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Several years ago, I spent a significant amount of time in East Africa, researching the involvement of local Christian denominations in politics. While in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, I learned that China was engaged in significant infrastructure building, including a major roads project that locals referenced with a nickname that I could never quite make out: they were either calling it “the Confucian Road” or “the Confusion Road.” Both labels accurately apply to the impact of China’s growing presence in Africa, not only for the African nations, but also for China itself.
Much has been made of the influx of Chinese money and workers into Africa over the past two decades, as China has become the primary economic partner for the continent. Both the China Africa Research Initiative (CARI) at Johns Hopkins University and the consulting firm McKinsey & Company have compiled the numbers — and they’re staggering. China-Africa trade reached a high of $215 billion in 2014; $143 billion in Chinese loans have poured in to Africa between 2000 and 2017, and annual inflows of foreign direct investment have exceeded $3 billion in recent years.
McKinsey says there are around 10,000 Chinese-owned firms operating in Africa. CARI’s data shows over 227,000 Chinese workers in Africa as of 2016, though others say the number is nearer 1 million.
Much of the commentary on this relationship has focused on whether this is good for Africa; cash infusion and needed infrastructure development versus the danger of long-term debt and Chinese neocolonialism. Equally important, though largely overlooked, are the impacts that this growing relationship will have on China. The intention is to import much-needed natural resources for China’s huge economy, but this link is also causing China to import something that it has been trying to eliminate at home: religion, and particularly Evangelical Christianity.
From the days of Confucius until now, Chinese governments have been consistently focused on social order, and the Chinese Communist Party is downright obsessed with maintaining stability. This October, the CCP will celebrate 70 years in power, which may seem like a long time, but China measures its history in millennia. The CCP also remembers the Soviets celebrating 70 years of Communism — they did not make it to 75.
The immediate worry for the CCP has been economic stability. After Mao Zedong’s death in 1976, his successors abandoned ideological purity in favor of economic reform, enacting a hybrid system of state enterprise and capitalism that has achieved phenomenal economic growth and lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty.
The CCP has replaced a legitimacy based on Mao’s charisma with one based on performance, and points to double-digit economic growth as its justification for staying in power. In recent years, however, the Chinese economy has slowed down, and increasing economic ties to Africa is part of a global strategy to jumpstart another round of remarkable growth.
Hundreds of thousands of Chinese citizens have gone to work in Africa, where they have encountered foreign cultures that leave many of them feeling alienated. For some of these disaffected Chinese workers, a source of comfort has come from religion, most notably the Evangelical Christianity that pervades much of sub-Saharan Africa. Evangelicalism prioritises conversion of non-believers, and the Chinese, heavily discouraged from practicing religion at home, are attractive potential converts.
Many local African churches have reached out to Chinese workers, including incorporating Mandarin into services. A number of Chinese, in turn, have welcomed the sense of community and belonging that these Christian churches offer. And a small but growing number of ethnically Chinese missionaries from Taiwan and other countries are specifically targeting Chinese nationals in Africa, preaching to them with a freedom they’d never be allowed in the People’s Republic.
Many of these Chinese workers are returning home, and they’re bringing their newfound religion with them. Visitors to the coastal province of Fujian, for example, now hear South African accented English and see houses adorned with crosses. African migrants are also moving to China in larger numbers, many of them practitioners of very evangelistic forms of Pentecostal Christianity who are willing to flout the rules placed on religious activity in China.
This new dynamic is creating a headache for the Communist Party, which heavily regulates state-recognised religious bodies and considers non-sanctioned religious activity illegal. The CCP has always been anti-religion, but after Xi Jinping assumed Party control in 2012, China enacted a level of religious persecution not seen since Mao attempted to eliminate religion and other sources of dissent during the bloody Cultural Revolution.
Under President Xi, Chinese officials have literally exploded churches, arrested entire Christian congregations, forcibly removed images of the Dalai Lama from Tibetan Buddhists’ homes, and detained up to one million Muslims from the minority Uighur ethnic group in ‘reeducation’ camps.
This repressive approach is largely a reaction to intense growth among virtually every major religious group in China. International observers, including the NGO Freedom House and the US State Department, estimate that between a quarter and half of the Chinese population now believes in one religious tradition or another, and the CCP fears any large group of organised and ideologically motivated citizens who could challenge the Party.
Twenty years ago, the CCP faced just such a challenge from the Falun Gong movement, a spiritual philosophy of meditation and exercise reminiscent of tai chi or even yoga. When thousands of members of the Falun Gong movement assembled in Beijing in 1999 to demand the government stop harassing its members, the CCP responded with a crackdown that detained hundreds of thousands of people and which continues to the present day. Nonetheless, Falun Gong maintains a growing membership of millions of followers in China.
Falun Gong, though, is a small problem for the CCP compared to Christianity, which has several times as many adherents in China, and has much older and deeper international connections. Under Xi, state-sanctioned Christian churches have had their services restricted and the content of their public messages heavily censored, while unofficial “house churches” have increasingly been subject to police raids and demolitions.
And yet, to the dismay and confusion of the CCP, Christianity keeps growing; many Christians take persecution as a sign that they are doing something right. If US State Department numbers are to be believed, there are nearly as many Chinese Christians (70 million) as the 90 million CCP members reported by Chinese state media, and at current growth rates, China will soon have more Christians than any country in the world. Despite its best efforts, China is losing its fight against Christianity, and the growing influx of citizens returning from Africa is shaping up to be another hopeless front in that war.
The CCP may be risk-averse, but it is also practical; one need only look at its adoption of economic reforms post-Mao to see the Party willing to bend principles in the name of survival. Last year, President Xi pledged a new package of $60 billion worth of loans, aid and investment for Africa, showing that China’s economic interests in Africa have not changed. Facing the reality of the continued Chinese presence in Africa, the growth of Chinese Christianity through conversion abroad, as well as other international pressures from sources like the Vatican, has forced the CCP to modify its repression-heavy strategy concerning Christianity.
Moving from repression to accommodation would not be without precedent. The CCP has already embraced and rebranded Confucianism and Taoism as cultural expressions, stripping the official versions of these traditions of their more “religious” elements. The Party has even taken the extraordinary step of putting a government-chosen candidate in the position of Panchen Lama, the second most important role in Tibetan Buddhism.
And just last year, the Chinese government and the Vatican concluded an agreement by which it will allow a state-sanctioned merger of the official and underground branches of the Chinese Catholic Church (each of which holds about half of China’s seven million Catholics as members), in exchange for the Government having a say in the future election of bishops.
Might the CCP find a way to accommodate Evangelicals and other Protestant Christians (the largest branch of Christianity in China), whose growing ranks will only swell further with the influx of now Christian Chinese coming back from Africa?
China has been compared to ancient Rome, which saw its persecution of Christians give way to Christianity, eventually subsuming and outlasting the empire. If the CCP has its choice, it might instead go the route of 17th century England, which allowed its dissident Christians to emigrate and serve as colonial emissaries while practicing their religion far away from home.
The CCP could conceivably adopt a two-pronged strategy relating to Evangelicals and other Protestant Christians: relax repression, which could satisfy the majority of underground Christians who merely want to be able to worship without harassment, and allow the most fervent Chinese Evangelicals, who want to evangelise someone, to carry out their mission in Africa instead of China.
The CCP could use the presence of this latter group abroad to strengthen economic ties, institutionalising strategies already adopted by some Chinese businesspeople in Africa who have recognised the strategic benefits of adopting Christianity as a useful way to gain social capital and tap into local networks that can open the doors to further economic opportunities.
While this may not be a permanent solution for either Evangelicals or the CCP, such an arrangement could create breathing room to figure out a long-term resolution, – and turn the current situation into a rare win-win for Christians and Communists alike.
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SubscribeExcellent article (as ever), Joan. It is astonishing that some people – even MPs – seem able to at least tacitly condone incitement to violence when the targets are women. Today I’ve also been told that the target is not women, but ‘TERFS’. So perhaps we cease being women when we express our disquiet about the impact of gender identity ideology.
I’m sure all those who don’t condemn him in the strongest possible terms would condemn in the strongest possible terms anyone who stood in front of a cheering crowd in central London and incited them to punch men in dresses in the f*cking face.
“When did feminists bang on windows and let off smoke bombs to disrupt peaceful meetings?”
Not scoring points but I suggest you check the history of the suffragette movement, but presumably their violence was justified because their cause was just.
Most radical movements have the problem of a lunatic fringe. The big difference between suffragists and trans extremists is that the former had a very reasonable cause for half the population of their country and the world. (That doesn’t make any of their more extreme actions necessarily acceptable.) The trans lobby’s freedom fighters are just self-centred, self-important and thoroughly immature ideologues.
Most radical movements have the problem of a lunatic fringe. The big difference between suffragists and trans extremists is that the former had a very reasonable cause for half the population of their country and the world. (That doesn’t make any of their more extreme actions necessarily acceptable.) The trans lobby’s freedom fighters are just self-centred, self-important and thoroughly immature ideologues.
“When did feminists bang on windows and let off smoke bombs to disrupt peaceful meetings?”
Not scoring points but I suggest you check the history of the suffragette movement, but presumably their violence was justified because their cause was just.
You are exactly right Alice and anyway many police forces do not act because those at the top have some sexual deviancy issues of their own maybe , rainbows on helmets , etc . Millions of people are angry at what they see . Are some police officers in charge devoid of any awareness at what is going on around them ?
You can’t use the C word, so use the T word. The rage against women, especially older, and so less tractable, ones is palpable
Yes, this little essay hits all right the nails so squarely on the head, we’re spared the need even to comment.
And they accuse us of ‘transphobia’ when we quite rightly take their terrorist threats seriously? Which is what one is SUPPOSED to do. It’s time to go back to banning all male bodied, all male born bodies out of women’s spaces, and if they are so terrified of their brothers, then they can do what women did and set up their own spaces.
I’m sure all those who don’t condemn him in the strongest possible terms would condemn in the strongest possible terms anyone who stood in front of a cheering crowd in central London and incited them to punch men in dresses in the f*cking face.
You are exactly right Alice and anyway many police forces do not act because those at the top have some sexual deviancy issues of their own maybe , rainbows on helmets , etc . Millions of people are angry at what they see . Are some police officers in charge devoid of any awareness at what is going on around them ?
You can’t use the C word, so use the T word. The rage against women, especially older, and so less tractable, ones is palpable
Yes, this little essay hits all right the nails so squarely on the head, we’re spared the need even to comment.
And they accuse us of ‘transphobia’ when we quite rightly take their terrorist threats seriously? Which is what one is SUPPOSED to do. It’s time to go back to banning all male bodied, all male born bodies out of women’s spaces, and if they are so terrified of their brothers, then they can do what women did and set up their own spaces.
Excellent article (as ever), Joan. It is astonishing that some people – even MPs – seem able to at least tacitly condone incitement to violence when the targets are women. Today I’ve also been told that the target is not women, but ‘TERFS’. So perhaps we cease being women when we express our disquiet about the impact of gender identity ideology.
I’m not a lawyer, but isn’t inciting violence a criminal offence?
Yes but many of our police forces , not all, no longer police . I wonder how many activists of one kind or another are taking a salary from a police force under false pretences ?
I read today that the vile bloke has been charged after all.
Seems plod has finally found their cojones.
I read today that the vile bloke has been charged after all.
Seems plod has finally found their cojones.
Yes, but I think prosecutors have to prove that the inciting person believed that violence could or would ensue. Not a “reasonable person” but the inciter themselves. More subjectivity in law.
I’m fairly sure that if the situation were reversed, and a feminist with a bullhorn was exhorting a crowd to “punch a tranny if you see one”, the police would come down on her like a ton of bricks.
Bakers “previous” puts him ‘in-the-frame. He surely should have been recalled if he is out on licence. Arresting him at the scene might have caused a riot but they must know his address and could have picked him up later.
Since there have been so many ACTUAL cases of attacks on women by trans, it is more than a credible threat of violence, it’s basically going to happen even more, because the cult leaders are calling to burn the heretic witches at the stake. This was not ‘venting anger’ it was a call to action. And this is why women don’t want trans in our spaces, let alone all men because now women’s spaces are ‘unisex’ and all males can enter. We are being groomed, to tolerate male occupation of our bodies and our spaces, we have no safe havens from male violence
I’m fairly sure that if the situation were reversed, and a feminist with a bullhorn was exhorting a crowd to “punch a tranny if you see one”, the police would come down on her like a ton of bricks.
Bakers “previous” puts him ‘in-the-frame. He surely should have been recalled if he is out on licence. Arresting him at the scene might have caused a riot but they must know his address and could have picked him up later.
Since there have been so many ACTUAL cases of attacks on women by trans, it is more than a credible threat of violence, it’s basically going to happen even more, because the cult leaders are calling to burn the heretic witches at the stake. This was not ‘venting anger’ it was a call to action. And this is why women don’t want trans in our spaces, let alone all men because now women’s spaces are ‘unisex’ and all males can enter. We are being groomed, to tolerate male occupation of our bodies and our spaces, we have no safe havens from male violence
Here in the US it is, and in every state, I believe.
Yes but many of our police forces , not all, no longer police . I wonder how many activists of one kind or another are taking a salary from a police force under false pretences ?
Yes, but I think prosecutors have to prove that the inciting person believed that violence could or would ensue. Not a “reasonable person” but the inciter themselves. More subjectivity in law.
Here in the US it is, and in every state, I believe.
I’m not a lawyer, but isn’t inciting violence a criminal offence?
Why on earth would any organisation want someone like Baker to be a spokesperson?
His attitude is pure mysonginy.
Agreed – though the trans ideology itself is pure misogyny so, I guess he’s a good front man! He did a post prison podcast, following his 30 year stint..
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZHXUXgnjQnI&feature=share8
Thanks. An instructive interview indeed — repellant, too.
No problem – he campaigns for men in women’s prisons too, obviously.. https://youtube.com/@sarahjanebaker2?feature=share8
No problem – he campaigns for men in women’s prisons too, obviously.. https://youtube.com/@sarahjanebaker2?feature=share8
Thanks. An instructive interview indeed — repellant, too.
I am sure most ordinary trans people are absolutely horrified at what is being said and done in their name. However when all this finally blows up in the trans lobby’s face, it will be the ordinary trans people who suffer the consequences.
The trans lobby need somehow to get control over their monsters like “Sarah Jane”. Would you want him sharing a communal changing room with your wife and young children?
I don’t think so. Trans-ness is a position one can almost exclusively come to only through political indoctrination. That is, the idea that gender is mutable, and traditional roles are a bourgeois construct which can thus be discarded. You have to believe that before you transition. So if the vast majority are coming to this position via political extremism, it stands that the vast majority agree with the extremism of the prominent ‘activists’ which you describe. The mad ones are the norm
The crowd CHEERED at his call to action. Ernst Rohm would have LOVED him. The SA (Soro’s Army) shock troop to terrify the public into compliance.
The crowd CHEERED at his call to action. Ernst Rohm would have LOVED him. The SA (Soro’s Army) shock troop to terrify the public into compliance.
meh. If the ‘good’ trans would treat those attackers as unwanted outsiders, and ban them, but they won’t because those trans are Myrmidons. They are there to terrify women, scare us out of public space, push our boundaries past the breaking point, normalizing predatory and paraphiliac behavior by pornsick men
I don’t think so. Trans-ness is a position one can almost exclusively come to only through political indoctrination. That is, the idea that gender is mutable, and traditional roles are a bourgeois construct which can thus be discarded. You have to believe that before you transition. So if the vast majority are coming to this position via political extremism, it stands that the vast majority agree with the extremism of the prominent ‘activists’ which you describe. The mad ones are the norm
meh. If the ‘good’ trans would treat those attackers as unwanted outsiders, and ban them, but they won’t because those trans are Myrmidons. They are there to terrify women, scare us out of public space, push our boundaries past the breaking point, normalizing predatory and paraphiliac behavior by pornsick men
Obviously, an organization based on misogyny would want him to represent them. He’s a TaterTot in a dress. (my name for AndyTate minions is Tater Tot)
Agreed – though the trans ideology itself is pure misogyny so, I guess he’s a good front man! He did a post prison podcast, following his 30 year stint..
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZHXUXgnjQnI&feature=share8
I am sure most ordinary trans people are absolutely horrified at what is being said and done in their name. However when all this finally blows up in the trans lobby’s face, it will be the ordinary trans people who suffer the consequences.
The trans lobby need somehow to get control over their monsters like “Sarah Jane”. Would you want him sharing a communal changing room with your wife and young children?
Obviously, an organization based on misogyny would want him to represent them. He’s a TaterTot in a dress. (my name for AndyTate minions is Tater Tot)
Why on earth would any organisation want someone like Baker to be a spokesperson?
His attitude is pure mysonginy.
We need at least one piece like this in the media every day. If politicians collude in the lie that women’s opposition to erasure in rights, sport, achievement, privacy, dignity and healthcare in the name of “inclusion” (sick joke) is violent towards trans people, force those politicians to cite evidence or retract their slurs on those who hold up half the sky.
We need at least one piece like this in the media every day. If politicians collude in the lie that women’s opposition to erasure in rights, sport, achievement, privacy, dignity and healthcare in the name of “inclusion” (sick joke) is violent towards trans people, force those politicians to cite evidence or retract their slurs on those who hold up half the sky.
Break the acronym: The LGB community has been high jacked by the toxic, miniscule TQ+ community. All the noise, violence and overreaction is from the TQ+ minority. The LGB community has achieved acceptance into modern society but is being dragged into the mud by their so-called TQ+ cohorts. Separate the acronym and the TQ+ community will become marginalized and ignored.
Hear, hear.
This is exactly what the LGB Alliance have done – and for that Mermaids tried to get their charitable status removed. Fortunately they failed but, as you say, the LGB totally need to separate themselves from the T. LGB people are same sex attracted, trans activists appear to have an issue with this (“embrace the p***s” my ass!). I just feel sorry for the genuine trans people who have been quietly living their lives and want nothing to do with the agressive and mysogynistic trans activists.
Hear, hear.
This is exactly what the LGB Alliance have done – and for that Mermaids tried to get their charitable status removed. Fortunately they failed but, as you say, the LGB totally need to separate themselves from the T. LGB people are same sex attracted, trans activists appear to have an issue with this (“embrace the p***s” my ass!). I just feel sorry for the genuine trans people who have been quietly living their lives and want nothing to do with the agressive and mysogynistic trans activists.
Break the acronym: The LGB community has been high jacked by the toxic, miniscule TQ+ community. All the noise, violence and overreaction is from the TQ+ minority. The LGB community has achieved acceptance into modern society but is being dragged into the mud by their so-called TQ+ cohorts. Separate the acronym and the TQ+ community will become marginalized and ignored.
Inciting violence is a criminal offence, but the CPS will do nothing. It is another case of institutional capture that has happened under a Conservative government.
Too true! The Woke War has been spearheaded by the Tories in the UK.
Women are fair game for abuse by men of both sides. Shulamith Firestone let us know about that decades ago. Marilyn French et al wrote a lot of fiction that discussed the reality of how ‘enlightened’ men are just as big a swine as the conservatives. As someone said, men on the right want women to be private property and men on the left want women to be public property. We seem to have a choice between birthing camps and government brothels. South Park Season 8 Episode 8
Too true! The Woke War has been spearheaded by the Tories in the UK.
Women are fair game for abuse by men of both sides. Shulamith Firestone let us know about that decades ago. Marilyn French et al wrote a lot of fiction that discussed the reality of how ‘enlightened’ men are just as big a swine as the conservatives. As someone said, men on the right want women to be private property and men on the left want women to be public property. We seem to have a choice between birthing camps and government brothels. South Park Season 8 Episode 8
Inciting violence is a criminal offence, but the CPS will do nothing. It is another case of institutional capture that has happened under a Conservative government.
I am in the US, a teacher and mom of an autistic daughter. I worry so much for the safety of my daughter who is so vulnerable. I am losing hope as I see gender ideology take over everything from education to healthcare. I am so sick of the term transwoman. It’s intended to mentally dupe you into thinking of these men as women. But in every way they are men. And they seem to be the most violent, angry men who hate women with a seething vengeance. The kind you would never want in a confined space with you. Is there any hope of reversing this? They just keep gaining power and influence. Our President is completely on their side, as are all the Democrats. I see that you liberals are as well. And I certainly don’t see Donald Trump as the champion coming in to save women. Ugh.
You’re right about the misogyny. They make no attempt to hide it. And a large minority of women cheer them on.
Most women are collaborators who happily side with men against women. Handmaids, PickMes, Mombies, who get their identity from husbands and sons, and have internalized misogyny. Stockholm Syndrome, False Consciousness, etc, most women would rather pimp their daughters and set up their sisters for rape than to stand up for themselves and other women. In short, women are as vile as men, but in different ways. This is why I identify as a misanthrope, I loathe everyone equally.
Most women are collaborators who happily side with men against women. Handmaids, PickMes, Mombies, who get their identity from husbands and sons, and have internalized misogyny. Stockholm Syndrome, False Consciousness, etc, most women would rather pimp their daughters and set up their sisters for rape than to stand up for themselves and other women. In short, women are as vile as men, but in different ways. This is why I identify as a misanthrope, I loathe everyone equally.
Feminists have been mocking chivalry for decades and removing sports such as boxing and rugby from schools. We now have, probably the majority of men unwilling and incapable of fighting to defend women.
There have been no tougher women than that of Sparta. Girls in Sparta were trained in wrestling and athletics.
One woman sent forth her sons, five in number, to war, and, standing in the outskirts of the city, she awaited anxiously the outcome of the battle. And when someone arrived and, in answer to her inquiry, reported that all her sons had met death, she said, p463 “I did not inquire about that, you vile varlet, but how fares our country?” And when he declared that it was victorious, “Then,” she said, “I accept gladly also the death of my sons.”18Plutarch • Sayings of Spartan Women (uchicago.edu)
You’re right about the misogyny. They make no attempt to hide it. And a large minority of women cheer them on.
Feminists have been mocking chivalry for decades and removing sports such as boxing and rugby from schools. We now have, probably the majority of men unwilling and incapable of fighting to defend women.
There have been no tougher women than that of Sparta. Girls in Sparta were trained in wrestling and athletics.
One woman sent forth her sons, five in number, to war, and, standing in the outskirts of the city, she awaited anxiously the outcome of the battle. And when someone arrived and, in answer to her inquiry, reported that all her sons had met death, she said, p463 “I did not inquire about that, you vile varlet, but how fares our country?” And when he declared that it was victorious, “Then,” she said, “I accept gladly also the death of my sons.”18Plutarch • Sayings of Spartan Women (uchicago.edu)
I am in the US, a teacher and mom of an autistic daughter. I worry so much for the safety of my daughter who is so vulnerable. I am losing hope as I see gender ideology take over everything from education to healthcare. I am so sick of the term transwoman. It’s intended to mentally dupe you into thinking of these men as women. But in every way they are men. And they seem to be the most violent, angry men who hate women with a seething vengeance. The kind you would never want in a confined space with you. Is there any hope of reversing this? They just keep gaining power and influence. Our President is completely on their side, as are all the Democrats. I see that you liberals are as well. And I certainly don’t see Donald Trump as the champion coming in to save women. Ugh.
If you (can bear to) look at Pink News, you’ll see images from the parade, with placards comparing gender critical people to Nazis, fascists, etc. Can Labour MP Clive Lewis provide an example of feminists using such language?
Would he and other ‘sympathetic’ Labour MPs, in the name of ‘trans rights’, want Sarah Jane Baker to be in their daughters’ changing rooms?
If you (can bear to) look at Pink News, you’ll see images from the parade, with placards comparing gender critical people to Nazis, fascists, etc. Can Labour MP Clive Lewis provide an example of feminists using such language?
Would he and other ‘sympathetic’ Labour MPs, in the name of ‘trans rights’, want Sarah Jane Baker to be in their daughters’ changing rooms?
No doubt others will correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t recall any trans woman claiming to be a man who also incites violence. Is this actually a testosterone thing?
We also don’t see women who identify as men insisting on entering male changing rooms, male sports teams, male prisons or male hospital wards. I wonder why?
Don’t we?
Why would they enter male sports? Their chances of winning would be reduced.
Don’t we?
Why would they enter male sports? Their chances of winning would be reduced.
Across the pond, there was the school shooting in Tennessee. The perp was a female to male trans individual who wrote a manifesto which, I believe, still hasn’t been published.
OK that’s one! Any others?
The recent shooting in Philadelphia was done by a man claiming to be a woman.
Dana Rivers in Oakland CA. Butchered two lesbians, their son, killed the pets and set the house on fire. There are plenty of archives, try Not Our Crimes, Reduxx, Feminist Current, This Never Happens, and many others.
The recent shooting in Philadelphia was done by a man claiming to be a woman.
Dana Rivers in Oakland CA. Butchered two lesbians, their son, killed the pets and set the house on fire. There are plenty of archives, try Not Our Crimes, Reduxx, Feminist Current, This Never Happens, and many others.
OK that’s one! Any others?
We also don’t see women who identify as men insisting on entering male changing rooms, male sports teams, male prisons or male hospital wards. I wonder why?
Across the pond, there was the school shooting in Tennessee. The perp was a female to male trans individual who wrote a manifesto which, I believe, still hasn’t been published.
No doubt others will correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t recall any trans woman claiming to be a man who also incites violence. Is this actually a testosterone thing?
Men threatening (and committing) violence against women? Shouldn’t (sane, self-respecting) men step up to defend or protect them?
Yes but it would probably end up being us that got arrested for committing a hate crime!
Yes but it would probably end up being us that got arrested for committing a hate crime!
Men threatening (and committing) violence against women? Shouldn’t (sane, self-respecting) men step up to defend or protect them?
Is that a man in a red beret pretending to be a woman ? The violence comes from only one side , these lunatics are out of control but you don’t need me to tell you that ! This trans business is all about mental illness and we do not need a shrink to tell us that , do we now ?
Is that a man in a red beret pretending to be a woman ? The violence comes from only one side , these lunatics are out of control but you don’t need me to tell you that ! This trans business is all about mental illness and we do not need a shrink to tell us that , do we now ?
“The calls for violence only come from one side”. The reason is clear, if you follow simple logic. The claim of the Trans lobby is that trans (i.e. non-binary) people are fighting for “the right to exist”, supported by the notion that if a trans person cannot have all their demands met, then they will commit suicide. Hence, when presented with the proposal that they can have *some* of their demand met, but not all, it is lethal violence.
Quite simply, it’s a hostage crisis. Submit to my demands or people will die. Another expression is domestic terrorism.
The only way to oppose it is to reject the logical premise. No, you can’t have everything you want, and no, we are not giving in to your blackmail.
That’s exactly what it is – a hostage crisis, fuelled by gullible or complicit people. In no other sphere would this be tolerated.
That’s exactly what it is – a hostage crisis, fuelled by gullible or complicit people. In no other sphere would this be tolerated.
“The calls for violence only come from one side”. The reason is clear, if you follow simple logic. The claim of the Trans lobby is that trans (i.e. non-binary) people are fighting for “the right to exist”, supported by the notion that if a trans person cannot have all their demands met, then they will commit suicide. Hence, when presented with the proposal that they can have *some* of their demand met, but not all, it is lethal violence.
Quite simply, it’s a hostage crisis. Submit to my demands or people will die. Another expression is domestic terrorism.
The only way to oppose it is to reject the logical premise. No, you can’t have everything you want, and no, we are not giving in to your blackmail.
A very good article. As someone who has worked in the family/domestic violence field for over 35 years – primarily running and/or supervising what we in Australia call men’s family violence groups – the parallels between the verbal and psychological forms of violence and what is being described in this article (amongst others) is striking. As is the rank hypocrisy we see, not to mention the collusion we see coming from the authorities. A spade needs to be called a spade. The behaviour is violent and thuggish. I have no idea whether any research or anecdotal info exists exploring/highlighting the violence described above and violence being used by the same individuals in domestic/family settings although what we see here is suggestive. One of the interesting/useful areas to look at and work with with the men’s work is power and control – the politics of which lies behind or emerges from a persistent use of violence. The violence being used by these guys and the collusion they are taking advantage of would not be tolerated in the family violence field. It would be called out – big time. Why, I ask rhetorically, are they being allowed to get away with it here?
A very good article. As someone who has worked in the family/domestic violence field for over 35 years – primarily running and/or supervising what we in Australia call men’s family violence groups – the parallels between the verbal and psychological forms of violence and what is being described in this article (amongst others) is striking. As is the rank hypocrisy we see, not to mention the collusion we see coming from the authorities. A spade needs to be called a spade. The behaviour is violent and thuggish. I have no idea whether any research or anecdotal info exists exploring/highlighting the violence described above and violence being used by the same individuals in domestic/family settings although what we see here is suggestive. One of the interesting/useful areas to look at and work with with the men’s work is power and control – the politics of which lies behind or emerges from a persistent use of violence. The violence being used by these guys and the collusion they are taking advantage of would not be tolerated in the family violence field. It would be called out – big time. Why, I ask rhetorically, are they being allowed to get away with it here?
And of course the supporters of these violent, aggressive, abusive men are also from one side only… the Left.
Or what calls itself left-wing nowadays having apparently abandoned working class people and material advancement in favour of identitarian lunacy like this and the deeply anti-working class religion of net zero.
Or what calls itself left-wing nowadays having apparently abandoned working class people and material advancement in favour of identitarian lunacy like this and the deeply anti-working class religion of net zero.
And of course the supporters of these violent, aggressive, abusive men are also from one side only… the Left.
Trans are men and men are much more violent than women !
Trans are men and men are much more violent than women !
“Sarah and many others in our community hold a lot of rage and anger and they have the right to express that anger through their words.”
I’m sorry, but isn’t this a textbook definition of ‘hate crime’?
If I said that I wanted to ‘punch a TIM in the f*king face’, and used the phrase above as a defence, I’d be arrested!
Women hold a lot of rage at male violence and entitlement. Maybe we should have the same right to express our rage at being told to ‘be kind’ to paraphiliacs, predators, and men who call for punching us in the face, burning us at the stake, and more. But if we say a man can’t be a woman, that’s hate speech, and means we deserve to be attacked and murdered? Women aren’t attacking trans, making online threats of violence, and maybe that’s the problem. Maybe if women gave back as much hate, and did as much or more violence back to them when they throw the first punch, maybe if we attacked like wolves instead of sheep, they’d back off. Being kind and expecting men to be nice in return, yeah, appeasement works, right, no wait . ..
Women hold a lot of rage at male violence and entitlement. Maybe we should have the same right to express our rage at being told to ‘be kind’ to paraphiliacs, predators, and men who call for punching us in the face, burning us at the stake, and more. But if we say a man can’t be a woman, that’s hate speech, and means we deserve to be attacked and murdered? Women aren’t attacking trans, making online threats of violence, and maybe that’s the problem. Maybe if women gave back as much hate, and did as much or more violence back to them when they throw the first punch, maybe if we attacked like wolves instead of sheep, they’d back off. Being kind and expecting men to be nice in return, yeah, appeasement works, right, no wait . ..
“Sarah and many others in our community hold a lot of rage and anger and they have the right to express that anger through their words.”
I’m sorry, but isn’t this a textbook definition of ‘hate crime’?
If I said that I wanted to ‘punch a TIM in the f*king face’, and used the phrase above as a defence, I’d be arrested!
Calling for punching women in the face sounds very much like toxic masculinity, regardless of how or what you identify with. Sorry to end a sentence with a preposition.
Calling for punching women in the face sounds very much like toxic masculinity, regardless of how or what you identify with. Sorry to end a sentence with a preposition.
Another great article, Joan, which shows how deeply this well-marketed ideology has penetrated. Like you, I’m flabbergasted at how easily our institutions, politicians and services have fallen for what can only be described as a misogynistic, homophobic movement which has no care or interest in the societal safeguards we all need. Shame on those who facilitate this through their complicity and on those who are too afraid to speak out. As has been said countless times, the emperor is completely naked so why do our supposed leaders not speak up?
Anyone who questioned any cultural and social changes since the late 1960s has been villified. When Mary Whitehouse campaigned against violence and sex on television she was villified.
Martin Niemöller – Wikiquote
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
Then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew
When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.
When one looks at court intrigues, the most spiteful were the eunuchs.
Fiona – With a few changes, your comment could have been a letter to a newspaper, written any time in the last hundred years, about any social movement you care to think of. And especially about feminism.
Anyone who questioned any cultural and social changes since the late 1960s has been villified. When Mary Whitehouse campaigned against violence and sex on television she was villified.
Martin Niemöller – Wikiquote
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
Then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew
When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.
When one looks at court intrigues, the most spiteful were the eunuchs.
Fiona – With a few changes, your comment could have been a letter to a newspaper, written any time in the last hundred years, about any social movement you care to think of. And especially about feminism.
Another great article, Joan, which shows how deeply this well-marketed ideology has penetrated. Like you, I’m flabbergasted at how easily our institutions, politicians and services have fallen for what can only be described as a misogynistic, homophobic movement which has no care or interest in the societal safeguards we all need. Shame on those who facilitate this through their complicity and on those who are too afraid to speak out. As has been said countless times, the emperor is completely naked so why do our supposed leaders not speak up?
Those poor normal trans people!! You know the men in dresses who want into women’s toilets, changing rooms, rape crisis centres, sports. They’re just normal!!
Those poor normal trans people!! You know the men in dresses who want into women’s toilets, changing rooms, rape crisis centres, sports. They’re just normal!!
Great that, unlike most of the MSM you are calling him as him. Why do so many women support this movement? Can someone enlighten me?
False Consciousness, Stockholm Syndrome, etc. women are trained to identify as wives and mothers, not people, and are often collaborators, PickMes, handmaids, and Mombies. Many women are rightly terrified of confronting men.
False Consciousness, Stockholm Syndrome, etc. women are trained to identify as wives and mothers, not people, and are often collaborators, PickMes, handmaids, and Mombies. Many women are rightly terrified of confronting men.
Great that, unlike most of the MSM you are calling him as him. Why do so many women support this movement? Can someone enlighten me?
Why wasn’t this bloke arrested – isn’t incitement to violence against the law?
Why wasn’t this bloke arrested – isn’t incitement to violence against the law?
Excellent article. The good news is that this deeply unpleasant and violent misogynist man has now been arrested. Although I doubt the Met would have bothered had they not been shamed into it by gender-critical activists.
Agreed – can’t look good though; founder of the Transprisoner Alliance being arrested, again?!
Probably banged up with women too – it’s crazy on crazy.
Agreed – can’t look good though; founder of the Transprisoner Alliance being arrested, again?!
Probably banged up with women too – it’s crazy on crazy.
Excellent article. The good news is that this deeply unpleasant and violent misogynist man has now been arrested. Although I doubt the Met would have bothered had they not been shamed into it by gender-critical activists.
I would cheer a woman who would walk up this “it” and slam him with a cricket bat.
I would cheer a woman who would walk up this “it” and slam him with a cricket bat.
Police would have dragged anyone praying silently off in handcuffs, thought policing
Police would have dragged anyone praying silently off in handcuffs, thought policing
Well written. I tire of reading how trans are persecuted. Maybe the problem lies within.
Well written. I tire of reading how trans are persecuted. Maybe the problem lies within.
Sadly true.
Sadly true.
The hard left (who have hi-jacked trans-activism) is always violent and misogynist. Remember Jenny in Forrest Gump?
The hard left (who have hi-jacked trans-activism) is always violent and misogynist. Remember Jenny in Forrest Gump?
So right. The violence is always from men to women, and no woman has ever called for harming trans, we just don’t want them in our spaces, where they HAVE been abusing us, and why on earth should women ‘be nice’ to those who call for violence against women? The Transish Inquisition, calling for the death of heretics, and THEY get to define who’s a heretic . ..
Thanks for this analysis. It’s strong throughout, but your last paragraph, especially, lands with the force of a simple and ugly truth. Nothing so makes clear that trans-identified males are still males as aggressive, bullying behavior and calls to violence.
Or say “dead men don’t rape” or “all men are rapists” or write the SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto, or shoot Andy Warhol, or cheer women who had cut off men’s ——- etc etc.
Suffragettes, btw, used bombs and invaded parliament.
Not so nice being on the receiving end is it.
I tell you whut, capon, the day women harm men at the same rate men harm women, I will consider your lies. And Valerie was right. Dead men don’t rape. Warhol had it coming. And women were imprisoned and tortured for demanding the vote. Your only problem is your mother didn’t swallow. Men like you are why women’s lives are so horrible.
I tell you whut, capon, the day women harm men at the same rate men harm women, I will consider your lies. And Valerie was right. Dead men don’t rape. Warhol had it coming. And women were imprisoned and tortured for demanding the vote. Your only problem is your mother didn’t swallow. Men like you are why women’s lives are so horrible.
Or say “dead men don’t rape” or “all men are rapists” or write the SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto, or shoot Andy Warhol, or cheer women who had cut off men’s ——- etc etc.
Suffragettes, btw, used bombs and invaded parliament.
Not so nice being on the receiving end is it.
This is pretty dishonest piece, even if I agree broadly with the overall position being taken. And this dishonesty doesn’t help the debate.
To take just one point (there are many):
No, it’s a “slur” against those feminists who feel that women’s rights should take priority over trans rights in areas where they conflict. That’s not the same.
Unherd should not be a haven for Ranty feminists, dishonest rhetoric, preaching to the converted and sub Daily Mail journalism.
Btw – recent brilliant and balanced piece by Kathleen Stock is why I recently renewed my sub after a big gap. More of that please.
Well, that’s mighty white of you, TaterTot. Like I have any (85s left to give you.
Well, that’s mighty white of you, TaterTot. Like I have any (85s left to give you.
This is pretty dishonest piece, even if I agree broadly with the overall position being taken. And this dishonesty doesn’t help the debate.
To take just one point (there are many):
No, it’s a “slur” against those feminists who feel that women’s rights should take priority over trans rights in areas where they conflict. That’s not the same.
Unherd should not be a haven for Ranty feminists, dishonest rhetoric, preaching to the converted and sub Daily Mail journalism.
Btw – recent brilliant and balanced piece by Kathleen Stock is why I recently renewed my sub after a big gap. More of that please.
It seems like men are either part of the patriarchy hence at the root of all the problems in the world, or are too much like women and are therefore stealing women’s exclusive spaces.
It’s hard to avoid concluding that no matter how they approach problems, feminists can’t imagine a world where men aren’t a problem. Perhaps it’s time feminists begin to admit that they’re part of the problem here.
Thumbs up from me, for a good attempt on your part to break up the herd a little.
And there is a genuine irony in that feminists have been trying to make men more like women for decades – but seem rather to have overshot the mark.
Or perhaps it isn’t just irony. Perhaps the feminism that kids have now been exposed to in school for decades has resulted in a significant number of men simply wanting to jump ship.
Feminism wields a significant amount of power in today’s society. Therefore it’s unavoidably responsible for some of its significant failures. The sooner we can start exploring this the better.
If feminism had power, men like you would have been erased a long time ago. Go explore yourself. And don’t tell us about our lives and our history, capon,
If feminism had power, men like you would have been erased a long time ago. Go explore yourself. And don’t tell us about our lives and our history, capon,
So you know what all feminists have planned? Are you on drugs? should you be? And go ahead, jump ship, most of you would poison the sharks.
Feminism wields a significant amount of power in today’s society. Therefore it’s unavoidably responsible for some of its significant failures. The sooner we can start exploring this the better.
So you know what all feminists have planned? Are you on drugs? should you be? And go ahead, jump ship, most of you would poison the sharks.
Yes, we are, because we should stop birthing all males. Problem solved. We only need a few prime specimens for breeding. The rest of you are worthless.
Thumbs up from me, for a good attempt on your part to break up the herd a little.
And there is a genuine irony in that feminists have been trying to make men more like women for decades – but seem rather to have overshot the mark.
Or perhaps it isn’t just irony. Perhaps the feminism that kids have now been exposed to in school for decades has resulted in a significant number of men simply wanting to jump ship.
Yes, we are, because we should stop birthing all males. Problem solved. We only need a few prime specimens for breeding. The rest of you are worthless.
It seems like men are either part of the patriarchy hence at the root of all the problems in the world, or are too much like women and are therefore stealing women’s exclusive spaces.
It’s hard to avoid concluding that no matter how they approach problems, feminists can’t imagine a world where men aren’t a problem. Perhaps it’s time feminists begin to admit that they’re part of the problem here.