A piece on the Fabian Society website. Extracts from Khan’s planned speech, the emphases are ours:
In his first major speech of 2018, Sadiq Khan will warn that for the first time in his life gender equality could stall – or even go backwards – as populism gains strength.Addressing the Fabian Society New Year conference this morning, Sadiq will point out that populism “plays on people’s worst fears and creates space for extreme views on immigration, diversity and equality.”He will condemn the idea that campaigns for equality and diversity are political correctness gone mad, he will point to the example of the US which has seen a recent rise in anti-feminist movements. Across the Atlantic, the use of ‘snowflake’ or ‘social justice warrior’ have become pejorative terms that effectively shut down debate, and more and more people have tried to dismiss the gender pay gap as a myth…
“Anti-feminist movements are on the rise – as part of a concerted attempt to roll back progress on rights for minority groups…
“We’ve seen the impact of this in the US and we cannot allow this narrative to take hold in Britain. It’s the responsibility of us in this room to redouble our efforts and to fight back. We all have a responsibility as progressives to continue the fight for gender equality.”
“Another cultural shift we need to see is for men to become better allies so that when women speak out about sexual harassment – men listen, believe and act.
Justice for Men & Boys 
It is not the role of men to ‘listen and believe’ when when women talk about sexual harassment, as Khan suggests. It is our responsibility to listen and CONSIDER. WE will decide our conclusions.
We have always listened – hence the judicial system – and we have now come to a conclusion:
Mr Khan and his feminist cultural-marxist buddies have started a fire.
He has been playing with matches and hoped to blame selected easy-target groups for the fire damage. How ironic.
We have noticed, and he doesn’t like it very much.
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Populism, according to Wikipedia (not the most authoritative source, but it will do) “is a political philosophy supporting the rights and power of the people in their struggle against a privileged elite”. Well, we wouldn’t want that, would we?
We live in a bizarre political environment in which the privileged elite still portray themselves as victims, and still demand yet more power to assuage their victimhood, failing to recognise that their supposed oppressors are now the homeless, the uneducated, the prematurely dead.
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Khan obviously recognizes the usefulness of feminism as a tool to foment division among non-Muslims, while making himself appear virtuous at the same time. Does he speak out against the position of women under sharia law? I doubt it.
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Wow. Yes. Indeed.
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He is remarkably quiet on such topics. I suspect the “gender equality” platform is to distract from his questionable past links and possible electoral weakness in a City very much the target for muslim terrorism.
After all here he’s parroting stuff from Hollywood, maybe gets him some good pics. with a star or two in future.
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I must confess that I doubt that women are disadvantaged under Sharia law. Of course they may have different roles to those of men but I suspect that although men may on the face of it seem to have advantages , women as in all societies are very influential and would change things if they really wanted too. The perception that women are disadvantaged is often a matter of presentation and remember that women often approve of things like strict dress codes because they mean t hat other women become less of a threat as sexual rivals. I admit that I have no first hand experience of living under sharia law and I know that some women do complain about it, but then frankly they complain anyway.
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Writing from different sides of the political spectrum Ed West and David Goodhart agree that some 24% approx of the population are globalists – in other words the liberal Left – and could at least in theory be “at home” anywhere. These are the ones whose religion is diversity and the feminists are included among them. They struggle to accept a lot of women actually voted Trump, not Hillary.
The remaining 76% come from “somewhere” which means that they have roots and that includes family and a tie to a nation state. The globalists despise the concerns of that majority which they dub “populism”.
Back in 1917 Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem entitled “When the English Learn to Hate”. His point was he didn’t think we ever would and we did tend to feed German pilots who’d been shot down tea and buns until the police arrived in 1939-45.
I reckon thanks to the liberal Left globalists we have learned that lesson.
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If I recall this correctly I think that more white women voted for Trump than for Clinton . It was only among ethnic minorities where the reverse was true.
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I like the way he thinks that the words “snowflake” and “social justice warrior ” are used to shut down debate. I wonder if he feels the same about words like “racist” and “Misogynist”. No I expect in his world view they are completely OK.
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Projection.
The left is notorious for it.
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Lets be honest what debate do we ever get from the left? Mr “part and parcel” is a little con man. A Marxist shrill.
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One of the reasons for Khan’s approach, Mike, is that he has two daughters. I know YOU have two daughters too, but Khan doesn’t have your nobility.
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Frankly, as he has two daughters you would think he would know better than to see them as disadvantaged. Obviously they can twist” Daddy” round their little fingers.
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If there ever is a draft again, I hope Khan will fight for equality and have his own daughters drafted.
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I don’t or at least not for draft into the infantry or similar. One of the difficult things about believing in equality and recognising differences between men and women is things like the draft. Women are never going to make as effective fighters and worse than that may handicap forces burdened with them in unsuitable roles.
Draft if it ever returns should be gender neutral but the roles men and women are applied to should be realistic.
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Well I’d go one step further allowing women to be considered for any role so long as they meet the criteria set for all. I’ve been reading quite a bit about the Australian Defence Force and its quotas and bending over backwards to get women in. And still its not successful as women don’t choose to join or go for the really hard tasks. I’ve often commented that there have been constant campaigns about “trades” from the mid 1970s and yet these still attract few women. I suspect that if things were simply equitable the sexes preferences would simply lead to similar patterns in the future. It is interesting that in Sweden the wide choice has resulted in more “sex segregation” in occupations and sectors, as women take advantage of the state sectors generous provisions for time off/out. It is the artificial forcing the issue creating discrimination, enmity and ridiculous results (Fire fighters who can’t lift their equipment for instance) that is both wrong and hypocritical.
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Yes the fire fighter issue is an interesting one. As you probably know the entry requirements have been adapted so that upper body strength is not tested in the way it once was as it was an insurmountable obstacle for women. Nothing illustrates better the way that the weasel word “equality” is manipulated for feminist ends .I still use the word firemen and will continue to do so until women can pass the old “proper” tests.
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For decades, feminist have used pejorative terms to shut down debate about men’s rights. For decades, they have lived off my taxes and my labour. For decades MRAs have been no-platformed and silences. Khan’s hypocrisy could not be more stark, his viewpoint could not be further from the truth.
The Prime Minister has worn the “The is what a feminist looks like”. FEMINISM can silence any man it likes with an anonymous accusation. When you can steal a man’s born children and abort his child in the womb without him knowing, slice the genitals of baby boys with impunity, turn a blind eye to half the victims of domestic violence, and ignore paternity fraud, it is FEMINISM that is in power, and FEMINISM that silences debate.
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Exactly. For me the easiest test of Feminists’ honesty is shared parenting in law. For if they believe their theory then “motherhood” is no more valuable than fatherhood and giving fathers equal rights and responsibilities should be a core concern.
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‘Another cultural shift we need to see is for men to become better allies so that when women speak out about sexual harassment – men listen, believe and act.’
Is he really saying that strong, independent, ‘kickass’ women need men to protect them?
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That last sentence above is chilling. So when a woman accuses, the lynch mob must listen, believe, and act..
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Mr Khan is in NO position to lecture ANYONE about gender equality. What a revolting hypocrite.
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