If you’re at all tempted to post publicly about anything that might be at all contentious then you should really join the Free Speech Union first. They will take up the cudgels on your behalf if you get sacked for saying something obvious and true.
Even you you are not likely to post anything contentious, it would be great to join. Only £40pa and they are doing us all a service.
Hugh Oxford
2 years ago
The views that Mead holds about the protection of women and children from disturbed and dangerous men is one that one would expect and hope for from people charged with the protection of vulnerable groups.
Of course her comments are discriminatory. That is good. Discrimination is good. We should discriminate against men who seek to invade and occupy the private and secure spaces of the female sex. Obviously.
Galeti Tavas
2 years ago
It is all Social Engineering anyway. Identity Politics are now the thing 100%. You are not an individual, but a collection of identity groups, as is everyone else – and at least one of those groups (gender, sexual, racial, religious, disability, age, education, class, region, culture, place of origin, criminal history, wealth/lack of wealth, kind of employment, attractiveness, marital status, political spectrum, political activity, environmental views, BLM + Critical Theory beliefs, children and family, and on and on) is offended by something in any opinion.
STFU is the new normal. Expressing views of any kind are very problematic, in this identity fragility politics time. Remember there are two kinds of people in the world, and throughout all history: Oppressed, and Oppressors. Everything you say comes down on one side or the other, best be careful it is not on the ‘Oppressor’ side.
Welcome to the new world of Post Modernism.
Tom Lewis
2 years ago
”Everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others” (or words to that effect).
Just out of curiosity, are there any practicing Muslim social workers ?
Maybe I’m just being thick, or thick and prejudiced, but why isn’t “What’s good for the goose, is good for the gander” or are ganders a protected species, because they’re standing on an intersection ?
Maybe it doesn’t matter what views, cultural, or religious, one might have and however prejudice they might appear in some instances, as long as they are from a “protected” minority it’s perfectly fine.
So much for “White privilege” !
““What’s good for the goose, is good for the gander””
Sailing a bit close to the wind there, it is now “What is good for one goose is good for another goose’.
Francis MacGabhann
2 years ago
This is the reason I hate the left with every atom of my body.
James Joyce
2 years ago
How timely! It seems that UnHerd has changed the name associated with my comments from what Apple had scrambled it to–a long string of letters and numbers–back to something close to my real name. Is it possible to change it to a Nomme de post? It seems that some do this, while the bravest among us (read the article, perhaps not a good idea if cancellation is possible) use their real names. Or perhaps they haven’t yet read the article.
How did this change overnight and how can one change it back?
“How did this change overnight and how can one change it back?”
Go to the top of the Unherd page and click on the ‘My Account’ link. That takes you to a page called ‘Your details’.
Beneath your name it says ‘If you wish to update the name on your profile, please click here.’ Click on that link and it takes you to a page called email preferences where it shows your account name as ‘forename’ and ‘surname’. Make whatever changes to the name you want then save them.
Many thanks, BUT it doesn’t say that. There is no field that says if you want to update your name on the profile…. When I click on update, it takes me to the financial details. I vaguely remember something like what you mentioned but it’s gone. Signing in with Apple seemed to anonomize me and just today it changed. Wow!
Did this change work? No, I changed my Forename and Surname, and the profile said that the changes took. It is changed on the profile page but not in the posts.
If you’re at all tempted to post publicly about anything that might be at all contentious then you should really join the Free Speech Union first. They will take up the cudgels on your behalf if you get sacked for saying something obvious and true.
Even you you are not likely to post anything contentious, it would be great to join. Only £40pa and they are doing us all a service.
The views that Mead holds about the protection of women and children from disturbed and dangerous men is one that one would expect and hope for from people charged with the protection of vulnerable groups.
Of course her comments are discriminatory. That is good. Discrimination is good. We should discriminate against men who seek to invade and occupy the private and secure spaces of the female sex. Obviously.
It is all Social Engineering anyway. Identity Politics are now the thing 100%. You are not an individual, but a collection of identity groups, as is everyone else – and at least one of those groups (gender, sexual, racial, religious, disability, age, education, class, region, culture, place of origin, criminal history, wealth/lack of wealth, kind of employment, attractiveness, marital status, political spectrum, political activity, environmental views, BLM + Critical Theory beliefs, children and family, and on and on) is offended by something in any opinion.
STFU is the new normal. Expressing views of any kind are very problematic, in this identity fragility politics time. Remember there are two kinds of people in the world, and throughout all history: Oppressed, and Oppressors. Everything you say comes down on one side or the other, best be careful it is not on the ‘Oppressor’ side.
Welcome to the new world of Post Modernism.
”Everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others” (or words to that effect).
Just out of curiosity, are there any practicing Muslim social workers ?
Maybe I’m just being thick, or thick and prejudiced, but why isn’t “What’s good for the goose, is good for the gander” or are ganders a protected species, because they’re standing on an intersection ?
Maybe it doesn’t matter what views, cultural, or religious, one might have and however prejudice they might appear in some instances, as long as they are from a “protected” minority it’s perfectly fine.
So much for “White privilege” !
““What’s good for the goose, is good for the gander””
Sailing a bit close to the wind there, it is now “What is good for one goose is good for another goose’.
This is the reason I hate the left with every atom of my body.
How timely! It seems that UnHerd has changed the name associated with my comments from what Apple had scrambled it to–a long string of letters and numbers–back to something close to my real name. Is it possible to change it to a Nomme de post? It seems that some do this, while the bravest among us (read the article, perhaps not a good idea if cancellation is possible) use their real names. Or perhaps they haven’t yet read the article.
How did this change overnight and how can one change it back?
“How did this change overnight and how can one change it back?”
Go to the top of the Unherd page and click on the ‘My Account’ link. That takes you to a page called ‘Your details’.
Beneath your name it says ‘If you wish to update the name on your profile, please click here.’ Click on that link and it takes you to a page called email preferences where it shows your account name as ‘forename’ and ‘surname’. Make whatever changes to the name you want then save them.
Many thanks, BUT it doesn’t say that. There is no field that says if you want to update your name on the profile…. When I click on update, it takes me to the financial details. I vaguely remember something like what you mentioned but it’s gone. Signing in with Apple seemed to anonomize me and just today it changed. Wow!
Mine says if I want to change the name on my profile, click here.
Did this change work? No, I changed my Forename and Surname, and the profile said that the changes took. It is changed on the profile page but not in the posts.