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March 31, 2009
Police Called in to Impose Reverence for Freakazoids
Behold the latest hate crime inflicted upon the oppressed transgendered community:
The question-and-answer session had started in unremarkable fashion.
As the 50 members of the public at the police liaison meeting were handed their electronic handsets to take part in a survey, an official told them: 'Let's start with an easy question to get us going.
'Press A if you're male or B if you're female.'
But it seems nothing is ever that simple. Someone asked: 'What if you're transgendered?'
'You could press A and B together,' quipped Conservative councillor Jonathan Yardley.
How insensitive. But not to worry: Yardley was attended to by the police for this thought crime.
A complaint was made — and as a result, he was spoken to by police for his ' homophobic' remark.
Yesterday, the 48-year-old councillor said: 'I went to meet a sergeant and an inspector who told me what I said could be homophobic and started giving me advice on what sort of humour I should engage in.
'They put me through the mill and asked me to confirm what I'd said and told me that a complaint had been made and I could be prosecuted.
Yardley wasn't arrested this time. But he had better remember that living under totalitarian moonbattery is no laughing matter.
Hat tip: Track-A-'Crat.
Posted by Van Helsing at March 31, 2009 7:32 AM
Comments
Homophobic? I thought being transgendered doesn't necessarily mean the person is gay. The brain police should be dispatched to this reporter's desk immediately!
Posted by: forest at March 31, 2009 7:38 AM
Morons. Seriously, that's the same kind of joke Carlos Mancia, Howard Stern, George Carlin, or a hundred other comedians would make. If people are gay, that's their business. However, what's the world coming to if you can't make fun of the oddness of someone who isn't exactly female or male anymore? They can make fun of fat people, they can make fun of people with moles, but heaven forbid you make fun of a transgendered person. Holy moley! There goes the planet.
Posted by: Paul H at March 31, 2009 7:51 AM
If there were two options, A or B, that would make him Hetero-phobic, not homo-phobic, and since the option to press both was given, he had all options covered, unless there is some other type of sex a person can be besides male, female, and both.
Posted by: Eric at March 31, 2009 7:57 AM
The scary part is the use of police to regulate speech. No First Amendment anywhere in Europe, so what speech constitutes a crime depends on what the government doesn't want you to say. And that's scary.
The Europeans get it wrong yet again. They go too far in one direction and make people into lampshades, then they overreact and go too far the other way, and suppress even saying something against another group. How about we split the difference: you can say what you like about another group, but can't march them into gas chambers? Sound reasonable?
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 31, 2009 8:38 AM
I guess nuts are just more sensitive than normal people.
Posted by: Judith M. at March 31, 2009 8:40 AM
How does one not know if one is male or female?
Posted by: Scaramouche at March 31, 2009 9:28 AM
The official said: "Let's start with an easy question to get us going." Isn't that condescending hate speech toward the transgendered person who found the question difficult to answer?
Perhaps the person who raised the question isn't transgendered - that would be an insensitive quip, deserving of punishment as well.
Posted by: Alan at March 31, 2009 10:25 AM
Forget BIG BROTHER here comes BIG SISTER
Posted by: SPURWING PLOVER at March 31, 2009 11:21 AM
Geez, with that kind of reaction they would execute me for what I would have said.
Posted by: single stack at March 31, 2009 12:01 PM
I was offended by the word, 'homophobic'.
To be clear, gender confusion has no threat over those with 'gender clarity' (genetic or imagined).
So rather than referring to 'fear of homosexuals', let's just call it 'prejudice' since that's what we mean. You know, instead of making up new words for each state of victimhood that comes along.
In short: I am not afraid; I am annoyed.
Posted by: Dan Oblak at March 31, 2009 12:38 PM
Moonbattery means being compelled to pretend that a man who pays a doctor to mutilate him is a woman and that a women who takes drugs that let her grow a beard is a man. Refusal to go along with this fiction is now apparently "hate". When being confused over something so fundamental as one's own gender becomes a protected right, sanity becomes a crime. Encouraging delusions helps no one.
Posted by: Beef at March 31, 2009 1:42 PM
From a dictionary in a dimention that makes sence:
LIBERAL. n. Person who shows signs of the irrational fear that somewhere in the world, there people who don't need their "help".
Posted by: KHarn at March 31, 2009 2:17 PM
I've linked to your post from Blogwatch Thought Police
Posted by: Wayne from Jeremiah Films at March 31, 2009 2:20 PM
That a police agency would invest so much power in a twistoid is the really scary thing.
This means that the official yet unstated policy of this agency is to walk on eggshells, do not offend and lower your eyes with due respect when in the presence of one of the special people.
Wow. This must be like having a job selling ballet tutus to the irritable obese. Rough gig.
Maybe the constables on patrol should reassess how much pride their paychecks can buy.
Posted by: Fiberal at March 31, 2009 6:46 PM
Forget BIG BROTHER here comes BIG SISTER
Posted by: SPURWING PLOVER at March 31, 2009 11:21 AM
Your comment may prove prophetic...
Posted by: Evil Monk at March 31, 2009 10:05 PM
Would that Big Sister be the one that jumps around a room, plunging giant needels into your body and tossing trash at your head.
Oh, wait, I just described Planed Parenthood.
Posted by: Big_Daddy at April 1, 2009 9:12 AM
