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Yes, and Ubisoft are likewise entitled to reject those views and remove her content. Where's the problem here? Private companies don't owe columnists a platform. https://twitter.com/IanDunt/status/1325030492681494528
Not everything is about freedom of speech.
Helen Lewis is not being censored: she recorded some audio for a games company, and when they later found out she was garbage, they took it out. She got her fee.
What is it about transgender people that causes British centrists to forget how contracts work?
We assume there's a lot of work delivered for the production of that game - level and character concepts, scriptwriting, art, whatever - that isn't part of the final project. Is it only censorship if you're transphobic too?
Note that Dunt also invokes the imagery of book burning in a reply to that tweet, and we want to explain the historical irony of using that to defend a transphobe again.
When the Nazis burned books, they didn't just randomly burn any book they could find - they weren't opposed to books and knowledge *in principle* - they specifically burned books that said things they didn't like.
And one of their first targets for that treatment was the huge body of research that pre-war German scientists had accumulated on sexuality and gender. German doctors were leading the way in these fields, advocating acceptance of traits that were previously pathologised.
Nazis obviously hated this - you know what they did to queer people - so those first bonfires of literature were destroying that research. That one act set back the understanding of gender and sexuality *decades*.
So when you invoke "book burning" to make a point, you'd better hope it's not to defend the ideas of transphobes. Because you would have been on the side of the ones doing the *burning* in that case.
You do not get to leverage *our* cultural erasure to commit that same erasure a century later.
The books they burned were books about *us*. Books whose contents, if properly preserved, might have meant we wouldn't still be having these asinine debates in 2020.
The qualifications for mainstream punditry in the UK are disliking trans people and having a decent headshot ready to upload.
Nazi Germany delayed - and in some instances halted forever - queer liberation in the West. Many of the queer prisoners liberated from camps at the end of the war were immediately imprisoned again by their supposed rescuers. The Allies were only too happy to follow Nazi policy.
Hey, "allies" have been fucking up since 1945, huh?
Don't you *dare* draw comparisons between us and the ones who destroyed us.
