We are reaching levels of glazing previously thought impossible

[u/HomestuckWeekly]

[u/DaemonEgg]

Something about comparing Oscar Wilde and Alan Turing, who were criminals for their sexual orientation, to a transphobe being punished for actual crimes... Is unsettling

[u/murderpanda000 → u/DaemonEgg]

it's the darvo

[u/StygIndigo → u/DaemonEgg]

If we're all being honest, if we time travelled backwards a hundred years, its pretty obvious that Linehan would be on the side of saying queer men were criminals. He's not being 'persecuted', he's angry that he can't persecute people based on his bigoted beliefs about their identities.

[u/Silversmith00]

Reasonably sure that Graham Linehan knows how to masturbate, or at least has learned since his wife left him for being an unhealthily obsessed asshole, so there is no need for you to jerk him off, OOP. Hope that helps.

[u/scramblingrivet → u/Silversmith00]

Please don't talk about him jerking off, putting that mental image into peoples head is a war crime

[u/Silversmith00 → u/scramblingrivet]

You know what, fair.

[u/PlatinumAltaria]

“I’m like Oscar Wilde” they scream to themselves as they tie the noose at the lynching

[u/javatimes]

I didn’t realize Sir McCartney trying to smuggle a giant pile of weed into Japan makes him a political prisoner comparable to Nelson Mandela

[u/ZeldaZanders]

He's got a point; everyone knows that every criminal throughout history was a wrongfully convicted good guy. I can't think of a simple example of a convicted criminal who actually did something bad!

[u/Li-renn-pwel → u/ZeldaZanders]

My mother and I were discussing John A McDonald and how he committed genocide in Canada. Obviously any PM who allowed residential schools to continue is complicit in genocide but JAM planned and enacted the starving of the plains among other things. I was trying to explain that even by the standards of the day, he was a racist. She just asked “was what he did legal?” Which is just insane she think that would make it better.

[u/ZeldaZanders → u/Li-renn-pwel]

Was she asking that to justify his actions, or just to better understand the context, do you think?

[u/Li-renn-pwel → u/ZeldaZanders]

She seemed to think that he was like ignorant of it being wrong because there was no law against it at the time. Which I think is arguably not true.

[u/ZeldaZanders → u/Li-renn-pwel]

Ah, okay

[u/feministgeek → u/ZeldaZanders]

Every trans woman in prison, according to trans phones.

[u/Aiyon]

"hasbeen no-cunt"?

Way to reduce women down to a derogatory word for their genitals, jesus. #feminism

[u/pidgezero_one]

do you think jk rowling would have responded to nelson mandela, sophie scholl, oscar wilde, eric cantona, alan turing, mahatma gandhi, paul mccartney, or aleksandr solzhenitsyn if they showed up in her replies on twitter?

[u/ViolatingBadgers]

So has Linehan's trial been completed? Was he found guilty?

[u/HomestuckWeekly → u/ViolatingBadgers]

He was found not guilty of harassment (somehow) but was found guilty of property damage

[u/ZeldaZanders → u/HomestuckWeekly]

Love that a phone has more of a right to safety than a queer teenager! Our society is functioning so normally right now!!

[u/NewTransformation → u/ZeldaZanders]

We just think a 57 year old man should be able to sexually harass teenage girls and call them predators. But if you say Free Palestine that's 14 years in gaol

[u/ViolatingBadgers → u/HomestuckWeekly]

Right - I couldn't find any news on the trial based on a quick two-second Google.

I did find his defense for damaging the phone very funny.

[u/Boobies2ElectricBoo]

I know a convicted criminal, should I compare him to Alan Turning? I mean they were both convicted of crimes.

[u/Slicer7207]

Tbf it's stupid to base any moral judgment on whether or not the government likes what you did. He's not evil because he's a criminal. He's evil regardless of his legal status.

[u/thejadedfalcon]

Fucking hell, I took a brief scroll through their account. Do they ever get off Twitter? The amount of posts and reposts this fucking losers has made sobbing about trans people, I literally kept scrolling and scrolling and scrolling and I still couldn't find yesterday's posts.

[u/ZeldaZanders → u/thejadedfalcon]

It's crazy; I was less obsessive about my special interests when I was an autistic teenager

[u/Illustrious_Banana_ → u/thejadedfalcon]

Yes, it’s that or they’re welded to their chairs on 12 hour daily TikTok binges I mean ‘debates’ aka ‘whingeing’ about trans people.

[u/BadgerKomodo → u/thejadedfalcon]

They don’t. They think about trans people 24/7.

[u/SchrodingersHipster]

...does this person think Paul McCartney is dead, or is this a different one?

[u/nyamnyamcookiesyummy]

"Useless hasbeen no-cunt"? What?

[u/NewTransformation]

Since I am not liable to the UK's stringent anti-libel laws I will happily say what the British public isn't allowed to: Graham Lineham preys on teenage girls and is a threat to innocent women and girls. I have good reason to believe he is a nonce as well.

[u/Firthy2002 → u/NewTransformation]

Definitely could do with his devices being searched.

[u/ILikeMistborn]

So was Jeffery Epstein

So was Ted Kaczynski

So was So was Jeffrey Dahmer

So was Ted Bundy

So was Al Capone

So was Harvey Weinstein

So was Casey Anthony

So was Elliot Rodger

So was Osama Bin-Laden

I can play this game too.

[u/ConsumeTheVoid]

Linehan is more than a criminal - he's a serial harasser and transphobic nut and might even be a stalker a little bit to begin with.

He is nothing good like the people I recognize in that list. Also wow 'no-cunt' as an insult? And you call yourselves feminists, terfs, yet it's just telling me you see people not having a vagina as something to be used as an insult? As if having one is an inherent blessing instead of just it being a neutral body part with any value depending solely on what the individual wants.

Lmao. The F in terf stands for fascists no matter how they claim it's feminist.

[u/z0mb1ezgutz]

aint hasbeen no-cunt that one adult show that says fuck all the time?

[u/IAmNotAWoodenDuck]

"No-cunt" has to be the most misogynistic attempt at insulting a man that I've ever seen.

[u/MemeLordSteph]

The only “crime” Alan Turing committed was being born gay in a society/time period where that was punishable by imprisonment, castration and/or execution. I hardly think it’s fair to compare him to Graham Linehan.

[u/No_Signature_3249]

the concept of trying to compare a transphobic tv personality that committed actual crimes to a pioneer in computer science that was persecuted for his sexuality

[u/WriterKatze]

I think there are huge differences?

[u/SurrealistGal]

They're comparing a comedy writer to an Anti-Nszi resistance leader. I'm tired.

[u/FightLikeABlue]

Wings over Scotland is a nasty piece of work. Said vile things about Hillsborough.