Activism - Quillette (Page 13)

Toronto's Meghan Murphy Meltdown: A Case Study in Media-Driven Social Panic

In some cases, media bosses no longer even pretend that their staffers are anything but in-house social-justice activists.

Jonathan Kay

31 Oct 2019 · 12 min read

Male-Bodied Rapists Are Being Imprisoned With Women. Why Do so Few People Care?

It appears that common sense is forgotten once the words “gender identity” are invoked.

April Halley

12 Oct 2019 · 15 min read

Understanding the Propaganda Campaign Against So-called ‘TERFs’

It certainly sounds bad (“exclusion” being a modern secular sin), for it suggests that so-called TERFs want trans people excluded from health care, or from jobs or homes, or from society as a whole—or even from life itself.

Helen Joyce

2 Oct 2019 · 9 min read

How the Trans-Rights Movement Is Turning Philosophers Into Activists

Can we not treat trans people as the sex they identify with for almost all purposes, and still make some distinctions when it comes to female-only spaces, services and provisions?

Holly Lawford-Smith

20 Sep 2019 · 17 min read

In the U.S. Campus Speech Wars, Palestinian Advocacy Is a Blind Spot

This silencing campaign presents itself as inclusive and therapeutic. In reality, it poses a significant threat to intellectual and academic freedom, yet one that seems perennially overlooked in the campus speech wars.

Andy Lamey

18 Sep 2019 · 19 min read

Yaniv’s Other Racket: How a Single Gender Troll Managed to Get 'Hundreds' of Women Thrown Off Twitter

The larger discussion of how trans rights and women’s rights will be reconciled in coming years lies beyond the scope of this article.

Lindsay Shepherd / Jonathan Kay

31 Aug 2019 · 9 min read

Gamers are the Easy—But Wrong—Target After Mass Violence

When members of other communities are involved in mass violence, we rightfully are cautioned not to reflexively blame the community as a whole, and gaming should get the same treatment.

Christopher J. Ferguson

20 Aug 2019 · 7 min read

How the Hong Kong Protestors’ Tactical Brilliance Backed Beijing into a Corner

Just as they are doing with seemingly every obstacle in their way, Hong Kong protesters innovated around the need for a strong leader.

Nick Taber

19 Aug 2019 · 9 min read

The Campaign to Destroy Equal Voice

The conflict between management and the young staffers at Equal Voice is not only an ideological divide, but a generational one, and the younger cohort employs a particularly dramatic lexicon.

Lona Manning

16 Aug 2019 · 14 min read

The Bigotry of Environmental Pessimism

The “Lorax” view of environmental problems as a consequence of greed has always been wrong and depressing.

Michael Shellenberger

15 Aug 2019 · 8 min read

The Rise of ‘Drag Kids’—and the Death of Gay Culture

There was—and will always be—promiscuity, homosexuality, prostitution, fetish culture and adultery—because sex is human.

Sky Gilbert

10 Aug 2019 · 13 min read

In Defense of Political Hypocrisy

Everyone with political beliefs benefits from systems that they oppose in some way.

Christian Barnard

9 Aug 2019 · 5 min read

China and the Difficulties of Dissent

As the world’s most powerful fascist regime, one would expect China to encounter great difficulties spreading its influence on liberal Australian university campuses, the student bodies of which are hypersensitive to right-wing teaching or teachers.