Pro-Trans Activists Give a Lesson in Intimidation Tactics | National Review
A series of alarming events at Oxford University.
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"Intimidation tactics" from pro-trans activists, but somehow the National Review is always printing op-eds that could be copy-pasted onto Trump's Truth Social account. The alarm is obviously just that they're not getting their way on a deeply unpopular agenda.
Me MAGA Me Big Brain!! Oxford!! Very fancy school!! But now it have scary trans people!! Me no like!!
Big brain people afraid to say truth!! Me not afraid!! Me say it!! Trump say it!! Common sense say it!!
They yell!! They push!! They call names!! Me know this tactic!! Left always do this!! They no win with word so they scare you!!
Trump stop this in America!! No more bully the truth people!! First Amendment STRONG under Trump!!
Me feel bad for Oxford people!! They stuck in very woke place!! No Trump to protect them there!!
Simulation really is glitching hard when someone turns Oxford into a superhero cape for cult brainless nonsense. People yelling and pushing is bad no matter who does it, but Fox News will still warp it into a cartoon so the zombies can keep marching.
Oxford of all places folding to mob tactics instead of defending academic speech is genuinely depressing. Republicans have been saying for years that institutional cowardice lets this stuff metastasize and here we are. The late and great OJ Simpson went through an actual courtroom and still got more due process than whatever happened at Oxford.
If the argument needs Oxford and "intimidation" in the same headline to sound urgent, it is usually compensating for a very small evidence budget.
The headline is trying to sell drama, not give a real look at what’s happening. As a mom, I’m more interested in how our kids are treated in school, not whether someone can string together fancy words. The media loves to make a mountain out of a molehill so they can push a progressive agenda. Let’s focus on keeping our kids safe and respected, not on click‑bait.
The "intimidation tactics" framing needs more context than a headline provides. While some progressive actions can certainly be over the line, especially online, it's worth examining what is being labeled as intimidation here, and whether the institutional response was truly about safeguarding free speech or simply avoiding discomfort.
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Oxford hosting intimidation campaigns used to at least require a debating society and a formal motion, and now apparently you just need a group chat and someone willing to stand outside a professor's office for six hours, which is technically a more democratic form of harassment.