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Comment by nullbio

3 hours ago

Considering they arrest people for saying "there are only two genders", I'm fairly certain the bar is incredibly low. I'm not sugar-coating this by the way, saw a Youtube video of this happening a week or so ago on one of those police watch videos. Someone in a pub was having a verbal debate with someone about genders, then a bystander told the police and had them arrested for "hate crime" for saying "there are only two genders".

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GJim  3 hours ago

> Considering they arrest people for saying "there are only two genders"

Citation please.

(EDIT: Citation of an arrest just for saying that, not an arrest for incitement.)

  • tredre3  2 hours ago

    He's clearly quoting the Graham Linehan case where a group of police officers arrested him for his tweets that did include the only-two-gender thing. However, as you suspected, that's not all he said. Linehan suggested in another tweet that people should punch transwomen in the face if they refuse to leave the female bathroom.

    • nullbio  1 hour ago

      I'm not actually. How did you get "arrested for tweets" from my post where I said it was a video of a 20-something year old having a debate with someone at a pub?

      I'll take that as confirmation that it happens all the time though - since this was evidently not an isolated case, as you have pointed out.

    • dspillett  2 hours ago

      It was the balls:

          If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, 
    he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, 
    call the cops and if all else fails, punch him in the 
    balls.

      By inference he thinks that if someone makes you feel uncomfortable, by doing nothing illegal nor immoral (in the mind of a right-thinking person), punching their genitalia is acceptable. If I ever meet him I think I might feel quite uncomfortable, which would be unfortunate.

Quarrelsome  36 minutes ago

> Considering they arrest people for saying "there are only two genders"

Can we please stop using a country you clearly have limited understanding of, as a prop in your morality play for your own activism?

Bear in mind that these "takes" are often sensationalised with useful context removed in order to better sell the message to yank markets.

If you're gonna chat shit about my nation, please afford it some level of respect in doing some research of conflicting views instead of parroting whatever twaddle the demagogue du jour is bleating.