The sheer concentration of unspeakable recent developments has taken concerns about cultural decline into yet another circle of hellishness.
The events of the past few days have been truly eye-watering.
On Saturday, a self-declared “trans-anarchist” man called Sarah Jane Baker, who spent 30 years in jail for kidnapping and torture and who tried to murder a fellow prisoner, spoke at a “Trans+” event at which he called for TERF women (“Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists”, aka women who believe sex differences are biological and immutable), to be punched in the face.
At this incitement to violence, the mob actually cheered.
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