I know what you're thinking. "OMG, how could Ireland get more based!?" But I regret to inform you that they did not in fact imprison someone for life for transhobia. They didn't even make him face the firing squad.
This is the most ridiculously fake claim I've ever seen, but it looks like conservatives are actually sharing despite the article being fake. The actual source appears to be this Facebook post.
This kind of bullshit always triggers my ADHD hyper focus, so I couldn't help but find out what the actual story was.
So needless to say, Enoch Burke (an appropriate name as berk means twat in UK slang) was not imprisoned for transphobia, but for contempt for court.
You can find the details on Wikipedia, but here's a summary.
Enoch Burke is a member of a family of evangelical activists, who appropriately come from County Mayo.
He was fired from his job as a teacher after refusing to use they/them pronouns for a student because he:
1: Interrupted a school event to go on a transphobic rant.
2: Harassed the head teacher so aggressively other teachers had to intervene in order for her to leave.
3: Brought his sister along to his disciplinary hearing and kicked up a fuss rather than act like an adult.
The school then had to hire security to prevent him from trespassing, and had to involve the police. He was told multiple times he had to leave them alone, and refused each time. He has been imprisoned multiple times, and others claim that all he needs to do to stop going back is to agree to follow the court order. He says he will never agree, so people are claiming he's been imprisoned of life when all he needs to do is stop being a dick. Even Westboro Baptist Church literally said he went too far, so you know he's unambiguously in the wrong.
I honestly thought there had to be something more complicated behind his. I thought maybe reactionaries were making fake photos of themselves falling for obvious lies so they can claim some kind of own. "LMAO, leftists are so dumb. They actually think we have the media literacy of a toddler." But no, some people are really that gullible.
hellinkilla [they/them, they/them] - 1w
It makes me think of Jordan Peterson who "got fired" (quit) because he "misgendered" (contemplated misgendering) a "trans student" (fictitious thought experiment). I guess this is an advancement because this guy actually got fired. But then it has to become imprisoned for life in the retelling.
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lib1 [comrade/them] - 1w
Wait I thought Peterson was in Canadian pronoun Chinese cock milking jail
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Umechan [he/him] - 1w
Only in his dreams.
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segfault11 [she/her, any] - 1w
maybe he’s addicted to being in a medically induced coma because it’s the only place where he can go to the Chinese cock milking jail
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Umechan [he/him] - 1w
But as always, they gloss over the fact that he wasn't fired simply because he was transphobic. He was clearly being disruptive and harrassing other teachers, and then turned his disciplinary hearing into a protest.
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LeninWeave [none/use name, any] - 1w
Even Westboro Baptist Church literally said he went too far
Did not think this was possible.
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buckykat [none/use name] - 1w
Westboro are experts at riding the exact line of legality
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GrouchyGrouse [he/him] - 1w
Yeah, it’s their whole modus and because the founder was one of those lawyers who picked up and went to the south during segregation to argue against it and help poor black people that were getting fucked over by legalese and bad counsel.
Which makes it all the more mind blowing that Freddy turned into a giant raging bigot.
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LeninWeave [none/use name, any] - 1w
Which makes it all the more mind blowing that Freddy turned into a giant raging bigot.
Proof that there's something deeply wrong with the Amerikkkan south. A secret confederate plot to poison the water supply with a toxin that makes kkkrakkkers evil, maybe.
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came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them] - 1w
northern bigot moves south and does bigotry.
"the south did this."
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LeninWeave [none/use name, any] - 1w
I mean, I'm joking (of course). These people have themselves to blame for their own bigotry, obviously, they weren't compelled by some nefarious plot to be shitheads.
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GrouchyGrouse [he/him] - 1w
Seriously.
Until I read a better theory then I’m rolling with the secret confederate plot thing, that has legs.
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Keld [he/him, any] - 1w
As bad as they are, I don't think they've ever stalked children.
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Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them] - 1w
Always happens this way. The right wing share some "loony left" article about some poor innocent soul having their life destroyed by woke. Then you actually spend 30 seconds reading about it and it turns out they were basically the worst person imaginable, who lost their job because they were a piece of shit.
I do wonder how many of the people who believe this stuff do it because they are actually scared of some kind of "woke agenda" and how many of them believe it because if they win it will let them get away with being an absolutely reprehensible human being.
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Umechan [he/him] - 1w
This is even more ridiculous than most. Even when they lie about the reasons for these cases, the consequences (getting fired or arrested etc) are generally true. But nothing is actually true here, and the screenshot of the "article" immediately looks suspect because it doesn't have the logo for the outlet or the name of an author. It looks like something someone could have easily fabricated.
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SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them] - 1w
I do wonder how many of the people who believe this stuff do it because they are actually scared of some kind of "woke agenda" and how many of them believe it because if they win it will let them get away with being an absolutely reprehensible human being.
You'd be surprised, but it's usually a mix of both. Chuds genuinely think they're an oppressed class and that "woke" needs to he exterminated from society because it's being pushed by 'elites'
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LeninWeave [none/use name, any] - 1w
County Mayo
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unaware [they/them] - 1w
local Mayo Pete
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oscardejarjayes [comrade/them] - 1w
Even Westboro Baptist Church literally said he went too far
Absolutely wild
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Umechan [he/him] - 1w
This Linked In post is my favourite. Someone calls it unbelievable, then is surprised the unbelievable thing is actually unbelievable.
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hellinkilla [they/them, they/them] - 1w
to be fair.... linkedin OP says they have been debunked but can't delete the misinfo
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Umechan [he/him] - 1w
Sure, but I think if your first instinct is that something this outlandish is unbelievable, it's probably because it isn't true
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the rizzler - 1w
so he wasn't actually sentenced to life, he just keeps violating his restraining orders?
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Umechan [he/him] - 1w
Yes, but because he has no intention of following them, the protect children crowd now expect the courts to drop the orders.
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SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them] - 1w
Post-Truth world baby. Also how the fuck you so bad even the wbc people think you're going too far?
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Carl [he/him] - 1w
This guy got hit hard by the transphobia brain worms. It must be a new hyper aggressive strain.
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JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them] - 1w
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Parra [none/use name] - 1w
what a fucking loser lol
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Assian_Candor [comrade/them] - 1w
I know what you're thinking. "OMG, how could Ireland get more based!?"
Literally what I was thinking
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Umechan [he/him] - 1w
If they really were that based, at least 10% of the country would be in prison, and I would have kidnapped Graham Linehan and sailed to Ireland so he could face justice in his homeland.
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FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him] - 1w
last-ditch challenge
Not be such a colossal asshole that it's illegal challenge: Level impossible somehow?
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WokePalpatine [he/him] - 1w
The Burke of Enoch.
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WokePalpatine [he/him] - 1w
The end is nigh.
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sewer_rat_420 [he/him, any] - 1w
Damn leftists shoving identity politics in our faces by putting us in jail when we repeatedly commit hate crimes with reckless abandon
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Umechan [he/him] - 1w
Trans ideology is when you don't let people trespass in schools.
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GrouchyGrouse [he/him] - 1w
Living your life like a South Park parody of a person to own the genders. Ireland is being altogether too patient with this person.
What did Westboro Baptist Church have against his actions?
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Umechan [he/him] - 1w
I'm not sure if they said, but probably because it was legally indefensible. You can fool the public with fake articles, but it's much harder to fool a judge.
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CupcakeOfSpice [she/her, fae/faer] - 1w
Didn't know Westboro Baptist Church was still causing shit. I thought they would just fade into the background or that they were some cult that my previous chuddy pastor had a bone to pick with. Hearing them mentioned here is a weird experience.
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RedSturgeon [she/her] - 1w
Yeah it's genuinely depressing to the core, this stuff ends up circulating throughout global right-wing communities and their proxies, through twitters, facebooks, tiktoks, discord channels, gaming spaces and so on.
And there's no agency combatting this, almost anywhere, if not at all. The best trans people can hope for is that our existence is mentioned, if it isn't cut out entirely.
Even our libbed out government still sent out informants to schools and tried to reach out to the population through newsletters etc. when other people were being harmed, but when it's trans people being harmed nobody cares. I ask for the bare minimum, to please stop the spread of lies about people like myself, and it's too much. I try to do it myself and nobody believes me or they think I am one of the "good ones", just an exception.
I will try to see if I can set up something, it's just so hard because trans people with resources around me don't care about politics and I don't have any resources, so trying to do anything takes 1000 years. Where is my Engels
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SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them] - 1w
But no, some people are really that gullible.
I know we sometimes have cases of people falling for obvious false stories, but chuds take it to such a level that they'll believe anything that affirms their evil beliefs.
Umechan in slop
Facts no longer matter
I know what you're thinking. "OMG, how could Ireland get more based!?" But I regret to inform you that they did not in fact imprison someone for life for transhobia. They didn't even make him face the firing squad.
This is the most ridiculously fake claim I've ever seen, but it looks like conservatives are actually sharing despite the article being fake. The actual source appears to be this Facebook post.
This kind of bullshit always triggers my ADHD hyper focus, so I couldn't help but find out what the actual story was.
So needless to say, Enoch Burke (an appropriate name as berk means twat in UK slang) was not imprisoned for transphobia, but for contempt for court.
You can find the details on Wikipedia, but here's a summary.
Enoch Burke is a member of a family of evangelical activists, who appropriately come from County Mayo.
He was fired from his job as a teacher after refusing to use they/them pronouns for a student because he: 1: Interrupted a school event to go on a transphobic rant. 2: Harassed the head teacher so aggressively other teachers had to intervene in order for her to leave. 3: Brought his sister along to his disciplinary hearing and kicked up a fuss rather than act like an adult.
The school then had to hire security to prevent him from trespassing, and had to involve the police. He was told multiple times he had to leave them alone, and refused each time. He has been imprisoned multiple times, and others claim that all he needs to do to stop going back is to agree to follow the court order. He says he will never agree, so people are claiming he's been imprisoned of life when all he needs to do is stop being a dick. Even Westboro Baptist Church literally said he went too far, so you know he's unambiguously in the wrong.
I honestly thought there had to be something more complicated behind his. I thought maybe reactionaries were making fake photos of themselves falling for obvious lies so they can claim some kind of own. "LMAO, leftists are so dumb. They actually think we have the media literacy of a toddler." But no, some people are really that gullible.
It makes me think of Jordan Peterson who "got fired" (quit) because he "misgendered" (contemplated misgendering) a "trans student" (fictitious thought experiment). I guess this is an advancement because this guy actually got fired. But then it has to become imprisoned for life in the retelling.
Wait I thought Peterson was in Canadian pronoun Chinese cock milking jail
Only in his dreams.
maybe he’s addicted to being in a medically induced coma because it’s the only place where he can go to the Chinese cock milking jail
But as always, they gloss over the fact that he wasn't fired simply because he was transphobic. He was clearly being disruptive and harrassing other teachers, and then turned his disciplinary hearing into a protest.
Did not think this was possible.
Westboro are experts at riding the exact line of legality
Yeah, it’s their whole modus and because the founder was one of those lawyers who picked up and went to the south during segregation to argue against it and help poor black people that were getting fucked over by legalese and bad counsel.
Which makes it all the more mind blowing that Freddy turned into a giant raging bigot.
Proof that there's something deeply wrong with the Amerikkkan south. A secret confederate plot to poison the water supply with a toxin that makes kkkrakkkers evil, maybe.
northern bigot moves south and does bigotry.
"the south did this."
I mean, I'm joking (of course). These people have themselves to blame for their own bigotry, obviously, they weren't compelled by some nefarious plot to be shitheads.
Seriously.
Until I read a better theory then I’m rolling with the secret confederate plot thing, that has legs.
As bad as they are, I don't think they've ever stalked children.
Always happens this way. The right wing share some "loony left" article about some poor innocent soul having their life destroyed by woke. Then you actually spend 30 seconds reading about it and it turns out they were basically the worst person imaginable, who lost their job because they were a piece of shit.
I do wonder how many of the people who believe this stuff do it because they are actually scared of some kind of "woke agenda" and how many of them believe it because if they win it will let them get away with being an absolutely reprehensible human being.
This is even more ridiculous than most. Even when they lie about the reasons for these cases, the consequences (getting fired or arrested etc) are generally true. But nothing is actually true here, and the screenshot of the "article" immediately looks suspect because it doesn't have the logo for the outlet or the name of an author. It looks like something someone could have easily fabricated.
You'd be surprised, but it's usually a mix of both. Chuds genuinely think they're an oppressed class and that "woke" needs to he exterminated from society because it's being pushed by 'elites'
local Mayo Pete
Absolutely wild
This Linked In post is my favourite. Someone calls it unbelievable, then is surprised the unbelievable thing is actually unbelievable.
to be fair.... linkedin OP says they have been debunked but can't delete the misinfo
Sure, but I think if your first instinct is that something this outlandish is unbelievable, it's probably because it isn't true
so he wasn't actually sentenced to life, he just keeps violating his restraining orders?
Yes, but because he has no intention of following them, the protect children crowd now expect the courts to drop the orders.
Post-Truth world baby. Also how the fuck you so bad even the wbc people think you're going too far?
This guy got hit hard by the transphobia brain worms. It must be a new hyper aggressive strain.
what a fucking loser lol
Literally what I was thinking
If they really were that based, at least 10% of the country would be in prison, and I would have kidnapped Graham Linehan and sailed to Ireland so he could face justice in his homeland.
Not be such a colossal asshole that it's illegal challenge: Level impossible somehow?
The Burke of Enoch.
The end is nigh.
Damn leftists shoving identity politics in our faces by putting us in jail when we repeatedly commit hate crimes with reckless abandon
Trans ideology is when you don't let people trespass in schools.
Living your life like a South Park parody of a person to own the genders. Ireland is being altogether too patient with this person.
The name Burke fits even better than you think
What did Westboro Baptist Church have against his actions?
I'm not sure if they said, but probably because it was legally indefensible. You can fool the public with fake articles, but it's much harder to fool a judge.
Didn't know Westboro Baptist Church was still causing shit. I thought they would just fade into the background or that they were some cult that my previous chuddy pastor had a bone to pick with. Hearing them mentioned here is a weird experience.
Yeah it's genuinely depressing to the core, this stuff ends up circulating throughout global right-wing communities and their proxies, through twitters, facebooks, tiktoks, discord channels, gaming spaces and so on.
And there's no agency combatting this, almost anywhere, if not at all. The best trans people can hope for is that our existence is mentioned, if it isn't cut out entirely.
Even our libbed out government still sent out informants to schools and tried to reach out to the population through newsletters etc. when other people were being harmed, but when it's trans people being harmed nobody cares. I ask for the bare minimum, to please stop the spread of lies about people like myself, and it's too much. I try to do it myself and nobody believes me or they think I am one of the "good ones", just an exception.
I will try to see if I can set up something, it's just so hard because trans people with resources around me don't care about politics and I don't have any resources, so trying to do anything takes 1000 years. Where is my Engels
I know we sometimes have cases of people falling for obvious false stories, but chuds take it to such a level that they'll believe anything that affirms their evil beliefs.