It’s not exactly surprising that the architect of the Reign of Terror, Maximilien Robespierre, fell to the very guillotine which he had made such a gory symbol of his regime. Revolutions have a way of eating their own like that. The ‘rainbow’ revolution of Wokeness is no different, except that its victims are despatched by the Tweet rather than the blade. Time after time, virtue-signalling wokesters find that you can never be woke enough for today’s left.
Still, it is most gratifying to watch woke-central, the Guardian, become the latest victim of its own inquisition.
Guardian Australia staff are shying away from saying if they are among hundreds of employees who signed a confidential letter sent to management protesting against the British-based newspaper’s “pattern of publishing transphobic content”.
BuzzFeed news UK reported on Saturday that it had obtained a copy of the letter that 338 staff from across the newspaper’s operations in Britain, the US and Australia, had signed.
The report claimed signatories among them were senior editorial staff and writers who would be considered household names.
Guardian Australia editor Lenore Taylor declined to comment and referred questions to the media group’s communications director in Britain. Other staff contacted also declined to comment.
“Household names”, perhaps, if you live in the sort of household where mung beans and penis-tucking are the rule. Most sensible people would struggle to recall that, for instance, Lenore Taylor was formerly chief political correspondent of the Dominion-Post’s stablemate, the Sydney Morning Herald.
Still, what was this horrific “transphobic” content the Grauniad has been running? Are they advocating the lynching of men in women’s clothing, perhaps? Tarring and feathering bearded ladies?
The letter was reportedly organised in response to a column by British columnist Suzanne Moore that has been widely condemned as transphobic and was allegedly a reason contributing to the resignation of a transgender Guardian UK employee earlier last week.
The column, published on Monday, argued that biological sex was a material fact, and that the oppression of women was “innately connected” to their biological reality. “You either protect women’s rights as sex-based or you don’t protect them at all,” Moore wrote.
Dear Gaia. The horror. Arguing that scientific facts are facts? Those monsters.
Guardian readers weren’t able to come out of their blanket forts for a week.
The signatories claimed the resignation of their colleague “deeply distressed” them. “We are also disappointed in the Guardian’s repeated decision to publish anti-trans views,” the letter, which was published on BuzzFeed, read. “The pattern of publishing transphobic content has interfered with our work and cemented our reputation as a publication hostile to trans rights and trans employees.”
Still, the Guardian hasn’t learned its lesson. It’s still gamely trying to appease the unhinged loonies of “rainbow” progressivism.
A Guardian in Britain said on Sunday night: “We have put much work into diversity and inclusion in the last two years”.
theaustralian.com.au/business/media/guardian-staff-blast-suzanne-moores-antitrans-column/
And now they’re reaping the whirlwind. Pass me the popcorn: like a fight between two brain-damaged monkeys, this can only get funnier.
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