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   Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 21:27:55 JST Yuchen Pei
   Why I'm leaving the UK - UnHerd
   
   https://unherd.com/2024/12/why-im-leaving-britain/
   
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   Rather than facing cancellation, I have experienced what Helen Dale has described as the “silo effect”. Although most of my political views would traditionally be described as “Left-wing”, my stance on the culture war has meant that I have been pigeonholed as being on the Right. So while I do not hold allegiance to any ideology, the insistence that I must be classified with one particular “side” means that my employment prospects will always be limited. The digital crèche of social media, with its insistence on political tribalism, binary thinking and purity spirals, has infected the mainstream. For many commentators, it’s now a matter of “you’re either with us or against us”.
   
   The first time I became aware of an opportunity missed due to ideological factors was when a senior member of staff at the Soho Theatre in London told me candidly that I had been taken off the shortlist for a new playwriting scheme because I was white and male. Years later, when I taught stand-up courses at the Soho Theatre for up-and-coming comedians, I was informed that my contract could not be renewed because one of the members of the group felt “unsafe” after reading a joke I had tweeted. This impact for me was negligible — I didn’t rely on the work financially and was only continuing out of a sense of loyalty — but it did concern me that a leading theatre had such a casual disregard for the importance of artistic freedom.
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     Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 21:34:30 JST Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged)

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     @quasi LOL, he really got me with the first paragraph. I thought he must have been seething while writing that, before I realized it's a joke. I love Doyle; he's always nuanced and has a great sense of humour.
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     Bricky (thatbrickster@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 01:27:21 JST Bricky

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     • Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged)
     @taylan I believe he mentioned his US-bound departure in his Andrew Gold interview. I'll miss his Free Speech Nation show that covered the WPATH files but I hope, like Fr Calvin Robinson, he can flourish on greener pastures.
     
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     Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 05:29:58 JST Yuchen Pei

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     • Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged)
     @taylan
     He's got a great sense of humour. Someone GC woman (Edie Wyatt?) in a recent xitter space about deeming v pesutto said he was far right when he started at GB news. Is that true?
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     Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 05:31:44 JST Yuchen Pei

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     Free speech nation was a completely different show whenever hosted by a substitute. So his departure means the show is dead to me...
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     Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 05:37:41 JST Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged)

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     @quasi Hmm, I can't imagine him ever having been far right... One cannot be intelligent, a gay man, and far right. It's like a "pick two out of three" situation I think. :blobcat-joy: Maybe a conservative like Douglas Murray? But Wikipedia says he even supported Corbyn in 2017.
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     Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 05:46:40 JST Yuchen Pei

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     • Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged)
     @taylan
     Right, if he used to be far right, then the wikipedia entry would probably have mentioned it with enthusiasm
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     Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 05:49:11 JST Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged)

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     @quasi Oh, definitely, lol.