Comments by "Lewis Smith" (@lewissmith350) on "The Rest Is Politics" channel.

  1. ​But he clearly presents a angle, and just proceeds to put all the things, and views which support his view. Then he presens the alternative view from some daft perspective, often interviewing someone representing that side, who is not a expert. Criticising sone beside the point comments they make, and acting like his conclusion is the Moses on the mountain moment. Yes it's ok to do that on stuff I agree with him on, but it gives you a new perspective when you know he is wrong, and on this issue he is clearly wrong. I love these top us comic shows, but in reality, we should not act like they are unbiased investigate reports, they are comics pushing a view from one side. It's fun when I agree, like Colbert mocking trump, but when you realise they are wrong, like on this issue, , it's bad.. ​ @N6TH9N 
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  2. ​ @N6TH9N also I don't like it how he pretend to be a wimp for comic effect, when he is not.
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  3. ​ @N6TH9N it's a pop up, simplified view of the subject from one angle. That's ok, but it's annoying when he does it for the view you don't support. He is a great comic though, and has interesting stuff, though one sided.
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  4. ​​ @N6TH9N It certainly is not compassionate to call opponents bigots, and hateful, to malign and label them and try to cancel those as trans rights activists do about those who speak up on this subject. It was not compassionate to ignore the concerns of female athletes, to have their medals and records taken by people who it was perfectly fair to question the legitimacy of were taking part. There were even threats to expel female athletes from college for criticising the idea that biological males, who already have a richer more watched sport, competing in women's sports. Clearly he gave just a one sided orwellian view of the argument. Watch interviews with Riley Gaines and you will see what she had to deal with. When some female athletes in US college system, stated that they did not make the idea of intact biological males and dressing in their, dressing rooms, instead of thinking about the logic of this, realising that this could be intimidating to a large number of women, the ridiculous college elite decided that they should be seeking counseling, there was no attempt to compassion and decency towards these women, indeed just like happened to JK Rowling Catherine stock and Helen Joyce, these women were treated like the unimportant proles, underlined by how when Riley games finished an equal position with Leah Thomas in time, they gave the award to Leah Thomas, just like how the second Caitlyn Jenner announced they were a woman, they were given the award of women of the year, as if there were no biological woman who had done anything that year. And the arrogant macho nature of trans rights activists, calling people the most horrible names, dismissing them in dehumanising manners, as underlined by the one-sided nature of the John Oliver show. In Britain we have a show called The One show, his soul could be called the one-sided show.
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  5. ​ @mrhobsonschoice she is not backed by Putin, dont be ridiculous. She is a beloved children's author, who has won polls across the world on her popularity. Edinburgh and London for the past couple of decades have revealed in the cash she brings their tourist industry. Both Keir stamer and kemi badenoch refuse to criticize her. Her views are that of a left leaning sensible social democrat. The only thing she digressed from late 2010s political thought on, was the trans issue, and for that, she was smeared on mass by a orwellian hate campaign. If she had been a nobody, it would have worked. But people knew who she is, and knew she is not far right. So if anything the bullying attempts to cancel her, just gave her strength, like a star trek creature, growing from the Lazer beans the enterprise fired at it. JK Rowling is a passionate defender of women's rights, and the ludicrous attempt to frame her as anything other than that has failed.
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  6. ​​ @someonesomeone25 in most respects we live in a post-racial society, not many people I know would like there to be white people's things and black people things. Whereas we still as a society believe in women's safeguarding , and that makes a whole lot of sense, when you think about the fact of the relations between men and women. So the two things are completely different.
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  7. I don't pay much credence to the John Oliver side, as he is still one sided on this topic. He wants cleaned the puberty blockers can be reversed, which sounds like how on Earth could that possibly be true and it's a complicated thing is puberty. And in terms of sports, biological males have records better than the biological woman.
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  8. ​ @porphura4448 why are you wasting energy on it and thinking about it if it is so not important.
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  9. Surely we should be more tolerant of her fears you know, if a woman felt threatened by me, I would feel awful I would feel unhappy, I wouldn't call her a bigot, I would try to understand why she feels my behaviour or the way I am threatens her. That's right one of the things I do, is I never walk down an alleyway after a woman has gone down it. There is loads of behaviour we as men do, so we don't make women feel uncomfortable. Part of tolerance is also respecting, the fears and rights of women in our society, it's not bigoted to understand those fears, we should be nice to trans people, just because he has a perfectly understandable fear of men, because I've seen many situations where there was proved to be quite a sensible fear. Like a few days ago I saw these biological males in their thirties saying rude things about women on the train, and I saw one of the women just moved to another carriage, she was a being her instinct which was to be quite fearful of those biological males, and by the look on her face, it was quite a strong fear. And in reality she was the best person to protect herself her fear and her instinct, was the best form of protection. With it never call women bigots, for listening to their instincts, because in reality of biological males, just these guys showed, don't have the same spidey senses that the average biological woman has.
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  10. ​ @assses-3216 give a example of where she behaved as you say. My interpretation was that she was chosen as an example, so that everybody would feel threatened, to be afraid of agreeing with her opinions. In reality the attempt to cancel her, was a terrible choice and interesting emboldened herself and people who agreed with her. Can you give me an example of where the acted in the way you say, and also why should JK Rowling not block anybody she feels like, she can block whoever she wants, just like you can say I'm not going to talk to this person or that person. She was the one being misrepresented, I remember countless times people would say what did she say that was so terrible, and nobody would be able to give a quotation of what she actually said.
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  11. Ghosts
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  12. That's not fair, she is clearly left wing. She has traditionally backed labour, and remain. She backed the Iranian women protestors, and opposez trump. She even weighed in on Scottish independence , which I think upset some people, which I think was silly for such a proudly civil movement. It is not the same, to have segregation in terms of race for toilets, for to have separate bathrooms for men and women. There is no sensible safeguarding reason to have separate toilets for white and black people. But it is sensible to have different public toilets for men and women, for all sorts of safeguarding reasons. Maybe there is a argument for unisex in some situations, but not all. Also she does but demand people conform to certain womenhood looks. She like most gender critical people believe a woman can be short, or tall, a secretary or anything, even in the army, but just by having short hair or doing a macho job it does not make you a different gender. Like her famous quote, dress how they like, call themselves what they like, and then she said, a person born a biological male,is still man whether they wear a three piece suit or a flowery 👗 dress. So no, she does not believe in gender stereotypes, I mean she even had a male pen name, and has female characters like Hermione be the heroes. Also the debate she had about the boxers was a complex topic as Richard Dawkins talks.
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  13. A woman from the Commonwealth of Independent states.
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  14. My last comment here, but if that is so, what's the problem with biological males l to identify as women using men's toilets. If there is no problem we could just carry on as the law here say.
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  15. ​​ @RobThomson-x8g you mean the people who did nothing about it, as they were concerned about their own hides. Like a person in the comment section here, who did nothing about it. Where was society.
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  16. ​​ @RobThomson-x8g that is exactly why this happened, as the people in society who should have protected those people, did not want to act to protect those children. Just like happened in the Jimmy Saville case. Thank the Lord we had people like JK Rowling and Helen Joyce noticing the potential and actual abused from self id, stamping out it's most extreme elements, if it were not for heroes like JK rowling, campaigning despite orwellian hate campaigns v them, against intact biological males, convicted of the worst crimes against women being put in women's prison cells, then that horrific dystopian act would have still been occurring. These two ladies made sacrifices against a idealogy of great power, if only the people who knew what was going on in Rochdale, but did nothing about it, who then try and blame everyone else for it, had jk rowlings sense of moral goodness. She deserves a nobel prize.
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  17. ​ @erroreliminator2.076 neanderthals knew what a woman is, and modern homosapiens.
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  18. Interesting show, interesting stuff.
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  19. But what if they only won five votes, then it would not be good for democracy as then they would be the least popular party.
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  20. But people like JK Rowling don't feel there is a difference between biological males who identify as men, and biological males who identify as women, they often talk of statistics, that indicate and show that there is some foundation to their belief there, that male aggression is biologicals. Indeed in Scotland, one of my relatives friends, was r@ped by the trans butcher, so it's hardly like they are never a threat.
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  21. But surely it's just about accepting biological sex exists, we should be nice to trans people, but we should not ignore the glaring reality that biological gender exists.
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  22. No sane person denied that. The question is the categorization of biological males who identify as women. They are still human beings whether you think they need be defined in the man or woman categories.
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  23. Nobody denies the trans people are human beings, the debate is purely about whether you categorise trans people according to their biological sex, what about the gender they wish to be seen as. But it does not stop them being human beings whatever position you have of which group they should be categorised in, whether that would be man or woman.
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  24. Are you saying people who are not trans are not human beings, are they all human beans.
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  25. And Alistair Campbell statement, about the horrible fear he has, and well done him for saying he has this fear, that biological males who identify as women, trans women, may be beaten up in men's toilets. Well surely that is admitting that men are more aggressive than women. Why is it a flat out statement that biological males identify as women shouldn't be in men's toilets because men are so aggressive, where is it ok then to put certain biological males in women's toilets, is there a fear then biological woman could be beaten up by these biological males, who identify as women. The stats as far as I am aware, don't indicate that biological males who identify as women become women in every way, the criminal statistics indicate that trans women are closer to what you would call cis men in many crime statistics, than to cis wome. It doesn't change because they identify as a different gender. If you perceive yourself to be a different gender, you are still likely to have statistically the same threats and danger towards women as if you identified as what you were observed at birth as. That's not me being hateful, that's just an observed reality. We should be tolerant and kind to trans people, but just to ignore the fears of those women, to me just seems to be kind of I don't get it, surely you can genuinely tolerant and understanding towards the fears of those women. I don't understand this kind of just ignoring those fears.
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  26. People like JK Rowling, believe that a biological male who has gone through all these procedures, and some of whom are trans but have not gone through these procedures, are still biological males. And there is a case for believing that belief. They believe that male aggression is still male aggression whether that male identifies as a woman or identified as a man, when you understand it from that point of view you become more tolerant of their concerns. We should be nice to trans people but also understand the fears of these women who have these perfectly understandable evolutionarily created fears.
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  27. The replies are for the rest of us, it would send any normal person insane to read abuse all the time, very important to ignore that.
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  28. Most people who believe biological sex exists, absolutely accept that there are people who are trans who want to identify as the opposite gender, that is just a reasonable debate about how this affects other things. We should be nice to trans people, but we can still debate the nuances of how a society functions where we know that biological males pose, safeguarding threats to biological females,
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  29. Just stop using the terrible toxic language.
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  30. ​ @calumlambert is there really such a thing as a female brain and a male brain. Surely if there is, why do stats for trans women on many things, have a closer comparison to biological males than to biological females. Surely all it is, is some biological males perceived themselves to be women, and yes some will have more feminine traits than most other biological males, but equally some biological males who perceive they are women, actually have much less feminity than that. As shown by the trans rights protests a week ago, where many were holding aggressive banners with dehumanizing threatening terms towards what they dismissively call terfs. I am not sure from my experiences that the fact someone perceived themselves to be the gender of the opposite sex, makes them have a women's brain, because in my experience they usually seem more masculine in persona before transition than feminine, and a lot of stats involving male female safeguarding indicate that as well.
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  31. Most people just spend their time discussing the exact tactical position of a specific player in the premiership football match, I mean I like football, but this is a better more important interest, the many of the things people use their time on.
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  32. ​​ @candidbowyer4625 but that would result in horrific life ending injuries for the feather weights, that would be horrible beyond belief. It is a good thing we have good people protecting the weak from the bullies and strong.
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  33. 😂😂
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  34. And surely in terms of free speech laws, Mr trump surely wants South Africa to have the same free speech laws as Britain has. I said how we protect ethnic minorities.
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  35. I hope they are not too tough on immigration. But yes I cannot see why they can't stop these boats, it does not make much sense to me, surely it would be easy enough.. what I found amazing, is it spending money on a Salem seekers in Britain is supposedly part of the foreign aid budget, when really it is just spending a lot of money on hotels in Britain.
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  36. ​ @MrRailjunkie that is unfair and toxic to say. The truth is gender critical people think we should be Nice to trans people, but acknowledge biological sex exists. It is highly toxic to call people bigots and fascist just as they don't absolutely agree with your line. It is not fascist to like Robert Winston, accept biological sex exists.
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  37. ​​​​​​​ @mrvenom88 but surely every death is a tragedy, we should not be excusing horrible events on the altar of ultra individualusm. For a group who claims trans people are marginalized, and go on about suicides, and all that, your side seem as callous as the Russian guy in Rocky, but it is a very aggressive macho unpleasant movement. Which is why it lost, and good thing that it lost so massively also.
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  38. ​ @mrvenom88 that is a typical toxic trans rights view. Not caring about the lives of boxers, in a way reminiscent of the baddy in the rocky movies, as what matters more is a religious style obsession of supporting gender identity over biological reality. it's why most people see self id idealogy as uncaring and unpersuasive.
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  39. ​ @EmmaLaBunn We do have a society that has safeguarding rules, and rightfully so. We are a post-racial society, so rightly we do not have Asian people's toilets, black people's toilets, and white people's toilets. But we do it set the importance of biological sex gender in human relationships. Should we have toilets for women and toilets for men. We could decide that we don't but we do because of safeguarding rules. Biological sex is something with regarded as important, and no wonder when you see the statistics of threats of men towards women, but rightly we do not see your race background as important in that regards. The intelligent centrist position, is to accept biological sex exists.
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  40. ​ @deathmetalmusicals6759 I am not saying anything like that, it's not for me to decide the law on who uses women's toilets. Just like I would never dare criticise a woman for saying biological sex exists. But there was an attempt to cancel her and she was fired from university for her opinions. The attempt to stifle her and censor her may have failed, but only because she stood up to the oppression. As I say it is not for me to decide the law, on who uses women's toilets.
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  41. ​​​ @N6TH9N John Oliver is an embarrassment on this issue, he once said puberty blockers are reversible, and did it in his typical aggressive shouting manner, when how could that even possibly be true, it makes no sense whatsoever. Once he claimed on the Stephen Colbert show that the English fourth division is a amateur league, when they are paid five times the average wage, just as he could not be bothered explaining the facts, and he is always acting like if he were a wimpy coward, when talking about himself in self depreciating ways, when he would be nowhere near where he is if that were true. For some unknown reason him and John Stewart have decided to support trans women in women's sports, and to me bring the English fourth division is amateur, for the sake of a argument, style logic to this debate. No matter how loud John Oliver shouts at the top of his voice, this year's at the end of his tether, that biological males have no advantage over biological women in sports, even though the male record is ahead of the female record in every sport I know of, it does not make it so, and injecting the biological males with chemicals to make them specifically weaker, at a specific rate to make them just less muscular enough to compete with less muscular women, I mean that's just like using drugs to compete really. And in all honesty anyway, if you were born a biological male, you are on average for a little bit taller than if you had been born a biological female, so even from the app that you're getting the advantage of being born a biological male, so that's an unfair advantage in sport over people who had been born biological females. If you had a 6-ft man who then competed as a 6-ft woman, if he had been born a woman then on average he would have been 5 ft 8, so he has the advantage of being taller, then a 5 foot 10 woman. When is he had been born a woman he would have been shorter. And there would likely be over advantages as well. When is people are so desperate for biological males to be competing in women's sports, when there is already a biological male section to compete in, well why don't these people campaigning for that, just concentrate on some more important thing like ending wars and curing poverty. And they can leave the rest of us have biological men's sports for biological men and biological woman sports for biological woman.
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  42. Good thinking, Stamer is great
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  43. Oooooooooh
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  44. Is it's so unimportant, don't talk about it then.
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