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| Élise Hendrick: | One argument I've heard on the left is that calling on Cardiff University to reconsider their decision to honour Greer as a 'Distinguished Lecturer' constitutes 'no platforming', and it's the wrong thing to do because 'no platform' is a tactic reserved for fascists. The argument, from what I've seen, goes: 'Yes, Greer's said some awful things about trans women, but we don't no-platform fascists just because they say awful things, but because there's violence backing it up.' What do you make of that? |
| Payton Quinn: | Surely the readily available statistics on the rise of attacks on, and murder of, trans women and the lack of protection for trans people against dehumanization and hate speech is a testament to the culture of violence against trans people that currently exists. There's a plethora of studies that indicate that it is easy to normalize and rationalize violence towards a marginalized group when you dehumanize them. Referring to trans people collectively as a "trans cabal", comparing trans women to rapists and murders, purposeful comparisons to animals and even going as far as labelling trans women "unmen" is clear dehumanization. |
-- from Screaming Violets magazine, 2015-11-17
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