The thumb is a bit baity, but I was pleased to have a long and very interesting chat with Novara about all things railways and transport. HOWEVER, since the interview one of their contributors made a series of transphobic posts which I can't ignore. buff.ly/3ZlmDnz… - ThreadSky

garethdennis.bsky.social • 102 days ago

The thumb is a bit baity, but I was pleased to have a long and very interesting chat with Novara about all things railways and transport.

HOWEVER, since the interview one of their contributors made a series of transphobic posts which I can't ignore.
https://buff.ly/3ZlmDnz…

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garethdennis.bsky.social•102 days ago

Transphobic bigots never have a point, and you never have to hand it to them.

That Michael Walker said the opposite of this alongside other bigoted right wing talking points, and that Novara then had Ana Kasparian on repeating them, is extremely disappointing on several counts.

garethdennis.bsky.social•102 days ago

Firstly, there is no position consistent with left values that throws any marginalised group of people under the bus. Novara have screwed this up before for disabled people and were rightly called out for it. This cannot happen again.

garethdennis.bsky.social•102 days ago

Secondly, it suggests that Walker is not a capable critical thinker, which calls into question much of his other journalism. His tweet, not least the version he deleted, was just utter idiots' casserole that only a smidgen of curiosity debunks.

garethdennis.bsky.social•102 days ago

Thirdly, and quite simply: people on the left won't support an organisation that itself supports bigotry, and I'd suggest it's a bad business move to alienate the people who pay the bills.

garethdennis.bsky.social•102 days ago

Without intervention, Walker is clearly on the well-trodden path to becoming a loudly public transphobe. It's on Novara to either reach out to him, support his deradicalisation, or if he's incapable of this, to ostracise him.

garethdennis.bsky.social•102 days ago

Without one of those two things happening, it would be very difficult to support or appear on Novara again.

disabledphil.bsky.social•102 days ago

They were called out but there was no accountability. There was one attempt at a special disability week but since then they've hardly uttered a thing about us despite everything. Bastani hasn't apologised or acknowledged his part in it once. Novara has an accountability problem.

disabledphil.bsky.social•102 days ago

I was a part of the group of disabled people trying to hold them accountable. I spoke on the zoom meeting with them and DPAC. Nothing I've seen since has shown a meaningful change of culture that would prevent this kind of thinking happening again. I don't consider it a closed matter.

disabledphil.bsky.social•102 days ago

These latest comments from one of their main hosts shows the disconnect between them and marginalized communities. They've only drifted further since the Singer interview. It almost feels like the only thing they took from the ordeal was contempt for the people who expect better of them.

johnstumbles.bsky.social•102 days ago

So frustrating and infuriating; I thought Walker was a good 'un.
(I'd heard Kasparian was redflaggey a while back - is she part of Novara as well as TYT?)

garethdennis.bsky.social•101 days ago

No she just guested.

duzek.bsky.social•102 days ago

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hollybrigstocke.bsky.social•102 days ago

As long as a single transphobe is at Novara media or given a criticism free platform they're dead to me. I will mention this to my MP and encourage her to call them out or decline interviews.

I've come across "right on" men like Michael Walker before who turn out to be middle class wankers.

felixffern.bsky.social•101 days ago

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garethdennis.bsky.social•101 days ago

This came via buffer and inadvertently skipped the alt, I always use otherwise, ta. In this instance missing it out didn't lose anything really.

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