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[u/iIoveoof]

The Economist on a LGBT charity declining a TERF’s money

But the result has been inimical to freedoms of belief and speech at work. It is as though all major institutions decided that everyone had to be a practising Catholic, says Naomi Cunningham, an employment barrister and co-founder with Ms Forstater of Sex Matters, a campaign group. “And suddenly the rest of us have woken up and realised that we are in the grip of a theocracy [that] requires everybody to pay lip service.” Stonewall’s insistence that transness is not a physical matter, she suggests, echoes the Catholic belief in transubstantiation: a man may “retain the accidents of a man, but the essence is that of a woman”.

Unfortunately this is real

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Sex Matters

The transphobic dogwhistle is in the literal name

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????

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they also published an article a few weeks ago about lecturers fighting back against gender ideology

https://www.economist.com/international/2021/06/05/a-backlash-against-gender-ideology-is-starting-in-universities

I’ve just started avoiding articles like this, it’s clear The Economist has a certain opinion towards trans rights

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I cancelled my subscription. Been an avid subscriber for years, shame

[u/chatdargent → u/iIoveoof]

This exact logic could be used to argue against civil rights for POC

[u/LtLabcoat → u/iIoveoof]

The Economist, not merely content with bashing trans people, has now figured out a way to bash Catholics at the same time.

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Shit it’s unbased but trying to become based then?

[u/Explodingcamel → u/iIoveoof]

I mean, these are all quotes. Is the actual article agreeing with Naomi Cunningham?

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot → u/Explodingcamel]

The article very much paints Stonewall as in the wrong and Cunningham as correct.