It's Coming to America!

The longer I live, the more convinced I'm becoming that not only is liberalism a mental disorder - thank you, Michael Savage, for coining that phrase - it is what's becoming the newest form of fascism that's becoming extremely dangerous.

An article in the Daily Caller today covers how a female employee in Great Britain was fired from her job and lost her plea to the country's employment tribunal. When J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, came to the woman's defense on social media, she's come under attack for doing so by hoards of responders.

What is most incredible and disturbing is the fascistic reasoning used in the tribunal's response to denying her right to have an opposing view.

The tribunal rejected her claim. In a lengthy judgment issued on Dec. 18, Judge James Tayler ruled that her view is “not worthy of respect in a democratic society,” calling it “absolutist” and “incompatible with human dignity and fundamental rights of others.”

What’s more, Tayler said Forstater’s views are not protected as a “philosophical belief” under the Equality Act 2010, even though “religion or belief” is one of the nine categories protected in the law. The Equality Act is the basis of anti-discrimination law in Great Britain.

As one who reads the full article will learn, Nicole Russel the author of the article states:

This case makes clear what had previously been more ambiguous: British law no longer protects speech that goes against progressive sexual orthodoxy, because said speech now violates a person’s “dignity.”

Russel, aptly points out at the end of the article the following:

Thankfully in the U.S., the First Amendment remains strong enough to protect the kind of speech Forstater has been penalized for in the U.K. But if “gender identity” is added as a protected class to federal civil rights law—as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the left have pushed for, and passed in the House—our system would move in the same grim direction as the U.K.

Protecting marginalized groups from blatant discrimination is not at issue here. We all agree that is wrong. But penalizing people who believe in only two sexes—as we all did until a few short years ago—is an affront to the most rights of human beings: to have free thoughts, and to be able to speak them.

What? I don't agree, Nicole, as the posting of a comment under the piece makes the interesting point:

‘We all agree that is wrong.’
Since I don't agree, that invalidates your truism.
I think the right of discrimination is bound up with freedom of association, free speech, and in the end, with natural law.
If I’m a white business man, I have the natural freedom to only hire White men, only cater to white men, and in short, to associate with only those people I desire to associate with, and no government tyranny can remove that right to discriminate from me.
Same is true if you’re black, lesbian, or a black lesbian. The only entity not allowed by law to discriminate is THE GOVERNMENT. This is about We The People > Government.
The instant you change that inequality sign in the other direction you have tyranny, plain and simple.
I’m ready to defend discrimination. To do otherwise is simply to cede more power to government and to those who wish to use government to its own ends.
Stop retreating.

 I'm in complete agreement with this individual's point. Well said!