"i'm being censored" screams the person getting an interview in the biggest newspaper in the country

I know they have a duty as journalists to include that author's side of the story, but holy fuck is that guy insufferable. Like, even if he wasn't being a transphobic POS, he sounds like a condescending absolute dickbag. I had a hard time getting through those sentences.

“My olive branch was rejected, however, and a petition begun to have me exiled to Elba [the island that French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was famously exiled to], which supposedly garnered 821 signatures,” Boyne wrote. “For a time, I called it the Loch Ness Monster of petitions – everyone had heard of it, but no one had actually seen it – but then, at last, I managed to procure a copy and realized why it had never, in fact, seen the light of day. To be polite, it lacked a certain name recognition factor.”

Just shut the fuck up, dude.

You're not being censored you just don't have any fucking friends

Such a bizarre nomination.

Boyle referred to himself as a “fellow TERF” (a transgender-exclusionary radical feminist), and said women who support trans rights are “complicit in their own erasure” and “ready to pin down a handmaiden as her husband rapes her” (a reference to woman-assisted sexual assault in the dystopian TV series The Handmaid’s Tale).

I just watched a video on the boy in the striped pyjamas that shit guy wrote the other day tearing it apart. Fuck this guy