One hallmark of the political left in the intolerance of any form of dissent. The left, generally speaking, don't debate; they don't discuss (there are exceptions, but they seem increasingly fewer and farther between), but they do lecture, hector, and even threaten. In recent years, it seems that even violence isn't beyond them; just look at our current sitting President of the United States, who has been the target of three assassination attempts, which is unprecedented in American history. These issues are not merely personal, but also institutional.
The same applies elsewhere, especially in Europe, even in the United Kingdom, which was once America, Original Recipe, and has now become a leftist haven.
Case in point: Fran Unsworth, a former news executive at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), is now shining a light on why she left the BBC - due to endless pressure to bow to transgender dogma.
Fran Unsworth who was the Corporation's Director of News and Current Affairs from 2018 to 2022 said the news division became 'increasingly unmanageable' during her tenure because of a pressure to adopt what she called a 'mono-perspective' on trans issues.
She said: 'I would actually say it drove me out, just dealing with the progressive editorial issues and the bullying around them all. It was incredibly difficult.'
The former BBC executive delivered her criticisms in an interview with her former colleague Rob Burley which was published by the website UnHerd yesterday (Saturday).
Her comments will compound the worst fears of viewers who believe that the BBC has embraced a radical gender ideology which is out of step with mainstream public opinion.
The worst part isn't that a senior member of the editorial staff was driven out by pro-trans activists, and yes, in a news organization, a senior executive being driven out by activists in any issue, any issue at all, right or left, would be equally intolerable. No, the real problem is that the BBC seemed, institutionally, to have adopted what can only be described as a far-left bias. And it's not just the BBC, as we've seen in many recent incidents, and as Fran Unsworth goes on to point out:
She said the BBC's problems at the time had reflected the 'progressive madness' engulfing other institutions.
She said: 'This wasn't something that just affected the BBC...The world went mad, and the BBC, because it is part of the world, went a bit mad with it. This was going on in every institution in society; there was a kind of national bullying going on.'
She added: 'It wasn't just the trans issue [at the BBC]. There was lots and lots of bullying going on about all sorts of things: people didn't want to hear from certain points of view; they'd 'no platform' them; all that safe-spaces s..t.'
That's the left for you. No discourse, no discussion. Try to enter into reasoned debate with these people, and you'll get back, in effect, a line that until recently was an internet gag: "SHUT UP, she explained."
Fran Unsworth isn't the first to speak up about this.
This is not the first-time concerns have been raised about BBC impartiality on gender issues.
Last year a leaked internal report by Michael Prescott, the Corporation's editorial standards adviser claimed that some BBC news staff had felt unable to offer a critical perspective of trans issues because of pressure from gay and pro trans staff at the Corporation.
The BBC was, once, a respected news organization. One may not have agreed with a certain statement by a certain commenter, but overall, the BBC did a pretty good job. Like much of the American legacy media, though, they have been captured by the far left. It's not the BBC of Frank Gillard, who was personally present at and reported from the landings at Dieppe and the Battle of Caen, among other places and times, he was under fire. Now it's the BBC of the terminally woke, not just on the transgender issue, but on all of the favored stances of the nutcake left.
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There are signs of hope on the horizon, unfortunately, too late to save Fran Unsworth's career.
A top BBC executive intervened to reinstate the word 'women' after a backlash against a journalist who substituted it for the phrase 'assigned female at birth'.
Rhodri Talfan Davies, the BBC's director of nations, reportedly asked for 'women' to be added back into a March 26 feature on endometriosis.
That's at least a partial return to sanity. And note that these people can't even get the wrong term right; sex isn't "assigned at birth," it is determined, genetically, at conception.
Again, remember why we watch the once-Great Britain, and the rest of Europe: As these once-great nations swing to the left, American leftists look on them with envy, and wish to emulate their nutbaggery here. And if you need another reason to go vote in this fall's midterms, this should be reason number, well, I'd have to go into scientific notation at this point. Just go vote.
