Mick Hartley

Author: Mick Hartley

  • Iranian backflips

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  • True Afghan hospitality

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  • The transchild

    e spending tens of thousands of hours doing empirical…

    — Read some Piaget please! (@prof_curiosity1) September 8, 2024

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    Where were all the 'transchildren' from 1920-2000 when Piaget, Kohlberg, Bandura, Vygotsky, Erikson, Bowlby, Steiner etc along with their students (and their vociferous critics) were spending tens of thousands of hours doing empirical research on children?

    Research that involved studying children at home, in nursery and at school. Studies that involved writing down every action, statement, or question that the child asked. And then analysing these recordings for patterns and insights.

    Not one of them observed a 'transchild' in all this time.

    So where were all the 'transchildren'?

    The logical answer is, of course, nowhere, as they were not yet required. They were not invented as a typology until the 2000s when the trans movement needed children to validate the sexual fetishes of autogynephiles and make transgenderism palatable for the public.

    The other answer is a conspiracy theory. That research showing transchildren existed was suppressed; rather like alien conspiracy theorists talk about Area 51 in Nevada USA.

    If we ignore the conspiracy theory, we are left with the answer that no child was trans until the 'transchild' was needed, in the 2000s, to demonstrate the universality of 'gender identity'.

    Children, sadly, were the logical choice due to their undeveloped brains/thinking and their vulnerability. It is not hard to persuade children that Santa exists or even that sexual abuse is a normal part of family life. 'Gender identity' can easily be packaged to appeal to the magical thinking of children.

    'Transchildren' have thus become the main focus of transgenderism. For the activists know that without the winsome, photogenic 'transchild', groomed to repeat adult phrases about 'gender identity' the movement consists in the main of adult males with a fetish for dressing up as women.

    Transgender ideology needs 'transchildren' to survive. It needs them to harm themselves and kill themselves to demonstrate that the ideology is real.

    We need to protect our children. And we can start by debunking the idea and existence of the 'transchild'.

  • A “deeply worrying pattern of bias”

    the sadistic guards, with x-rays certified by Palestinian doctors showing broken bones, smashed with hammers. The Israel Prison Service actually had a video showing the lad being released – quite clearly unharmed. But of course, for the BBC, everything that the Palestinians/Hamas say must be true, and the duplicitous Jews are always lying. Whether through gullibility or bias, it's regularly allowed itself to be used as a mouthpiece for Hamas propaganda.

  • Sheffield 1960s

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  • “I’m up at five for t’papers”

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  • Therapy issues

    ervs, and there was even a Zionist therapist blacklist being passed around, made up mainly of Jews. Safe places where therapists go for support have veered to one extreme or the other, leaving clinicians feeling alone.

    Even in therapy, perhaps the Jewish profession par excellence, the post-October 7th poison has been at work.

  • Punishing the Taliban

    Afghan men’s cricket team will play South Africa. A bitter irony. Throughout the apartheid years, sporting boycotts were used to pressure Pretoria to end violent white supremacist rule and to punish its bar on black cricketers. The world took a moral stand: we refused to fill stadiums with cheering fans for a racist state.

    Without wishing to diminish that evil regime, the Taliban is a far more meticulous oppressor. Black children received an inferior education but could still attend school. Black people were barred from many jobs and received pitiful pay yet could still earn a living. Those corralled into black townships kept the most basic human freedoms: to play music and sport, to dance, sing, laugh and chat with friends, or simply feel the breeze in their hair….

    It is hard, everyone admits, to have leverage over the Taliban. It has crushed opposition, closed itself to the West. To make food aid conditional on allowing girls back to school could lead to mass starvation. Campaigners say the Taliban doesn’t care. Its leaders pocket enough stolen wealth to afford huge houses, several wives and to keep their families safe — and their daughters educated — in Gulf states. Subject to Russian-style travel bans, they nonetheless fly private jets to Dubai for health treatment, while an unaccompanied Afghan woman cannot hail a taxi to take her sick child to hospital.

    International silence about the regime is born of shame. America is embarrassed by the fiasco it caused by precipitously pulling out its forces. Afghanistan, once a noble, liberal, democratic project, is a failure never to be spoken of again. We tried for 20 years is the conceit, but abandon a garden and nature surges back. What do you expect when civic society, especially the participation of women, was alien to Afghan culture?

    Campaigners are enraged to hear that female advances in every sphere of life, from law to sport, were a mere blip. They say the Taliban’s edicts are neither social “norms” nor Islamic law but mechanisms of social control (and of men, too, who are brutally punished for not keeping “wayward” womenfolk in check). What they endure needs a name and in October the UN legal committee will debate codifying a new crime against humanity into international law: gender apartheid. Existing laws address abuse of women but campaigners, from Nobel laureates to Amnesty, believe none fully capture the codified, systemic abuse of Afghan women.

    This new crime could allow the prosecution of the Taliban in international courts and would declare its unique evils to the world. Could the International Cricket Council keep an apartheid nation on its fixture lists? Boycotting the Afghan team would not be a peevish act but the deployment of a rare political lever against the Taliban, which permitted the men’s game when it forbade all other pastimes. Its leaders both love the sport and know a ban would be too unpopular to sustain. Afghan players pose regularly with Taliban chiefs, who relish victory over a team such as England. A boycott would hurt.

    Like many women observing an unfolding dystopia that exceeds even the The Handmaid’s Tale, I’ve despaired that there is anything we can do for Afghan women. But there is: it starts with regarding their human rights as no more negotiable than those of black South Africans and treating the Taliban as what it is, the ruler of an apartheid state.

    The power of cricket? We shall see.

  • Hamas strategy document

    as' military capabilities have weakened, the document does not call for a rapid conclusion to the conflict. Instead, it dismisses the damage in Gaza and the thousands of casualties, showing no concern for these issues.

    One of the key tactics outlined in the document is the continued application of psychological pressure on the families of the hostages to increase public pressure on the Israeli government. It is stated that during the second phase of the negotiations, Hamas plans to allow the Red Cross to visit some of the hostages as a "goodwill gesture," intended to send messages to their families and extend the ceasefire.

    The document also includes Hamas' demands and strategies to manipulate the international community in order to strengthen its position. For instance, Hamas representatives are instructed to propose the placement of Arab forces along Gaza's eastern and northern borders with Israel. These forces would act as a buffer to prevent Israeli forces from entering Gaza until Hamas fully restores its military capabilities.

    Additionally, the document outlines how Hamas intends to ensure that Israel is blamed for any failure in negotiations by framing it in public statements as the obstacle to an American-backed deal.

    One significant point of contention, the Philadelphi Route, which Hamas has prioritized in current negotiations, is notably absent from the document.

    Despite its public emphasis on this issue, the document fails to mention it, further illustrating Hamas' focus on military and strategic gains rather than addressing the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

  • Supreme leader pants

    cracking down on the supreme leader’s hairstyle, some people are whispering that it seems like they’re trying to separate the Paektu bloodline from the people.”

    Well yes. Isn't that the whole point?

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