right wing media are cunts.
Is he really, though? Or just a sad middle-aged man who spends too much time on the internet?
He's in court today for assaulting a 17 year old...
Not at all, as he was specifically arrested because he encouraged people to sexually assault women in bathrooms while he is involved in a legal case where he is accused of assaulting a minor
Sexually assault by punching them in the balls?
Yes. Punching women in their genitals is sexual assault. Weird how you don’t recognize that as sexual assault when a transphobic man does it, but if a trans woman suggested doing something like that to another woman, you’d call her a rapist and demand she be drawn and quartered.
It's amazing how much you've decided you know about me on the basis of one bleet. I am mainly a legal pedant. It's an assault, not necessarily sexual. It's possibly Offences against the Person Act, not Sexual Offences Act 2003.
Pedantry is useless right now.
How is explicitly and intentionally hitting people’s genitalia not sexual assault?
There is no sexual intent. I think you could argue that under SOA2003 touching of certain private parts is legally held to be inherently sexual, but I doubt very much whether the Crown Prosecution Service would prosecute this as sexual.
Are you saying that if we have a fight, and you have balls, and I kick you in the balls, that's in some way sexual?
If you punch me in the boobs that's battery or abh, if you stroke or squeeze them arguably sexual assault. See?
He didn’t say that. He told people to walk into women’s bathroom and punch any women he thinks might be trans in the genitals. If someone walked into a bathroom and punched you in the genitals, I would absolutely consider that sexual assault. And you would agree with me if the assaulted was trans
If he was allegedly making these comments about race, Jewish people or women would you be holding this discussion or quite so sanguine, or do protections only apply to a hierarchy of groups ?
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Yes, he's an extremist. Read his tweets in the context of a huge rise in harassment and abuse of trans people - which he has personally directly engaged in, to the point of breaking a trans teenager's phone. He's not joking around; he's trying to use that as cover. bsky.app/profile/phil...
He is a fucking bigot and a far right extremist
it becomes incitement when it is actively encouraging violence absolutist free speech is a nonsensical reactionary stance
I'm not 100% sure about him being an extremist. What I am certain about is that he's the stunt double for the elephant man
He skipped his son's birthday party to yell about trans people on the internet, and later cyberstalked a 17 year old. I think extremist is a safe bet.
But he's a white middle class cis-het man so he gets a free pass.
His family abandoned him because of his psychotic fixation on other people’s genitals. He’s currently on trial for encouraging violence against literal children. If you’re “not 100% sure he’s an extremist” then it’s because you either aren’t aware of his actions or you agree with them.
I'm not aware, I've got more important stuff in my life to be bothered by a no mark
So you’re just sharing your uninformed opinion on a topic you don’t understand then, gotcha. Thanks for chiming in to let us know you have no idea what you’re talking about.
I was making a comment on how he resembles the elephant man. It's not my fault you've had a sense of humour bypass, you boring cunt
Correction, he’s currently on trial for *physically assaulting* a literal child, encouraging violence against children was a separate thing.
Yes, he's an extremist. Anymore dumb questions?
When a man who’s up in court for hate crime and violent assault tomorrow calls on his followers to also commit violent assault against members of the same protected minority, that’s a police matter.
He also cyberstalked and doxed a 17 year old.
I'm probably not the one in a position to make that judgement, but I do strongly believe the same standard should be applied when it is trans people being targeted as if it were any other marginalised group
Much like Andrew Bridgen, he's lost his mind, and he appears to be slowly morphing into him too.
Linehan is dangerous. He thinks he has a right to verbally and physically abuse anyone who he thinks is trans, or who supports trans people. There's a reason that his former friends and colleagues won't go anywhere near him.
Yes, hth
Yes, he is!
One more thing, not one of you is fit to speak of survivors and appropriate rape the way you have done here, so as to protect an abusive white cis man. How fucking dare you use us as pawns in your game. Cisgender heterosexual white men are the threat to women, as are the women who protect them.
Your transphobia, like Linehan's, is rooted in misogyny. You should have a look at that, and do better.
If he had written what he wrote about a cis woman, you would be rightfully appalled. He's inciting violence. You know that. Call yourselves journalists? PS I'm a cis woman, and I'm not the only cis woman he has been abusive to online. I see you defending him.
Let's be blunt here. He WAS inciting violence against cis women as well as trans women. These idiots decided Daniel Radcliffe's wife was trans when she was visibly pregnant. Scum like Linehan and his followers just want an excuse to beat up women.
These idiots thought JKR was trans.
It becomes incitement to violence when you encourage specific violent actions, for example the use of the phrase "punch them in the balls". Seems pretty straightforward this one - almost as if your apparent confusion were hiding some kind of agenda.
He's literally in court today because of his abuse and criminal damage towards a trans woman, you utter dorks. Of course he's an extremist. Stop running cover for transphobia
When you suggest punching people in the genitals perhaps?
That would be when he incites violence. Glad I could clear that up for you.
Of course he is you useless muppets. He is on trial today for actual harassment and violence. He's been vile, abusive and threatening for years now.
Yes, he is an extremist.
If I said "If you see a writer for The News Agents in the bathroom, punch them in the balls", and I had an audience of thousands to say this to, you'd probably take offense to that. If it's against an already regularly assaulted minority under threat, that's just "muh freeze peach" though.
HE LITERALLY IS IN COURT FOR STALKING AND HARASSING A TRANS WOMAN WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN
Your article headline's akin to someone saying "haven't the police got anything better to do with their time". Whilst they've *other* crime to investigate, inciting people to assault vulnerable innocent citizens due to their gender or sexuality is a serious crime which equally must be investigated.
Be honest in your headline writing for a change. He explicitly said that people should physically assault trans women. Yes, that is incitement of violence, and yes, he is a fucking extremist. Is journalistic integrity dead or what?
Also notice the cute euphemism 'Hard Right' instead of 'Far Right'.
“But the hardest question is where does language become incitement to violence?" I don't know, maybe when you instruct your followers to violently assault people.
The man has spent about a decade harassing trans people and anyone who supports us. A call for us to be assaulted is not a 'joke', and any attempt at deniability disappears when he repeated, while being arrested, that people should be free to assault us.
He constantly publicly encourages all manner of violence against trans people. So yes, he is an insane, sadistic, and violent extremist inciting all manner of evils against us.
That entire headline speaks to how normalised it is to abuse trans people. That you think persistent bullying, harassment, and calls for beating up trans people on sight is merely a "free speech issue" says it all.
Being rude and offensive is revolting but not a crime. However, this man made a clear call to incite harm to a minor. That is a hate crime against someone who is additionally 1. Under aged 2. From marginalised community. It doesn't get more criminal nor aggravated.
Your country is a signatory to the universal declaration of human rights. What have you become, even asking whether this man should be held to account for his human rights abuses? He is calling for others to harm and bully a human child. Are trans lives not human enough to you?? 😱
Yes
Pretty sure it became incitement to violence when he basically said "I intend to do violence, and I call on you to also do violence". Seems pretty clear.
You people are scum, btw. But if what Linehan said isn't violence, I'm guessing it's now OK to punch Jon Sopel in the balls next time I see him? Or at least instruct some absolute maniacs to do it on my behalf?
Yes. Next question.
Yes, he is an extremist. And language becomes incitement to violence when he calls for people to be violent towards others on the basic of their perceived identity. Why is this so hard for you to understand?
When does it become incitement to violence? When you advocate physically assaulting people, obviously. Which is what he's done.
yes, he is an extremist. literally anyone who's paid even a little attention could tell you that.
He told people to 'punch trans women in the balls'. If that's not an incitement to violence, then what is?
Also, it's good to know that until all rapes are solved, no other crimes should be cause for an arrest. Off to rob my local bank now.
Yeah. It says a LOT about the journalists that they found this brainfart to be so profound they used it as headline.
Yes The answer is yes
At that point, why convict any crime that doesn't result in death or mutilation? What a stupid question to ask
It becomes an incitement to violence when you say to "punch someone in the balls" as he said quoted word for word exactly from what he stated.
Organisations like you aren't displaying the tweet in question because otherwise most people would say "yes".
He's the Nick Clegg of the culture wars; not the main one, still wants your attention and chippy as fuck.
He's also in on trial for attacking a child. Funny how the media turn a blind eye to that.
TERF logic. Children cannot transition, so anyone that transitions is legally not a child. Unless they detransitioned. Then they are a vulnerable child.
"Anti-trans activists" do not exist. They are Nazis. This is not up for debate.
I think language becomes incitement to violence when he starts talking about how all trans people are pedophilic groomers that deserve to be kicked in the balls the moment their presence makes people uncomfortable.
"but when does language become incitement to violence?" Around the time you tell people to punch anyone they suspect of being a trans woman in a toilet, I'd have thought. But then you know this which makes me wonder why you are framing it as you are.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/w...
When does it become incitement to violence? When he tells people to punch other people, maybe? Or when he harasses trans people? Did you even discuss what he is in court for today? You don’t think they are linked? What a joke of a podcast.
It's almost like threats of violence towards specific people is is also a crime. The headline is so stupid. Should police officers stop pulling you over for running red lights because cold cases exist? Are you really that stupid?
If a centrist journo is in a public space, they are committing a violent, abusive act...
Graham Linehan is British. 🇬🇧💷
When its inciting violence you dumb fucks.
It's encitement to violence against a protected minority. He has referred to Trans ppl as Paedophiles & those who support them are groomers. The argument that trans want to hang out in the toilet & r*pe ppl is false, r*pists are better treated than the trans community, ask them.
Oh, this is an easy one. When a trans person makes a threat resembling what the squalid Linehan wrote, then they're a "violent activist." But if you hate trans people, you can be as nasty as you like, according to the British media.
when does language become incitement to violence? i'd say it's when the language that you use intentionally incites violence.
And the mad rush of commentators trying to justify that he SHOULD be able to call for trans people to be punched (not even that it's a joke), isn't going to help his defence any should he be charged. Shame.
yeah it's a weird one because i think in a lot of these cases if they just said "oh i got carried away" or "it was a joke but reading it back yeah i guess i crossed a line" they'd probably get a slap on the wrist but people wanna be a martyr, but still get to enjoy the glory of it.
Hi. If folk were tweeting the same things about you as individuals, what would your response be, debate the language or use the law? In the context of the abuse of “free speech” to punch down, including on the press, why do you believe that the oppressor should be privileged?
He called for assualts on women he suspects are trans women. Everyone knows Matlis is an unhinged terf but is she really so unhinged as to condone calls for violence against other women? Rhetorical,of course she is,she's a terf. Ironic,coz she's far clockier than me..
Maybe the line is when language incites violence? Like when he used language to tell people to commit violence. Maybe that?
They violated John Gotti's First Amendment rights when they prosecuted him for merely suggesting to Sammy "The Bull" Gravano that he bump off Paul Castellano.
When does language become incitement to violence? Oh I don't know, maybe hypothetically when he unequivocally tells all of his followers to physically assault trans people in the toilets if they see them. Oh look, that's precisely what he got arrested for. Next question?
Especially when it's coming from someone who previously was cyberstalking a 17 year old and openly trying to recruit people to help him with it. This incident did not occur in a vacuum and I'm confident that previous incident is related to how they examined this one this one.
Is there a prima facie case that Linehan's tweet was incitement? Yes. He may use hyperbole as a defence in court, that's for the judge to decide. Was it a bad use of police time? No. These were airport police, not beat bobbies, they weren't doing anything else at the time. (1/2)
Was it over the top to make it such a high profile arrest? Probably, it could have been done after disembarkation without creating such a fuss and risk of backlash. Is it a problem when journalists refer to incitement of violence against trans people as "rude"? Absofuckinglutely it is. (2/2)
Yes. Calling for people to beat up a minority is both incitement to violence and a hate crime. It is chilling how comfortable our press and politicians are with that.
“When does language become incitement to violence?” Probably when you tell people they should do violent things
why equivocate over someone quite plainly advocating for violence against a minority, you fucking cowards
It becomes incitement to violence when his words invite violence. I mean, come on here.
This whole "Can anyone even know what violence is??" takes are idiotic. Stop.
"[...] has a long history of offensive, rude and personal tweets [...]" Oh, of course, then he should clearly be immune from prosecution! I mean, if he does this all the time then it becomes legal, right? That's how it works?
When does telling other people to commit assault become an incitement to violence? Who are we expert journalists to say?
I think the fact that he was already in legal trouble for cyberstalking a 17 year old is related to why they acted on him tweeting out incitement.
“He said ‘go away groomer’, ‘go away you disgusting incel’. He called her a ‘sissy porn-watching scumbag’ … He deliberately whacked the phone out of Ms Brooks’s hand.” Sorry, you think you should be able to do this to a teenager? What the hell is wrong with you?
I see the News Agents have forgotten their high ideals for the clickbait of the gutter press. Close the door on the way out.
He's on trial currently for.... violence. I think it's pretty obvious he meant it. You don't need a long chin-scratching debate to understand this.
Well, I’m not a legal expert but when he talks about encouraging people to punch the minority he hates after years of calling them perverts and weirdos, I’d say probably then.
Will you do a podcast on Linehan being in court today on charges of harassing a child?
Narrator's Voice: they did not
*harassing and then attacking her
You think it's a joke because that's what trans people are to you. We see you.
Turns out Jon Sopel is mates with Tim Allan the former board member of the hate group Sex Matters. They even recently spent the weekend together. youtu.be/vwesj_mQtcg?...
So when they say radical, they mean racist? That explains their smearing Corbyn I suppose.
Media and politics is just one big blob isn't it?
Also this bsky.app/profile/mind...
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If you’re finding yourself aligning with Vance and Trump, you need to do a double take. No-one can think straight when you put trans people in the mix. Suddenly you find yourself defending bigots, because transphobia has become SO NORMALISED.
Exactly, once society puts a scale of acceptability on bigotry and racism the battle is lost.
It's highly reasonable to assume that the persons who wrote this framing protect domestic abusers or rapists, are domestic abusers or rapists, or both.
Yes he’s an extremist. Anyone who’s aware if his online activity will tell you that. There’s no debate, he’s a business, he harasses, he libels and he likes to encourage his followers to doxx.
He’s a bully, not a business. God my typos, 🤣
Yes, he is an extremist. And the post he was arrested for wasn’t merely rude or offensive. He encouraged people to sexually assault women in public bathrooms while he himself is currently involved in a court case in which he is credibly accused of assaulting a minor.
yes he's an extremist, though I recognise it may be hard for you to accept given so much of our media and political landscape agrees with his violent extremism
"when does language become incitement to violence?" He told people to punch us. Under what circumstances would that not be inciting violence? This isn't complex, you divvies. Just say you think people should be allowed to incite violence against trans women.
As to "extremism", this is who Linehan chose to promote on the day he was in court for allegedly harassing a teenager. bsky.app/profile/dams...
I don't particularly care one way or the other if Linehan is charged over this and I don't expect the police to solve transphobia, but the ongoing omerta among the media class around the kind of vile bigotry you keep making excuses for is sickening.
I just thought they couldn’t see the bigotry and aggression of GCs before - but it’s clear now that they just don’t care.
He’s a psychotic obsessive, not an “activist.” Know how you can tell the difference? An activist’s wife and children don’t abandon him because he started caring more about other people’s genitalia than his own family.
Yes. Of course he's an extremist. His wife left him. His career tanked. He publicly and repeatedly harassess and abuses people he disagrees with. He is currently in court for harassing and assaulting a teenager. What is wrong with you? Why are you framing it like this unless you agree with him?
He is an extremist. Nuff said.
Philosopher of Language here! When you explicitly recommend that people commit violence, it becomes incitement to violence. Happy to clear that up.
At the point where he advised and advocated assaulting people on sight. Which he did, and yes, he's an extremist. Hope this helps, not sure why it's in question.
Respectfully, if the summary highlights the best moments of the podcast then this is adding fuck all to the conversation. How about asking someone with legal knowledge of the charge? How about not suggesting that police stationed at Heathrow should be out solving shoplifting?
'is he an extremist?' idk. it's so hard to tell. bsky.app/profile/sloa...
'when does the language become incitement to violence?' pretty much every time he sends one of us a death threat or calls for our eradication. or, y'know, when he tells his 500k followers to violent assault anyone they think 'looks a bit like a tranny'.
Could you please elaborate on your insinuation that the Police are ignoring serious crimes to arrest this man? Are you implying the Police can't do two things at once? That any and all 'minor' crimes in your eyes, should be ignored and allowed? If I looked through your articles, how many do you...
...think I would find calling for police action against 'minor crimes' comitted by certain demographics that you disagree with? Why would you want to take Police officers away from rape cases just to address the dangers of E-Bikes, Immigrants or whatever headline you're chasing?
he's quite obviously an extremist
"why are we worrying about incitement to violence if it's only violence against tr*nnies?"
When you explicitly incite violence. Have you considered giving your writers some remedial literacy classes?
Since he's in court today, he is accused of the assault of a trans woman as well as criminal damage (to her phone). Since he called on his followers to attack @sophiemolly.co.uk which led to people following her around when she went for her bra fitting.
*trans child
Yes, my bad
Since he has waged a campaign of intemadation, against trans people for years. Which has led to him being sue'd repetedly. Since he is a holocause revisionist. Since his wife left him because of his obsesion about trans people.
Since his ex-friends will no longer talk to him because of his obsession with trans people. Yeah, yeah, I'd say he a bit of an extreamist, wouldn't you But hay I guess you won't bother having any trans people on there to talk about the this, why rock the boat
I think people should joke about hurting you, preferably with your address included.
I mean, of course he is an extremist. His views are extreme and the way he pursues them at the expense of his career, his family and his close friends is extreme. Explicitly instructing people to commit violence is incitement to violence. And is extremist.
Your article says this. As if it’s representative. Is it true though? How many trans people did you ask? Graham Linehan himself campaigned for and supported the eventual arrest of someone who said “punch a TERF”. Why not cover his hypocrisy?
Linehan denies the existence of trans people. He sees support for trans rights as a literal child abuse conspiracy. That’s how he lost his agent - by groundlessly accusing David Tennant (same agent) of involvement in child sex abuse. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article... This is extremist.
I like your podcast but actually think you should apologise for this post.
When a tweet literally tells their audience to violently assault people in bathrooms?
He's in court for assaulting a child and has a long history of doxxing people and inciting violent acts. He's basically a different flavour of Tommy Robinson and belongs in the gulag
Yes
How about this bsky.app/profile/alan...
bsky.app/profile/sloa... how about when he calls for us to be destroyed calls us child abusers. Wishes us dead.
metro.co.uk/2023/05/25/i... How about incitement of violence causing this… that enough for you
When he’s already been charged of harassment and criminal damage towards a trans child and is due in Court on those charges today how about then. It’s not just words or empty threats he’s already physically being charged for real world actions against a child
I think anyone who has paid attention to him even casually these last few years would say he is an extremist. The man is not subtle and is fucking obsessed with trans people. His hatred has consumed him and it ruined his life.
Yes he is an extremist, a nasty obsessive who is on trial for harassment and assault of a 17 year old girl.
What a completely irrelevant point, lol. He was arrested when he re-entered the country, because that was the first good opportunity to arrest him. Otherwise, the police might have waited on it a few weeks or they might not have, who cares.
He's absolutely the sort of dipshit who the phrase "don't give them the oxygen of publicity" was created for. And at the same time, saying that believing that someone is existing in a space you don't think they should be in makes violence towards them acceptable...
If it's done persistently there should probably be a police caution; and then after repeated offences it should be treated as a hate crime. You couldn't call for violence against people based on their skin colour. You shouldn't be able to do it based on your perception of their gender. Seems right.
Calling for violence against a marginalized and unarmed populous is usually considered extremist, yes.
His entire life is spent viciously targeting one minority group. Threatening to "punch" someone for their race or religion would not be acceptable so why do you consider it acceptable to attack trans people??
Yes.
THe man is so far down that rabbit hole of hatred, fucking JK Rowling has distanced herself from him. If you're worse than JK Rowling on trans people, *you're pretty fucking bad*.
He's an extremist you morons.
Ooh - asking the tough questions. Perhaps when you’re suggesting people should be violent?
Because he broke his bail conditions? Might want to start looking at the various Palestine protestors subject to virtual house arrest because of bail conditions...
When it meets the definition of inciting violence in the Public Order Act 1986. Happy to help.
You would think a journalist would be capable of doing research
Propagandists posing as journalists however...
Fine cut of a lad so he is.
Hope the fucker chokes on his own hatred
This is embarrassingly stupid and fascistic propaganda. Congratulations.
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