Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan has, once again, been cancelled by the ever-tolerant left. And just like last time, it’s because of his views on the trans community. Linehan has previous for this, having a Father Ted musical cancelled in 2018 and being banned from Twitter in 2020 not long after defending J K Rowling. So, this isn’t exactly something new, but it shows the zeal with which the LGBT community attack anyone who dares push back.
Linehan is well known for his comedy writings, Father Ted being the most famous. But he has also done work for The Fast Show, Big Train and the IT Crowd. However, Linehan is also well known for speaking out against the trans movement. Indeed, the first line on his Wikipedia page describes him as an “Irish comedy writer and anti-transgender activist.”
The crosshairs of the LGBT lot started to focus on him in 2008 after an episode of The IT Crowd featured a man finding his girlfriend is a trans man ( I think, I’m never sure which way around this nonsense goes ) being found out and then a fight between the two takes place. The forever upset quickly saw this as transphobic and normalising violence against trans women. The real issue is that people laughed at a trans person for being trans. That’s what they didn’t like. Heaven forbid someone laughs at a joke they haven’t approved.
And they have continued to decide that he cannot perform ever since.
But Linehan has stayed the course and paid a hefty toll for his troubles. Sticking to his guns has resulted in lost work and a lost wife, Helen Serafinowicz left him in 2020 after 16 years of marriage. But Linehan has remained a vocal critic of things like the awful trans children charity Mermaids and the hiring of Munroe Bergdorf by the NSPCC. His ban from Twitter came after repeated violations of the nebulous terms of service the platform used to operate on, the final straw being “men aren’t women tho”, which he tweeted in 2020.
The latest cancelling comes from a venue called Leith Arches. The venue says that “we work very closely with the LGBT+ community – it is a considerable part of our revenue.” You have to wonder why these venues work so closely with a reasonably small group and how much revenue they will likely make from this group. What’s more likely is that they don’t want the bad press. They know full well that the LGBT lot will make a big scene. They will brand this venue as hateful, bigoted, and all the other hurt-feeling buzzwords. That’s what this comes down to in the end. The venue is scared. They’re intimidated.
And that seems to be the overarching theme in many of these “cancellings” recently. Intimidation. Someone like Linehan has been harassed for having views and opinions the LGBT community don’t like. They do everything they can to stop him from working and criticise everything he says against them. Someone like Rowling has enough money to speak her mind and be untouched. Linehan, however, isn’t quite rich enough to be able to dodge all this. His problem? He stands alone. He stands alone against this hoard. And standing alone is a surefire way to lose.
A long time ago, Linehan criticised Mark Meechan for the joke he played on his girlfriend with her pug dog. He quickly threw this man under the bus without knowing or caring about the context. He has since apologised to Mark. He should have realised then, as he probably does now, that the people after Mark are the same types that now hound him.
The sooner people unite against this stuff, the sooner it goes away. It doesn’t matter if you’re nationalist, Tory, or non-political; it doesn’t matter. We must stand together against these people as they stand together against us. They hate us all, regardless of the labels they give us. To stand alone is to lose. Join us at the Homeland Party and stand up against Left-wing intimidation.
Or face them yourself, like Graham Linehan, and have them permanently coming after you.
