Should RTE stop airing Father Ted?

So I'll ask a third time.

Any examples or is this hearsay?

Do you have a link to quotes of him doing this?

To break this down as at least it is an example of a quote:

He is using the Manson family analogy to describe the trans movement as a cult. Facetious but not miles off the mark.

I think the obsession with making kids trans does have a weird sexual element to it. We are talking about children’s reproductive organs after all. So I see the paedophile link.

Re the eugenics comment. I agree that using medication experimentally on children as puberty blockers as happened in the Tavistock is like something Dr Mengele would do. Again, facetious comment admittedly.

I really do think what adults are doing to trans kids is deplorable and Linehan making facetious comments is akin to the Just Stop Oil protestors at the end of their tether trying to get people to get it.

You clearly have an inability to read the thread 😑

Nah. His whole life is now dedicated to an obsessional hateful transphobia.

I agree that he is obsessive and probably spends far too much time and effort on this issue. I don’t agree that he is hateful. I don’t understand the word transphobia anymore.

Well that depends on what the definition of a hate filled slur is I guess. We obviously have different thickness of skins.

I prefer to take each argument on merit with a critical analysis of the points being made. “Sounds like something a homophobe would say” could be used to close down any debate on social issues otherwise.

It's possible (Article 27 of the Constitution) but has never happened. Agreed that referendums bring every crackpot out of the woodwork with issues and arguments which are nothing to do with the proposal. I'm still waiting to be conscripted by the EU into their non-existent army at €1.63 an hour.

At least abortion is now entirely a legislative matter so no more miscarriages on posters, but there was something quite distasteful that we had to have a vote before gay people could have equal legal rights - what if we'd voted No? Large parts of our constitution are still stuck in a byegone era.

Well that's just bollocks, ever watched Bernard Manning or Jim Davidson videos from the clubs (a far cry from what he was like on TV) ?

We didn't like it much when it was the "thick Mick" alcoholic labourer stereotype being made fun of, did we?

Making fun of people who are less well off than you financially, socially, etc. is easy - too easy. If society in general stigmatises those people then all the better as if they do speak out they won't be listened to. It was cowardly.

That's no longer the case any more though and the bigots, racists, homo- and transphobes just can't stand it.

It's just comedy.

Mr O'Reilly from Fawlty Towers (played by an Irishman) was playing up to the thick , lazy Paddy stereotype and yet it was a brilliant episode and people in Ireland don't seem to have much objection to it.

Funny is Funny.

This whole punching down argument is just used by people who don't like the absurdities of certain things they agree with being pointed out to them

Yes of course!

Thought experiment: If the vast majority of trans activists agreed with him, wouldn’t it all be ok?