Those Horrible White Children

That’s just all…what’s that word…conspiracy theory. Yeah. Conspiracy. And as we all know, us smart people anyway, conspiracies don’t work on any sort of a large scale because, eventually as they get larger, someone either screws up or breaks down and lets the cat out of the bag. So what you’re showing here is obviously made up right-wing propaganda. You’re all part of a cult or something.

We don’t have to hide who we are.”
So activists, not teachers.

So activists, not teachers.
Racist activists.

Ghillie suits.

I’m aware of people in education (in the UK) who see it as their duty to counteract what they perceive to be the various lies and omissions spread by hateful rightwing propaganda.
By “hateful rightwing propaganda”, they invariably mean The Sun (“racist”), The Daily Mail (“very racist”), The Daily Telegraph (“Reactionary bigots”), Sky News (“Corporate shills”) and, initially somewhat more surprisingly, BBC News (the hatred of which can effectively be summed up as “Why haven’t they fired that bitch Laura Kuenssberg yet?”).
Social Media has expanded “hateful rightwing propaganda” to also include politics in other countries (notably, Trump), but mainly Youtube channels: P J Watson (“racist conspiracy theorist”), Carl Benjamin/The Lotus Eaters (“rapey, racist of Swindon”) and now defunct Reddit communities (“rapey racists International”).
In their view, roughly speaking, there has been an institutional capture of the mainstream media by soulless and profit-driven Capitalist magnates who use their media outlets to manipulate the democratic process, spreading hatred and racism as a way of distracting the populace from noticing how they are being exploited for profit.
By “manipulate the democratic process”, they basically mean their predictions turning out to be wrong (again) – the Leave vote beating out the Remain vote for Brexit in 2016 (“What?!?”) and the devastating collapse of support for Labour under Jeremy Corbyn in the 2019 General Election (“How?!?”).
Since both of these catastrophic defeats are perceived to have been essentially impossible, both require extraordinary evidence to explain them.
Bypassing completely the possibility that people might actually choose the media that best reflects their worldview rather than reflect the worldview provided by their chosen media (not to mention the possibility that their own worldview might be in need of revision), they proceed straight to the conclusion that it is their duty and responsibility to proselytise their own views, which of course are correct, for the benefit of their pupils, society, the environment, and the world.
Naturally, they were already doing this before 2016, so that justification has stayed pretty much the same. But what has changed is the feeling that they must have previously underestimated the power and influence of the dark forces opposing them and so only an all-out massive effort can hope to counteract the pernicious propaganda machine of the Guild of Evil.
The intensity of these efforts has resulted in a good deal of pushback, which, rather than leading to a pause for reflection (“Have we maybe gone too far?”) has instead led the belief that they were right all along (“My God! The rot is even worse than we’d imagined!”).
I’ve necessarily had to generalise and gloss, but not by all that much, and what I’ve just said is a fairly common point of view in education circles in the UK. Probably close to the majority view, I’d say.

they proceed straight to the conclusion that it is their duty and responsibility to proselytise their own views, which of course are correct, for the benefit of their pupils, society, the environment, and the world.
For those inclined to habitual self-flattery, regarding yourself as a “change agent,” a champion of “social justice,” or some other noxious bollocks, is much more gratifying than merely being someone who imparts information about geography or arithmetic, which is far too low-status for these superior beings. And much less titillating.

Conspiracy: that is always the Left response to conservatives but no conspiracy is needed if many people feel the same way. For example, all through the FBI there were people who felt it necessary and acceptable to try to destroy Trump. They, as a group, no longer held to the view that the FBI should stay out of politics. They never needed to have a meeting. The funny thing is that the same leftists believe in systemic racism and patriarchy, which in the very same way do not need a big meeting to get organized, but fail to see it operating in their own domain. That is how culture works.
Teachers used to view politics as off-limits except to inculcate a modicum of patriotism. Now, as noted above, they want to be a super hero and save the world. They simply can’t imagine that others have valid but different points of view. For example, those opposed to abortion view it as murder–can you prove it is not? If it is murder, then this is a crisis much larger than “choice”. They assume that systemic racism is real and the worst crisis ever, in spite of evidence that much of the problem is due to gangster culture and drugs, not racism. They will not even look at that evidence.

Unfortunately, it’s the white boys who very entitled to express their opposite opinions and push back.
Damn white boys.

Mellow out or you will pay.
California Uber Alles.
When I first heard that song in 1980, I thought it was absurdly over-the-top. Not any more.

Marxist alert! Marxist alert! Marxist alert!
Sooner or later, everyone comes around to the problem of tolerating the intolerant: Marxists in schools are like scorpions in nurseries.

Lie to my face.

finding Jesus might be a better solution to their deep-rooted PTSD
As has often been said, leftist cults have replaced religion for a lot of people.

I’m not a religious man myself but I can’t help but think finding Jesus might be a better solution…
And then of course the indulgent replies. “I wouldn’t have known,” “I have always seen a woman,” “You are yourself without pretence,” etc.
And – equally of course – the number of pronoun-stipulators who boast of reporting Mr Sharman and trying to get him banned for noting the pretence. Which, apparently, we mustn’t do.
We must not notice the reality right in front of us.

Not entirely unrelated:

One of those items you might have assumed is satire, but apparently isn’t.

One of those items you might have assumed is satire, but apparently isn’t.

benefits of sitting down to pee for a cisgender man can include a feeling of independence… Sitting down to pee helps you empathize with and support new members of your gender community.

Er, what? Being told I have to pee sitting down doesn’t make me feel independent.

Being told I have to pee sitting down doesn’t make me feel independent.
BUT ARE YOU USING THE TOILET IN AN INTERSECTIONAL MANNER?

I see the vegans have been boosting their public standing again.

I see the vegans have been boosting their public standing again.
To say that I utterly loathe and despise everyone involved in Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil, now Animal Rebellion, and everything they feel fully entitled to do is to understate the case by quite some margin.

As she says during the recording: “I felt like a double agent or something.”
Again, titillating.

I think it is a piss take.
Ah, that’s… reassuring, I guess.

Question asked.
Also, why are people who invoke gender dysphoria at any acknowledgement of their physical reality, simultaneously relishing that same physical reality and using it as a taunt?

so I can’t comment on the particulars of the adaptation,
It’s not good.

It’s not good.
As I said, I’m not in a position to comment on its faithfulness or whatever, but the promotional clips I saw didn’t look impressive or strike me as well-written. And given the expense of the thing – $400 million or so? – it looked remarkably cheap.

And show no mercy.
Maybe people who wish to distance themselves from accusations of sexism and racism are supposed to pretend to like the thing, and to tell their friends how much they’re enjoying it, even if it’s not very good. Though what bothered me was the fact that the author of the article, Adrian Hennigan, a professional journalist and supposed cultural sophisticate, doesn’t know the meaning of the term begs the question.

Er, what?
Obedience is uniqueness.
See also:
Chaos is justice.
Infertility is life.