Time to stonewall the UN?
The Equality and Human Rights Commission represents an unsung success of this government. Set up in 2006 by Tony Blair as an umbrella super-agency to promote and enforce human rights and non-discrimination, by 2020 it had become, in effect, a progressive pressure-group led by a self-perpetuating leftism drawn from the genteel quangocracy. In that year, however, Liz Truss, then Women and Equalities Minister, riled the establishment by shaking it up, appointing four new Commissioners who did not come from that class, and later a new Chair, Baroness Falkner, a woman of impeccably balanced liberal views and independent mind, who does not suffer fools or grifters gladly.
The new moderate EHRC is, however, now under regular attack from progressives determined to regain control of it. The latest assault comes from Stonewall, once a respectable gay rights organisation, but now a tiresomely shrill trans activist pressure group. This is an attack that can be fought off, but the government needs to keep a cool head.
The whole piece is well worth reading as a reminder of the Eric Hoffer quote -
Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.
The new moderate EHRC is, however, now under regular attack from progressives determined to regain control of it. The latest assault comes from Stonewall, once a respectable gay rights organisation, but now a tiresomely shrill trans activist pressure group. This is an attack that can be fought off, but the government needs to keep a cool head.
The whole piece is well worth reading as a reminder of the Eric Hoffer quote -
Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.
Stonewall’s spat with the EHRC arose in April this year, over women-only spaces and the issue of whether a person who self-declared as female had a right to be admitted to them. Having weighed submissions from all sides, including women’s organisations that wished to keep such spaces free from biological males, the EHRC recommended amending the sex discrimination legislation to make it clear that sex meant biological sex rather than chosen gender. In other words, the mere fact that you said you were a woman (or a man) should not guarantee you a legal right to be treated by all and sundry as if you were. This recommendation was accepted by the government. Stonewall, an organisation that brooks no dissent from its own different and very dirigiste views, was livid. Finding no joy at home, six months ago it attempted to internationalise the dispute through the UN.
2 comments:
I occasionally have a look at the EHRC and its doings because my old philosophy tutor used to run it. Apparently nothing of interest happened in her time there.
I found this bit of interest:
"The UN, as part of its human rights efforts, encourages members to set up national equality and human rights organisations like the EHRC."
The author of the piece obviously wants Stonewall to be given a bloody nose and for the EHRC to prevail, but personally this is one of those contests where I hope they both lose. The EHRC is clearly a woke job creation scheme, and Stonewall has achieved its initial aim of homosexual equality and is now looking for spurious reasons to exist.
Sam - I'd like to see the EHRC to prevail over Stonewall and the UN first, but the UN will persist whatever happens and it may not matter what happens to the EHRC afterwards. Woke job creation schemes are the problem, cut off one head and two more may grow in its place.
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