Media & ArtsHas anyone read "The Transgender-Industrial Complex"?

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[–]PenseePansyBio-Sex or Bust 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

First I've heard of this book, so as per my usual practice in such cases, I looked up the publisher to get a feel for their sensibility.

Here's their site, and the kind of titles they release. Notice any themes?

https://www.antelopehillpublishing.com/

I mean, even a stopped clock is right twice a day and all that, plus right-leaning sources are among the few who dare question trans ideology... but from what I can tell, this outfit does NOT exactly inspire confidence (to say the least) :(

[–]HelloMomo[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

With Helen Joyce's book coming out in the UK, she's also getting attacked on the basis of "anti-Semitism". From what she says (and she's someone I really trust to be a good journalist) there were indeed 2 Jewish billionaires who donated lots of funding to the trans lobby. But her book doesn't wallow in their religion/ethnicity, though, while this book seems to (from what little I've read of it).

In the name of being skeptical of wokism, I guess I won't say that that Jewish conspiracies are categorically impossible, just because it's not PC. But like... I really think that the kind of Jewish people who might make plans with other Jewish people, and have any sort of Jewish infrastructure to back them, would be Orthodoxic Jews, not secular Jews?

[–]PenseePansyBio-Sex or Bust 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Helen Joyce is talking about the epically-creepy AGPs Martin "Martine" Rothblatt and James "Jennifer" Pritzker, right? I mean, yeah, they're both Jewish-- that's simply a fact-- but I don't really see the significance of this. Like, if they both have brown eyes, does that mean there's a pro-trans conspiracy going on among brown-eyed people? Or people born in the 1950s? (They both were.) Or fathers of 3-4 children? (Again, something they have in common.) And if these were both non-Jewish guys, would that constitute proof of "trans" being a specifically Gentile plot? I don't think so.

It sounds like Joyce is discussing two major funders of the trans agenda who happen to be Jewish, whereas this other author is saying that, because of Rothblatt's and Pritzker's ethnicity, the trans agenda itself must be Jewish. As you point out, that makes all the difference in the world.

And one of those rightly deserves to be called anti-Semitic... but (based on the above, at least) it sure isn't Joyce.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The UK seems to have a weird problem with dishonest actors being able to call anyone antisemitic and making that person instantly politically radioactive.

They somehow painted Jeremy Corbin this way with obviously ridiculous criticism.