Then there's the response of the authorities in London, which is troubling. Even if we were going by ideal American standards of free speech, a released felon and obvious basket case openly advocating violence would be pushing it. And Britain doesn't have those standards, but at best a notion of less repression being better.
So Baker is being protected and the terven are, for the most part, not. So who's making this call, and on whose behalf? Who benefits? Questions that are going to keep arising.
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Oh yes, from the original Dr. Who. :) - or should I say Tom Baker as the Doctor.
Once again I have to imagine what if the shoe were on the other foot? What if a woman holding a bullhorn shouted 'If you see a trans punch him in the face' - they're often easier to identify than terfs. I wonder what the reaction of the police would be in that case.
Obviously the guy is deranged and already has a history of having acted out his insane tendencies. Is it that he has to be caught actually doing violence to someone before he gets taken away again? I really don't know at this point. Of course nobody should listen to him but at the very least you'd hope someone in the club would denounce him, or maybe just take away the bullhorn.
There's also Sarah Jane Smith, the reporter who traveled with the Doctor when Tom first stepped into the role.
It should be obvious that no one should be out in the street punching other people in the face (outside of self defense/defense of others at least) and that if anyone calls for punching another group en masse then that person is in the wrong. Should be obvious but apparently isn't.
When your cause is real to you and the lives of other people aren't then you'll be willing to go pretty far in sacrificing the latter for the former. That's the condition a lot of activists and their academic backers are in now. And it's a position that brings a lot of worldly honors with it. And the cause is, in and of itself, rather hostile to normies.
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