Stuart D Neilson

"It doesn’t matter if a #girl #identified as a #cat (she didn’t). The issue is how post-truth #politics exploits it."

— Nesrine Malik, in the @guardiannews

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/26/girl-didnt-identified-as-a-cat-post-truth-politics-media-gender-identity

It doesn’t matter if a girl identified as a cat (she didn’t). The issue is how post-truth politics exploits it

We pay a high price for the rows and divisions created by the right and its media allies to distract from their failings, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

The Guardian
Jun 26, 2023 at 2:02pmWeb
Show threadStuart D NeilsonJun 26, 2023

@guardiannews "#CatChild didn’t happen, just as #RuleBritannia! and #LandOfHopeAndGlory were not axed from what was described as the BBC’s “#BlackLivesMatter Proms”. Nor was Cambridge University “forced to drop #white #authors”, or a #Muslim #BusDriver allowed to throw his #passengers out so he could #pray, or an #Iraqi caught “#redhanded” with a #bomb awarded thousands of pounds in #compensation for being kept in #custody too long.

I could go on, but there simply isn’t enough space."

Show threadStuart D NeilsonJun 26, 2023
@guardiannews "But the #costs of this are high. Not just to our ability to negotiate inevitable changes and accommodations needed in a modern, #compassionate #society, but to the people at the heart of these #distortions and #fabrications – #immigrants, #racial and #sexual #minorities, #disabled #benefit claimants. They are caught in the bandwagon spokes: mangled and traduced."