Colm O'Gorman, resign
Amnesty is not fit for purpose under its current leadership
I posted about this last night but I didn’t give any context. Iseult White is the granddaughter of Sean MacBride, founder of Amnesty, and she is not happy about that organisation calling for the removal of political representation of women.
Amnesty Ireland’s Colm O’Gorman has been on the back foot since he ‘proudly’ signed the letter and it’s telling that the only support he’s getting is from David paisley, who mocks and harasses women and then tries to cover up the evidence. (Here’s the podcast version of the video he successfully got YouTube to remove).
Others (women, mainly) haven’t been so supportive.
But by far the most satisfying response was from White, whose raw despair over the letter elicited some of Colm’s now-familiar careless, dismissive misogyny.
“Did you read it” indeed. For me, the exchange was reminiscent of another howl of outrage, when Senator Joe McCarthy was asked “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?” and quickened the end of McCarthyism. O’Gorman is no Joe McCarthy, but my God, isn’t that faint praise for the head of Amnesty Ireland?
Amnesty Ireland’s HQ is named Sean MacBride house, but White knows that as long as they support the silencing of women, its current occupants are trespassing.
(NOTE: On this week’s ‘Mess We’re In’, we’ll be talking to two of the women O’Gorman is trying to silence, Ceri and Lauren from LGB Alliance Ireland. See you on Wednesday at 4pm!)
I see that Colm is saying that the groups are on the "far right". Drives me nuts that TRAs think that gender ideology is left wing. Left wing is about fighting to get people equal access to food, housing, education. Trans ideology is liberal and is nothing as useful as any of those things. Pronouns and calling a man a woman are not useful. Saying that people fighting for sex based rights are right wing is just more divisive nonsense designed to shut people up
I’ve sent an email to Amnesty Ireland to say I’m disgusted and the reasons why and that Colm needs to resigns. Wonder will I get a response? Probably not - still waiting to hear back from the National Women's council and Irish girl guides