Sunday, March 19, 2023

Anti-trans rally in Melbourne

Please start with my article, "Posie Parker Won't Tell Us About the Billionaires". It's a 6-minute read on Medium.

In reply, @EmrysOmega Mar 18, 2023 tweet: She told everyone who she was. That she'd have no qualms about denying a woman a voice by force, because she disagreed, shouldn't surprise anyone.

Gender Nebulous podcast, S2 Ep1: An interview with Eliana Rubashkyn, Intersex, Trans, Feminist, Activist and Scientist Episode description: "This is an interview with Eliana Rubashkyn (Eli), the human rights activist who poured tomato juice over Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull (Posie Parker) in March of 2023 at Minshull's anti-trans rally in Auckland’s Albert Park, New Zealand." (1 hr 57 min)

Backlash?

Erin Reed tweeted on Jun 13, 2022: "Deplatforming works. Radicalization happens via convenience. You find the content that radicalizes people into hate by wandering across it on a platform you consume trusted content on. Deplatforming cuts that process off."

(Re: "backlash," as Dr. William Horne said on Dec 7, 2021 re: the United States: "our information networks are owned & operated by those literally invested in the white consensus." (tweet) "If you're looking for a useful & accessible resource on white backlashes in the U.S., Carol Anderson's White Rage is the first text on my syllabus for exactly that reason. Highly recommend!" (tweet) In response to comments on Twitter:

"No, the existence of an optional course at a university you choose to attend for grad school is not "indoctrination," nor is reading abt things that happened & discussing them—which is what the course actually consists of. What is *actual* indoctrination is demanding that courses like this, which do raise serious questions abt existing systems of power, be banned. But thanks for this trip into the Upside Down! 2) Threatening someone for using the term "white backlash" makes you look like a 🤡 by, as noted above, actually illustrating a key suppressionist element of historical & ongoing white backlashes. Nice work! 3) No, the existence of Black, Latinx, or other white backlashers of color doesn't mean it's not a white backlash. In fact, every white backlash in U.S. history involved either a realignment of "whiteness" or a collaboration w/Black & other racialized elites. Did Confederate Cherokees support, idk, "inclusion?" No, they supported proximity to power--to the white supremacist state & its regime of slave-capital. Did Black enslavers support equality? Well, no. Although the tightening grip of racist legislation diminished this group by the 1850s, every enslaving state boasted a free Black population that asserted their own rights at the expense of enslaved. The same might be said for Irish, Italian, Jewish, & countless other immigrant groups of the 19th & 20th centuries deemed initially nonwhite, only to relocate under the aegis of whiteness by aligning against Black Americans & newer generations of migrants. Not new. And in fact, today's your lucky day, bc the last book on my syllabus, Daniel Martinez HoSang & Joseph E. Lowndes, Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity, analyzes this phenomenon re Trumpism."

Anyhow: "Last week, during our last session of my White Backlash graduate course, my students asked me if I thought the U.S. would descend into a civil war during the next decade. I replied that the current situation is much more bleak than that." (tweet) ... "In short, the system they created is incredibly thorough, designed to prevent fallout from suppression. It MIRRORIS PRECISELY the tactics white supremacists used to create & affirm via SCOTUS an apartheid state from the 1890s through the 1960s in the U.S." (tweet)

And see his earlier thread:

Anyhow

J. Logan Smilges @jlsmilges tweet April 5, 2023: It shouldn’t be lost on us which colors are severed from the rainbow in addition to the trans ones. LGB disavowals of trans people are part of a larger racialized eugenic project because gender fascism is, at its core, a vector of white supremacy.

Still going

April 23, 2023 tweet:

tweet from @mimmymum on 23 Apr 2023, citing a qnews.com.au article, 'Anti-trans white supremacists celebrate Hitler's birthday,' saying that Thomas Sewell, leader of the National Socialist Network, was in attendance at the Hitler's birthday event and also previously at the KJK Melbourne anti-trans rally
The article: Anti-trans white supremacists celebrate Hitler’s birthday by Destiny Rogers, Q News, April 23, 2023

On May 29, 2023, in response to a Patrick Strudwick article that said Kellie Jay-Keen (aka Posie Parker) "staged a mass Nazi salute" at her Melbourne "Let Women Speak" rally, Rowling posted a four-paragraph statement on Twitter. She said: "Actual Nazis have turned up on the fringes of Let Women Speak events for exactly the same reason aggressive, narcissistic trans activists are there. These groups closely resemble each other." She ended by encouraging KJK to sue: "It's high time those peddling lies like Strudwick's are held accountable and I sincerely hope @ThePosieParker takes action."

Of course, this is deliberate nonsense. The Nazis at the Melbourne rally in March carried a banner that said "Destroy Paedo Freaks," an anti-transgender sentiment that complemented KJK's anti-transgender platform and remains consistent with Nazis' historically genocidal antipathy toward trans/queer people. Nazis were not there "for the same reason" as trans counter-protesters were there. They were there for the opposite reason. Nazis have always been, and remain, hostile to trans people.

Courtney tweets on May 29, 2023: These Nazis doing the salute had just gone to Posie Parker's anti-trans rally, where they stood with her and were not ejected by her or any transphobes.
Lilah TheyPG tweeting in response to JK Rowling saying Nazis weren't invited to Posie Parker's rally: Hi JK, I was at that rally, you were not, would you like some of my personal footage from the day? it'll make you look a wee silly though. People from the 'Let Women Speak' crew were shaking hands with, getting selfies with and patting the backs of the Nazis who they invited
Not only did Posie know there was a chance Nazis would come, she refused to disavow them ahead of time because 'everyone is welcome' that everyone included Nazis and all the people on her side cheering them on. You can't gatecrash something you were invited to.
Tweet by Jessie Earl @jessiegender May 30, 2023 - JK Rowling is offering to pay to legal fees of Kellie-Jay Keen Minsull. KJKM has called for violence against trans people, spread antisemetic conspiracy theories, called herself 'not a feminist', held rallies where TERFs quote Mein Kampf, and had neo-Nazis publicly support her. Screenshot of Rowling tweet re: KJKM: 'She knows where I am'

J.K. Rowling responded by expressing hope that trans people and our defenders will be guillotined.

J.K. Rowling, May 30, 2023 tweet: You lie and smear, assuming you'll live out your days as a hanging judge and never find yourself in the dock. No cultural moment lasts forever. Yesterday's fanatics realise they joined the wrong mob. Populist movements shrivel and fall apart. Robespierre ended on the guillotine.

Looks like a legal fight was won:

J.K. Rowling tweets on August 3: A retraction and apology has been issued by iNews for the baseless accusation made by journalist @PatrickStrud against Kellie-Jay Keen, aka @ThePosieParker. Mr Strudwick has forgotten to share this on Twitter, so it would be nice if people could help him out. Rowling shared a screenshot: Editor's note: The original version of this article reported that 'an anti-trans rally organised by British 'gender critical' campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen staged a mass Nazi salute'. We are happy to clarify that Ms Keen, the organiser of the Let Women Speak event in Melbourne, did not stage a mass Nazi salute. The group of masked men who did so in the vicinity of the event was neither invited by Ms Keen nor endorsed by her. We apologise to Ms Keen for this error.

Meanwhile, ooooooo:

Tweet by On a clear day @ICanSeeForever1 on 26 June 2023: Kellie-Jay Keen's Youtube channel has been demonetized.

And:

In August 2023, Victoria began considering a new law to ban Nazi salutes.

May 30, 2023 tweet by the Midnight Society (midnight_pals): Rowling: people keep accusssing my terf deatheatersss of being nazissss! Barker: is it because of all the nazis at your rallies Barker: what about these photos & videos of nazis at your rallies Rowling: oh pffft! Rowling: you can ussse proof to prove anything!

And:

Video of more than 150 men performing fascist salute sparks outrage in Italy A viral video of more than 150 men, raising their arms in a fascist salute in central Rome, has caused outrage in Italy. The event, now under investigation by Italian police, took place January 7 [2024] to mark the anniversary of the killing of three neo-fascist activists 46 years ago.

See what's happening in Australia in December 2024

"The leadership spill is the latest in an ongoing saga that saw Ms Deeming win a defamation case against Mr Pesutto earlier this month.

She alleged he had defamed her as a Nazi sympathiser in the wake of an anti-trans-rights rally on the steps of Victorian parliament last year, which was gatecrashed by neo-Nazis.

In the aftermath of the rally, Mr Pesutto failed in a bid to have Ms Deeming booted from the parliamentary Liberal Party. She was instead suspended for nine months.

Ms Deeming was eventually expelled from the parliamentary party last May, after threatening legal action against Mr Pesutto, but remained a member of the broader Liberal Party."

— Victorian opposition to vote on John Pesutto's future as leader after four MPs seek special meeting, MSN, 21 Dec 2024

#BREAKING 🚨 Vic Liberal leader John Pesutto has called a special partyroom meeting for 15 January 2025 to discuss readmitting Moira Deeming – one day after he said the issue was finished "There is a definite absolute majority of colleagues who want this resolved…I again apologise to Mrs Deeming"

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— 6 News Australia (@6newsau.bsky.social) December 21, 2024 at 9:48 PM
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