I know what you’re thinking. “OMG, how could Ireland get more based!?” But I regret to inform you that they did not in fact imprison someone for life for transhobia. They didn’t even make him face the firing squad.
This is the most ridiculously fake claim I’ve ever seen, but it looks like conservatives are actually sharing despite the article being fake. The actual source appears to be this Facebook post.
This kind of bullshit always triggers my ADHD hyper focus, so I couldn’t help but find out what the actual story was.
So needless to say, Enoch Burke (an appropriate name as berk means twat in UK slang) was not imprisoned for transphobia, but for contempt for court.
You can find the details on Wikipedia, but here’s a summary.
Enoch Burke is a member of a family of evangelical activists, who appropriately come from County Mayo.
He was fired from his job as a teacher after refusing to use they/them pronouns for a student because he: 1: Interrupted a school event to go on a transphobic rant. 2: Harassed the head teacher so aggressively other teachers had to intervene in order for her to leave. 3: Brought his sister along to his disciplinary hearing and kicked up a fuss rather than act like an adult.
The school then had to hire security to prevent him from trespassing, and had to involve the police. He was told multiple times he had to leave them alone, and refused each time. He has been imprisoned multiple times, and others claim that all he needs to do to stop going back is to agree to follow the court order. He says he will never agree, so people are claiming he’s been imprisoned of life when all he needs to do is stop being a dick. Even Westboro Baptist Church literally said he went too far, so you know he’s unambiguously in the wrong.
I honestly thought there had to be something more complicated behind his. I thought maybe reactionaries were making fake photos of themselves falling for obvious lies so they can claim some kind of own. “LMAO, leftists are so dumb. They actually think we have the media literacy of a toddler.” But no, some people are really that gullible.
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It makes me think of Jordan Peterson who “got fired” (quit) because he “misgendered” (contemplated misgendering) a “trans student” (fictitious thought experiment). I guess this is an advancement because this guy actually got fired. But then it has to become imprisoned for life in the retelling.
Wait I thought Peterson was in Canadian pronoun Chinese cock milking jail
Only in his dreams.
maybe he’s addicted to being in a medically induced coma because it’s the only place where he can go to the Chinese cock milking jail
But as always, they gloss over the fact that he wasn’t fired simply because he was transphobic. He was clearly being disruptive and harrassing other teachers, and then turned his disciplinary hearing into a protest.
Even Westboro Baptist Church literally said he went too far
Did not think this was possible.
Westboro are experts at riding the exact line of legality
Yeah, it’s their whole modus and because the founder was one of those lawyers who picked up and went to the south during segregation to argue against it and help poor black people that were getting fucked over by legalese and bad counsel.
Which makes it all the more mind blowing that Freddy turned into a giant raging bigot.
Which makes it all the more mind blowing that Freddy turned into a giant raging bigot.
Proof that there’s something deeply wrong with the Amerikkkan south. A secret confederate plot to poison the water supply with a toxin that makes kkkrakkkers evil, maybe.
northern bigot moves south and does bigotry.
“the south did this.”
I mean, I’m joking (of course). These people have themselves to blame for their own bigotry, obviously, they weren’t compelled by some nefarious plot to be shitheads.
Seriously.
Until I read a better theory then I’m rolling with the secret confederate plot thing, that has legs.
As bad as they are, I don’t think they’ve ever stalked children.
Always happens this way. The right wing share some “loony left” article about some poor innocent soul having their life destroyed by woke. Then you actually spend 30 seconds reading about it and it turns out they were basically the worst person imaginable, who lost their job because they were a piece of shit.
I do wonder how many of the people who believe this stuff do it because they are actually scared of some kind of “woke agenda” and how many of them believe it because if they win it will let them get away with being an absolutely reprehensible human being.
This is even more ridiculous than most. Even when they lie about the reasons for these cases, the consequences (getting fired or arrested etc) are generally true. But nothing is actually true here, and the screenshot of the “article” immediately looks suspect because it doesn’t have the logo for the outlet or the name of an author. It looks like something someone could have easily fabricated.
I do wonder how many of the people who believe this stuff do it because they are actually scared of some kind of “woke agenda” and how many of them believe it because if they win it will let them get away with being an absolutely reprehensible human being.
You’d be surprised, but it’s usually a mix of both. Chuds genuinely think they’re an oppressed class and that “woke” needs to he exterminated from society because it’s being pushed by ‘elites’
County Mayo
local Mayo Pete
Even Westboro Baptist Church literally said he went too far
Absolutely wild
This Linked In post is my favourite. Someone calls it unbelievable, then is surprised the unbelievable thing is actually unbelievable.
to be fair… linkedin OP says they have been debunked but can’t delete the misinfo
Sure, but I think if your first instinct is that something this outlandish is unbelievable, it’s probably because it isn’t true
so he wasn’t actually sentenced to life, he just keeps violating his restraining orders?
Yes, but because he has no intention of following them, the protect children crowd now expect the courts to drop the orders.
Post-Truth world baby. Also how the fuck you so bad even the wbc people think you’re going too far?
This guy got hit hard by the transphobia brain worms. It must be a new hyper aggressive strain.
what a fucking loser lol
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the way I’ve kinda come to see it is that some things can be true; but what mostly happens in human interactions, especially relations of power or politics or economics or whatever, is that we are accepting a story, and what’s true is dependent on the narratives we’ve internalized. A liberal’s truth is one thing, a fascist’s is another, leftists have many. This kind of “truth” isn’t mutually compatible because it’s only “truth” in a diegetic sense i guess? As these understandings diverge sufficiently, reconciliation becomes impossible. An up becomes a down. A left becomes a right. Right becomes wrong. That inevitably leads to conflict until someone can assert their narrative truth from a place of dominance i guess?
im really on a kick of seeing the world as intersecting, interconnecting stories and narratives. In that framework, truth has never really mattered. A true thing can be re-interpreted with narrative, and that narrative reinterpretation is usually exactly where people interface with power/politics/etc. - so it stands to reason truth was never a serious consideration. The truth of the narrative you’re immersed in is what matters, and that can literally be “turning the frogs gay” tier nonsense, or it can be something more grounded in what is like dialectical materialism is supposed to illuminate - in both cases though, the truth of narrative trumps any kind of scientific attempt to derive what’s “true”
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last-ditch challenge
Not be such a colossal asshole that it’s illegal challenge: Level impossible somehow?
I know what you’re thinking. “OMG, how could Ireland get more based!?”
Literally what I was thinking
If they really were that based, at least 10% of the country would be in prison, and I would have kidnapped Graham Linehan and sailed to Ireland so he could face justice in his homeland.
The Burke of Enoch.
The end is nigh.
