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(1) Black activist wakes up to Black Lives Matters - Soros-funded Feminist, Gay agenda

(2) LGBT protestors try to stop Germain Greer lecture at Cardiff University (Oct 2015)

(3) Petition urges Cardiff University to cancel Germaine Greer lecture (Oct 2015)

(4) Germaine Greer gives Cardiff university lecture despite campaign to silence her

(5) Women-only Cambridge college to allow students who simply 'identify as female'

(6) Germaine Greer denounces female-only Cambridge college for admitting trans women

(7) Germaine Greer can no longer be called a feminist, for rejecting Trans women


(1) Black activist wakes up to Black Lives Matters - Soros-funded Feminist, Gay agenda

https://www.infowars.com/black-stanford-student-goes-viral-im-off-the-plantation-bro/

BLACK STANFORD STUDENT GOES VIRAL: ‘I’M OFF THE PLANTATION BRO!’

Woke freshman slams BLM and liberals 

Kelen McBreen | Infowars.com - MAY 31, 2018

A video of a black Stanford University freshman went viral after he slammed Black Lives Matter and exposed its liberal, feminist roots.

The 20-year-old student, Ebbie Banks, was attending a "Make Stanford Great Again" event organized by the College Republicans and hosted by Turning Point USA’s Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk.

During the Q&A session, Ebbi explained how he used to support Black Lives Matter (BLM) before doing more research and finding out the group is funded by George Soros and has a blatantly liberal agenda:

I’ve been researching Black Lives Matter and I’ve been understanding the politics and how they are funded by white liberals. And recently I’ve been feeling like they’re [BLM] white liberals in blackface because with white liberals it’s all about feminism, LGBT… white liberals don’t really care about black people. I realized white liberals don’t really care about me, bro! I’m off the plantation bro! I’m off the plantation, bro! I escaped the plantation bro!

He continued, "I’m empowered. They don’t want me to have power, they want to keep me dependent. But I’m realizing this. They put white liberal ideas… (– they put it in blackface!"

Below is Candace Owens’ response to Ebbi’s heartfelt rant where she calls BLM a "political arm of the Democratic party" who want to keep black people "enslaved and dependent via their emotion and their anger."

(2) LGBT protestors try to stop Germain Greer lecture at Cardiff University (Oct 2015)

 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/germaine-greer-may-be-barred-from-womens-rights-lecture-at-cardiff-university-after-petition-accuses-a6706751.html

Germaine Greer may be barred from women's rights lecture at Cardiff University after petition accuses her of misogyny

A petition calls on Cardiff University to cancel the event featuring the 76-year-old feminist author and academic

Chris Green @cghgreen

Friday 23 October 2015 18:56 BST

 Germaine Greer called trans women ‘parodies’ in 2009 Getty

Germaine Greer may be barred from giving a lecture on women’s rights at a leading British university after hundreds of its students signed a petition accusing her of holding “misogynistic views” about transgender people.

The petition calls on Cardiff University to cancel the event featuring the 76-year-old feminist author and academic, who has been invited to give a lecture entitled “Women & Power: The Lessons of the 20th Century” next month.

By late on 23 October almost 300 people had signed the petition, which was started by Cardiff Student’s Union Women’s Officer Rachael Melhuish. It claims hosting Greer would be “dangerous” due to her previously stated views on transgender people.

In a column written in 2009, the author of The Female Eunuch said the idea of being trans was a “delusion” and described trans women as “ghastly parodies”. Asked about the idea of transphobia at an event at Cambridge University earlier this year, she said she “didn’t know there was such a thing”, adding: “Arachnaphobia, yes. Transphobia, no.”

The petition reads: “Greer has demonstrated time and time again her misogynistic views towards trans women, including continually misgendering trans women and denying the existence of transphobia altogether.

“Trans-exclusionary views should have no place in feminism or society. Such attitudes contribute to the high levels of stigma, hatred and violence towards trans people – particularly trans women – both in the UK and across the world.”

A spokesman for the university said they believed the event would go ahead as planned. Cardiff’s vice-chancellor, Professor Colin Riordan said: “We are committed to freedom of speech and open debate. Our events include speakers with a range of views, all of which are rigorously challenged and debated. This event will be no different.

“Our commitment to our LGBT+ students and staff members is unwavering and we fully recognise the tremendous benefits having such a diverse community brings to Cardiff University. We in no way condone discriminatory comments of any kind.”

The petition’s organisers have been forced to defend their position on social media, with some users suggesting they were denying people the right to hear Ms Greer’s views. But Ms Melhuish wrote on Twitter: “We will not back down. The campaign will continue. Greer and her transphobia is not welcome on our campus.”

The Independent was unable to contact Ms Greer on 23 October.

(3) Petition urges Cardiff University to cancel Germaine Greer lecture (Oct 2015)

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/oct/23/petition-urges-cardiff-university-to-cancel-germain-greer-lecture

Change.org petition calls on university to ban lecture by feminist academic for alleged transphobic comments

Caitlyn Jenner ‘wanted limelight of female Kardashians’ – Germaine Greer

Sat 24 Oct 2015 05.36 AEDT Last modified on Wed 29 Nov 2017 19.37 AEDT

 Germaine Greer says her views on transgender people ‘an opinion, not a prohibition’

An online petition has been launched seeking to prevent Germaine Greer from giving a lecture at Cardiff University, claiming her views are “problematic” for transgender people.

The petition on Change.org was started by Rachael Melhuish, women’s officer at the university’s students’ union, and alleges that Greer has “demonstrated misogynistic views towards trans women, including continually misgendering trans women and denying the existence of transphobia altogether”.

The Australian writer is due to speak on 18 November in a lecture called Women & Power: The Lessons of the 20th Century.

Asked about the petition, Greer told the Guardian: “I don’t really know what I think of it. It strikes me as a bit of a put-up job really because I am not even going to talk about the issue that they are on about.

“What they are saying is that because I don’t think surgery will turn a man into a woman I should not be allowed to speak anywhere.”

Greer said that she did not understand the mindset of those who had signed the petition, adding: “I do not know why universities cannot hear unpopular views and think about what they mean.”

The author compared the recent growth of campaigns against speakers as a result of their views on transgender issues to the Fathers 4 Justice movement, which ran a high-profile campaign for improved rights for men denied access to their children.

“They were a right pain in the arse and they did not do their cause any good at all. This is very like that.”

The university, which has invited Greer to deliver the address for the eighth in a series of annual lectures, insisted that the event would go ahead.

The petition urging the university to cancel the event had been signed by more than 300 people by early Friday afternoon. The university has more than 30,000 students.

It says: “Trans-exclusionary views should have no place in feminism or society. Such attitudes contribute to the high levels of stigma, hatred and violence towards trans people – particularly trans women – both in the UK and across the world.

“While debate in a university should be encouraged, hosting a speaker with such problematic and hateful views towards marginalised and vulnerable groups is dangerous. Allowing Greer a platform endorses her views, and by extension, the transmisogyny which she continues to perpetuate.”

It argues that universities “should prioritise the voices of the most vulnerable on their campuses, not invite speakers who seek to further marginalise them”.

The university’s vice-chancellor, Prof Colin Riordan, said it was committed to freedom of speech and open debate. “Our events include speakers with a range of views, all of which are rigorously challenged and debated,” he said.

“This event will be no different. Our commitment to our LGBT+ students and staff members is unwavering and we fully recognise the tremendous benefits of having such a diverse community brings to Cardiff University.

“We work hard to provide a positive and welcoming space for LGBT+ people and we are in consultation with student and staff groups to ensure that the views of LGBT+ people are represented at our events. We in no way condone discriminatory comments of any kind.”

Greer said she had seen the university’s statement, which she said was “as weak as piss”.

“If the University of Cardiff cannot guarantee that I will not have things thrown at me then I won’t go there. I can’t be bothered.”

Of her critics, she added: “They think that they are entitled to throw things at me and then they say that I am inciting violence against transexuals. I have never incited anyone to violence against anyone. I am just fed up with it all. It’s all just froth.”

“I don’t expect people to agree with me. On the other hand, I don’t expect them to throw things at me and, in the past, in New Zealand I have had things thrown at me and in the end it’s just an internet campaign, which is virtual rather than real.

“I just don’t think that surgery turns a man into a woman. A perfectly permissable view. I mean, an un-man is not necessarily a woman. We don’t really know what women are and I think that a lot of women are female impersonators, because our notion of who we are is not authentic, and so I am not surprised men are better at impersonating women than women are. Not a surprise, but it’s not something I welcome.”

No examples of Greer’s alleged positions on transgender people were cited by the petition.

(4) Germaine Greer gives Cardiff university lecture despite campaign to silence her

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/nov/18/transgender-activists-protest-germaine-greer-lecture-cardiff-university 

Writer’s views on transgender women prompted thousands to sign petition to prevent lecture at Cardiff University

Steven Morris  @stevenmorris20

Thu 19 Nov 2015 07.26 AEDT First published on Thu 19 Nov 2015 01.32 AEDT

Germaine Greer defied a fierce campaign to stop her delivering a university lecture on the grounds that she has expressed transphobic views by going ahead with the event, which was conducted under high security.

During the lecture at Cardiff University, Greer insisted in the bluntest of terms that she did not accept that post-operative men were women. “I don’t believe a woman is a man without a cock,” she said. “You can beat me over the head with a baseball bat. It still won’t make me change my mind.”

Greer quoted the BBC Strictly Come Dancing judge Len Goodman, who said when judging an unconvincing rumba that just because someone told him his pencil was a hammer, it did not change the fact that it really was a pencil.

She also referred to a Will Young pop video featuring a naked trans man walking down a street, claiming that if an elderly woman had done that she would have been thrown into a waste disposal unit.

Greer added: “Being a woman is a bit tricky. If you didn’t find your pants full of blood when you were 13 there’s something important about being a woman you don’t know. It’s not all cake and jam.”

More than 3,000 people signed a petition arguing that Greer should not be allowed to deliver her lecture on women in political and social life because her opinions on trans people were so offensive. She hinted she would stay away if the university could not guarantee that people would not throw things at her.

Uniformed police officers stood guard outside the lecture theatre and security officials guarded the doors inside, but in the end only about a dozen people turned up to protest peacefully. Greer told the audience that campaigners had been “trying to frighten me off”, but added: “Here I am.”

She did not mention the issue during her lecture, entitled Women & Power: the Lessons of the 20th Century, but during questions was asked about the controversy. Greer said: “They [trans people] are not my issue. It should be perfectly clear why not. I think 51% of the world’s population is enough for me to be going on with. I do agree that calling people names may add to their misery but it happens to old women every day.”

Referring to the Will Young video, Greer said: “Try doing that if you were a 76-year-old woman. They would throw a blanket over you. They would throw you in a waste disposal unit. People are intolerant.”

Greer said five women had approached her as she travelled to Cardiff to back her stance on trans women. “They said: ‘I’m so glad that someone is saying what we think. We don’t think that post-operative male transexuals are women but we are not allowed to say so’. I will say so because I don’t believe they are women. That’s not tantamount to calling them names. I also happen to believe that the surgery is unethical.”

When it was pointed out that trans people were being killed in the US because of their sexuality, Greer replied: “We have two women a week being murdered in England by their partners. They are not my fault and the transexuals in America aren’t my fault either ... If you want to turn me into a demon you have to have some evidence ... I don’t accept post-operative males as females.”

Protesters outside included present and former Cardiff University students who criticised the institution for paying Greer for the lecture. Mair Macey, a former Cardiff University student who now works for HMRC, said: “I really care about transgender people. Having Greer here reflects badly on the values of the university. There is no way she should be invited to give a distinguished lecture.”

Author Elwyn Way said: “We don’t think she should be given a platform like this and go unchallenged.” Way said trans people were suffering emotional and physical violence and needed to be protected rather than vilified.

Payton Quinn, who organised the demonstration, said Greer had made “incredibly inflammatory” remarks about trans women in the past. A flyer distributed by the protesters featured two Greer quotes from Guardian articles. In one she wrote: “Nowadays we are all likely to meet people who think they are women, have women’s names, and feminine clothes and lots of eyeshadow, who seem to us to be some kind of ghastly parody, though it isn’t polite to say so.”

The saga has caused a fierce debate about free speech and the practice of “no-platforming” speakers whose views might make them unpopular. Quinn said she was frustrated that the free speech issue was overshadowing what she saw as the more salient problem: Greer’s views.

Tickets for Greer’s free lecture were snapped up quickly. But Rachael Melhuish, women’s officer at the university’s students’ union, began a petition on change.org calling for the lecture to be halted, alleging that Greer had “demonstrated misogynistic views towards trans women, including continually misgendering trans women and denying the existence of transphobia altogether”.

Asked about the petition last month, Greer told the Guardian: “It strikes me as a bit of a put-up job really because I am not even going to talk about the issue that they are on about. What they are saying is that because I don’t think surgery will turn a man into a woman I should not be allowed to speak anywhere.”

She declined to give interviews before or after the lecture.

During a wide-ranging and generally very well received hour-long talk, Greer spoke about the suffragette movement, the “nightmare” of the corporate world, equal pay, systematic sexual abuse of vulnerable girls and abortion.

She paused when she spotted a microphone in the audience and demanded to know if the woman holding it was recording the lecture. The woman told her she was a helper and the microphone was to ensure that people could be heard during the question-and-answer session.

Greer explained that she had asked because she said she was being “pursued” by the Guardian over the revelation that in the 1970s she wrote a 30,000-word love letter to the writer Martin Amis.

The academic, who is objecting to the letter being published as a book, explained that she did not want its contents to be revealed because some of those mentioned in it were fathers and grandfathers. She said: “The last thing they need is a piece of Grier-ism from the 1970s.” She added: “It will all come out in the wash. I hope I’m dead by then.”

(5) Women-only Cambridge college to allow students who simply 'identify as female'

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/10/03/women-only-cambridge-college-allow-students-simply-identify/

Women-only Cambridge college to allow students who simply 'identify as female' for first time

 Germaine Greer has described  the decision as “ridiculous”

 Harry Yorke, online education editor  Camilla Turner, education editor  Sarah Wilson

3 OCTOBER 2017 • 7:24PM

A women-only Cambridge University college has changed its policy to allow any students who "identify" as female to apply.

Until this year, Murray Edwards college required all applicants to be “legally defined as female”. But now the college’s council has approved an update to its entry criteria, stating that it will accept any student “who at the point of application identifies as a woman”.

The college, whose alumni include Sue Perkins, Claudia Winkelman and Tilda Swinton, states on its website that “with so much gender inequality still in the world there is a role for a College able to focus on outstanding young women, their learning and skills for life."

The change was made after a motion on transgender was passed by the College Council, a group of academics and teaching fellows.

In a statement published after the vote, the council stated that it has “sympathy with the idea that gender is not binary” and that “narrow gender identities” are damaging to “wider society”.

Its statement adds: “In relation to current students, we consider each case on an individual basis, focusing on what is in the best interests of that individual, in full discussion with that student.

“Should the student decide that they would prefer to be in a mixed college if transitioning to male or if rejecting a binary gender category, the College would be fully supportive of a transfer.”

The decision has raised questions about the purpose of the College, which was founded to address gender imbalances at Cambridge University, which at the time had the lowest proportion of women undergraduates of any university in Britain.

Germaine Greer, a leading feminist and former lecturer at Newnham College, has described  the decision as “ridiculous”.

“It’s a silly situation, and I’m sure that Murray Edwards will have their own reasons,” she told The Daily Telegraph.

“But it’s a difficult relationship, having a transgender person in an all-female environment. “If [Murray Edwards] really don’t believe that gender is binary, then they really shouldn’t be a single sex college. Their position is ridiculous. The only sane thing for them to do is to cease discriminating on the basis of assigned gender of any kind.

“There are plenty of women who have served their time in women’s colleges, who are pretty whiskery, but nobody did a DNA test on them. But they had to live women’s lives - with all the disabilities that that entails.”

Dr Joanna Williams of the University of Kent said that the decision marked the “end of women-only spaces”.

“This college was set up several decades ago when things were very different for female students,” she said.

“If some women want to have a women-only space, if they choose to be there, they should have every right to do that.

“To then learn that you’re sharing your dormitory, your bathroom with someone who is biologically male is an infringement on your right to choose the right the educational environment you chose.”

Academics from the college defended the move, saying it does not challenge the College’s single-sex status but is a recognition of the fact that "how we define women is changing".

Juliet Foster, a senior tutor at Murray Edwards, said: “Our position is very clear: we want to be open to all outstanding young women, and we felt that society is changing and there is greater understanding of the complexities surrounding gender.

“We felt that was therefore in line with our values to accept all women, including transgender people who identify as female."

Dame Barbara Stocking, President of Murray Edwards, added: “Society is changing and there is now a greater understanding of the complexities of gender.

"In order that we remain true to our mission of being open to all outstanding young women we recognise that it is right for anyone who identifies as female, regardless of their born gender, to be able to apply to study with us."

Kate Litman, women’s officer at Murray Edwards, said that students are “thrilled” with the change of policy. “We recognise many women still experience environments where their achievements are not recognised or their voice is not heard,” she said.

“Murray Edwards fosters an environment which celebrates women and encourages us to reach our potential, and it is absolutely right that all women should have the chance to study here, no matter what gender they were assigned at birth."

Celia Macleod, chair of the Gender Identity Research and Education Society (GIRES), a charity that supports people who are transgender or do not conform to a particular gender, said she welcomes the decision “to respect and support all gender diverse people”.

Murray Edwards, which was founded in 1954 and used to be called New Hall, is one of three all-women’s colleges at Cambridge University and is the first to make such a change to its admissions policy.

At the university’s other women-only colleges, Newnham and Lucy Cavendish, any application must be recognised under the Gender Recognition Act.

(6) Germaine Greer denounces female-only Cambridge college for admitting trans women

https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/germaine-greer-slams-female-only-13729289

Germaine Greer slams female-only Cambridge college for admitting trans women

But Murray Edwards College has staunchly defended its decision

ByJasmine Watkiss

21:09, 6 OCT 2017

Germaine Greer has denounced a female-only Cambridge University college for accepting transgender women as students.

Founded as a single-sex college in 1954, Murray Edwards College will now allow any person who identifies as a woman to study at the college.

Regardless of the gender on their birth certificate, any student who publicly identifies as a woman is covered by the new rules.

The college is the alma mater of many famous women, including Sue Perkins, Claudia Winkleman and Tilda Swinton.

Pink News reported that since the Equality Act 2010, it has been illegal to demand proof of gender identity from a trans person where you would not require it from a cisgendered person.

This essentially means all single-sex institutions must follow these rules - but few actually have a policy in place.

But Germaine Greer – who believes post-operative transgender women are not women – has criticised the reform and called Murray Edwards' position "ridiculous".

In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, she said: "It’s a silly situation, and I’m sure Murray Edwards will have their own reasons.

"But it’s a difficult relationship, having a transgender person in an all-female environment.

"If [Murray Edwards] really don’t believe that gender is binary, then they really shouldn’t be a single sex college.

"Their position is ridiculous. The only sane thing for them to do is to cease discriminating on the basis of assigned gender of any kind.

"There are plenty of women who have served their time in women’s colleges, who are pretty whiskery, but nobody did a DNA test on them.

"But they had to live women’s lives – with all the disabilities that that entails."

Greer has previously spoken about "man’s delusion that he is female", saying trans women are "some kind of ghastly parody" that will never be women because they do not know what it’s like to have a "big, hairy, smelly vagina".

President of Murray Edwards Dame Barbara Stocking has staunchly defended the policy change.

She said: "We are a college that is open to all outstanding young women and so it is absolutely right, both legally and within our set of values, for anyone who identifies as female to be able to apply to study with us.

"Society is changing and there is now a greater understanding of the complexities of gender."

An official statement by Murray Edwards said existing Cambridge students will also be permitted to move into the college if they transition to female while there.

It reads: "Many of us within the college have sympathy with the idea that gender is not binary, and have concerns that narrow gender identities and the expectations associated with them are damaging both to individuals and to wider society.

READ MORE Police called to man lying on Cambridge University college's lawn "The college is also supportive of students who do not wish to define themselves as either female or male.

"At the admissions level, we will consider any student who, at the point of application, identifies as female and, where they have been identified as male at birth, has taken steps to live in the female gender (or has been legally recognised as female via the Gender Recognition Act 2004).

"Similarly, just as we would consider any other female student seeking to transfer to this college during their degree, we would consider any student who, at the point of requesting the transfer, identifies as female.

"Should the student decide that they would prefer to be in a mixed college if transitioning to male or if rejecting a binary gender category, the college would be fully supportive of a transfer and do all that was possible to bring one about."

The new rules will also allow students who transition to male to move to mixed colleges.

(7) Germaine Greer can no longer be called a feminist, for rejecting Trans women

https://www.varsity.co.uk/comment/13829

Germaine Greer can no longer be called a feminist

Eve Hodgson argues that the exclusionary views of this once-prolific voice of second-wave radical feminism should result in her exclusion from the movement

by Eve Hodgson

Thursday October 26 2017, 10:58pm

“Ridiculous.”

That was Germaine Greer’s assessment of Murray Edwards’s new, widely-applauded policy to allow students who identify as female into their single-sex college. Considering she is considered a pioneer of second-wave radical feminism, she is doing little to identify herself with the movement now.

Her theories about transgender people have always been problematic, giving voice to an incredibly harmful, complex strand of modern feminism: what’s become known as TERF (that is, trans-exclusionary radical feminism). She refuses to discuss trans people using their proper pronouns. She says that “just because you lop off your dick… doesn’t make you a fucking woman”, and that any “man” who does that is “inflicting an extraordinary act of violence on himself”.

“Greer is hurting what she dedicated her academic life to because of her own bigoted beliefs”

She also claims to know the minds of people who she clearly has no sympathy with, and no desire to understand. In The Whole Woman, she claims that the demand for male-to-female sex change operations would change overnight if a uterus and ovary transplant was made a compulsory element of the procedure.

These comments are morally wrong. They are socially exclusive, and they rail against what modern radical feminism should, and mostly does, look like.

Any feminist who claims relevance now has to believe in intersectionality. To ignore the compounded struggle that non-white women, or poor women, or LGBTQ+ women face is to discredit your feminism. If you are willing to drown out those voices with your own privilege, you cannot genuinely claim to care about the advancement of women.

By incorporating and even amplifying such discriminatory voices in a movement that is (at least currently) centred on inclusivity and understanding, feminism itself suffers. Greer is hurting what she dedicated her academic life to because of her own bigoted beliefs.

Radical feminism sprang up because women on the left hated the misogyny of their male peers, being relegated to administrative work as well as suffering sexual harassment. They split and started a movement for themselves. Do we really want to drive LGBTQ+ women away from feminism because they do not believe they are truly wanted and respected here?

Obviously, the answer to that is no. But it’s not so obvious when ‘TERFs’ – feminists like Greer – say what they say from platforms of power.

Greer cannot be seen as a force for progressive good any longer. Second wave feminism was all about changing attitudes. Society needed to look at the way it treated women, but LGBTQ+ women were not an accepted public presence then. They are more so now. Greer is utterly stubborn in her refusal to admit that society might be progressing to a point well beyond her comfort zone. The sad fact is that feminism has outgrown one of its pivotal thinkers.

Cambridge women react to Murray Edwards policy change

Feminism that excludes any women – including those who have not lived their whole lives as women – cannot be genuinely progressive. It is prioritising the wants and comfort of some women over the needs of others, and that defeats the whole purpose. All women’s experiences are valid. All women’s experiences deserve a voice. Germaine Greer was that voice for a time, and, if she wanted to, she could continue to be. If she interrogated herself and her values as she rightly demanded the patriarchy be interrogated, perhaps she would.

Trans women have enough to deal with without the people who are supposed to be standing with them, making space for them, spewing bigotry. In the US, trans women are 4.3 times more likely to be murdered than cis women (those whose gender matches the sex they were given at birth). It isn’t a matter of academics: it’s a matter of life or death.

She is refusing to let trans people get on with their lives, including the opportunity to come to this university and feel safe. To pick on trans women because they interfere with a gender theory that was developed more than forty years ago is to be incredibly arrogant, not to mention ignorant about social change.

Greer is now just an old, white woman who has forced herself into exile. Her comments are irreparably damaging, reflecting a total lack of regard for trans lives. Thinking what she thinks, she cannot be a prominent feminist any longer. She no longer stands for the same things we do

-- 
Peter Myers
http://mailstar.net/index.html