Comment by tredre3

5 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.

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tredre3

dspillett 5 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.

nullbio 4 hours 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.

failbuffer 1 hour ago

Unpopular opinion: your right to free speech includes the right to advocate for violence, so long as it's not imminent (as in inciting a riot).

That includes your right to support Hamas or Israel, your right to support abortion, your right to support defensive gun use, your right... well actually your right to support a lot of things given how readily innocuous things are described by opponents as "violence" or "assault".

Fortunately in the U.S. this is recognized under Brandenburg v. Ohio.