The Auckland Mobbing of Kellie-Jay Keen Was Fuelled by Media-Peddled Misinformation
Why are journalists at Stuff, The Spinoff, and other New Zealand outlets promoting propaganda on behalf of trans-rights activists?
Kellie-Jay Keen is a five-foot-one, British middle-aged mother of four children who happens to believe that the word “woman” should be reserved for those who are biologically female. As many Quillette readers and podcast listeners will already know, she headlined a March 25th women’s rights event in Auckland called Let Women Speak, which was shut down by protester violence. Keen has been under fire for years from trans-rights activists (who believe that men can become women, and vice versa, by acts of self-declaration). And many such activists in New Zealand were quick to smear Keen as a fascist, on the basis that a small group of apparent Nazis had showed up in the vicinity of one of her recent events in Australia. Yet Keen had been invited to New Zealand by a collective that included a Māori women’s group (Mana Wāhine Kōrero). One might think that even Keen’s most ardent critics would acknowledge that Indigenous organizations are not generally in the business of hosting white supremacists. As we shall see, however, the campaign against Keen has hardly been marked by fairness or intellectual honesty. And sadly, much of the misinformation has been promoted not just by activists, but also by mainstream media sources right here in New Zealand.
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I'm sorry but the main stream media narratives about covid and climate change are no more reliable than they are about transgender ideology. I'm guessing that you haven't looked into them. If you did you would find that the covid narrative falls apart instantly. The evidence points in directions far far different from what our media is telling us. And I'm guessing that having a graduate degree in psychology, you are unable to judge which of the multiple different camps of scientists is correct on climate change (as am I). Only one set of ideas about climate change is being presented to the public, and it is being presented as "the correct science". This is simply not true. It is hotly contested by scientists. I have no idea which team is correct (because I'm a nurse with a masters in psychodynamic psychotherapy and so I can't understand the arguments well enough to parse whose correct unlike covid, vaccines and trans madness).
Laura, you ask some very good questions to which many of us would like some answers. Some real answers, especially as it is becoming obvious that in many other countries child mutilation practices are finally being abandoned as the research clearly demonstrates that you cannot fix a psychological problem with harmful drugs and surgeries. I would also invite Ms. Ghahraman to return to the country her parents wisely fled, where her public statements would lead to her being jailed, rather than hailed as some sort of rainbow heroine. And I would really like someone from the Green Party to explain to NZers why they have abandoned the environmental stance that put them into power. Because you cannot support at the same time both a care for the environment and climate change and a lifestyle that is totally dependent on a lifetime supply of imported plastic goods and manufactured drugs.