Three of our songs have been axed by the music distribution company DistroKid. This means that they are no longer on Spotify, Apple Music, or any other streaming platform. DistroKid provided no warning, no email, no notification. A few listeners DM’d me to let me know.
I emailed the company. Someone at DistroKid called ‘Marceline’ said that my song ‘contains hate speech.’ What a surprise. I asked Marceline to specify the exact instance of so-called ‘hate speech’ in the song. They were unable to clarify this and I received only a rote response.
Boys Will Be Girls was the first to be terminated by DistroKid. Two days later, they deleted Clownfish, a song that reports the facts about child transition. Then I discovered they have axed Problematic, the song about Wokeism.
In short: blanket deletion of every release.
No possibility of appeal, no option of retort. Clearly ideological. The songs were ousted simply because they mock the dominant doctrine. ‘Anyone who questions it will get censored or met with cancellation’ – I said in Clownfish. ‘They’ll label this a hate crime blueprint’ – is its opening line.
This is but one tiny flake in an avalanche of censorship carried out at the behest of transgenderism. There are so many examples of this sort, so often, that it can now seem trifling when yet another one comes along. Oh look, here’s one from yesterday.
Chase Strangio at ACLU launched an abortive effort a while back to ban Abigail Shrier’s book. Heinous charges were levelled at Helen Joyce when she published hers. A relentless tsunami of rape and death threats was directed at J. K. Rowling for writing a blog piece.
Graham Linehan was unpersoned for saying "men aren't women." James Lindsay was recently axed for accurately referring to a 'trans kids campaigner' as "a child sexualisation specialist." Activist goblins have been vying to topple LibsofTikTok for her chronicling of lunacy.
Trans activist wargs at Spotify tried to snuff out Joe Rogan. He spoke of it on a recent show. He said the CEO Daniel Ek had been supportive, and also claimed that Spotify doesn't censor rappers. If this is true then, in my case, it was the blue hair department at DistroKid that swung the axe.
Companies hop on the transwagon because this cabal has been in ascent now for a few years. They anticipate that the cult's reign will continue, and figure they better get onboard. As Orwell pointed out, this sort of thinking is not simply a bad habit, it is a crippling mental deficiency.1
That which is in vogue today will be spurned tomorrow. Reputations will be burnt. It would serve them well to remember this, but foolish firms have gone all in on transgenderism. There will be cosmic back-pedalling as the trans chariot's wheels come loose in coming years.
They subscribe to an ideology that chemically castrates children. They believe in puberty suppression through triptorelin and leuprorelin – the exact same drugs used to sterilise sex offenders. Surgeons cut off teenage girls’ breasts. They celebrate this barbarism.
For now the trans fasci have the blind backing of the corporations, banks, charities, media and tech firms – who bow to the activist cranks that staff their ranks and use this charge of 'hate speech' as a cudgel, a hatchet to enforce compliance.
The fervid urge to censor is partly a product of panic. The latest activist smear tactic is to sully critics as ‘stochastic terrorists.’ They are becoming terrified – and they should be terrified! – there is growing popular pressure against their corrupt doctrine.
From J. K. Rowling and legions of left-leaning women, to conservatives like Christopher Rufo and Matt Walsh – the issue encompasses many who disagree on separate matters, but concur that child transition and male infiltration of female sports and facilities is to be opposed.
The transgender cyclone has undergone a streak of rapid compound growth since 2010, reaching to the very heights of legislative power. Activists would have everyone believe that the sinister right-wing press is behind this sudden prominence in cultural discourse.
The opposite is the case. More than anyone, it is the activists themselves who have shoehorned the gender creed into the limelight, coaxing companies and institutions into bolstering it, installing the machinery of transgenderism into their very fabric.
They have lulled millions into nodding along with it, by emblazoning pronouns on social media and next to their names on LinkedIn, by tattooing this symbol into their professional and personal avatars. Those who do this are one of three things: 1) uninformed, 2) cowards, or 3) active advocates.
For the uninformed, it is sheer thoughtlessness that disposes them to support what will clearly be the greatest medical scandal of our era. Like Hannah Arendt’s description of Eichmann, they are merely propagandised dupes – banal, shallow, clueless ‘joiners.’
The second lot, the cowards, have obtained glimmers of the truth but are too stupefied to speak or stand up for it, lest they damage their precious careers or tarnish their friendship circles. Eventually the rabble will come for them; who will have sympathy? Speak while you still can.
If they cannot be encouraged to do so, they must at least be convinced to suspend participation, to abolish those pronouns, to politely decline and abstain from cult-like regurgitation of turgid mantras and slogans.
Finally, the activists. There are gradations to them; rungs, ranks, levels. Some are not so far gone and can be pulled back. But the most radical and deeply-entrenched caucus amongst them is a small sect of terminally deluded and disturbed individuals.
They have craftily amassed cultural power. Transgenderism has assumed the mantle of a new ‘civil rights struggle.’ Far from being ‘marginalised’, these activists regularly call on the power of the academy, the mass media, the police, corporate firms, NGOs, tech companies, even MI6.
The internet has been its petri dish. Every depressed and body dysmorphic outcast who spent too much time on Tumblr in their teens has been agglomerated under this spurious cult umbrella of ‘trans.’ They were handed a ready-made device that 'decoded' their dishevelled minds.
The activist orcs transformed these youngsters into a new market for clinicians, doctors, endocrinologists, plastic surgeons, medical start-ups, pharmaceutical companies, deranged psychologists and corporations yearning to earn woke cookies. There was a lot of profit to be had.
The facts about the transgender medical experiment will become known to more and more people. Reality is coming for them. Banning songs won't change that. Others will be spurred to speak up, just as I was after the Maya Forstater debacle and the banning of all the Gender Critical forums on Reddit.
Censorship was to be expected and is part of the territory. If anything, it demonstrates the songs have some sort of effect, however slight. I am surprised it took them this long. We will re-upload the songs through a different distributor and get them back up within the next few weeks.
But for now, at least, they can be found on YouTube. Help me get the message out by sharing these songs with everyone you know.
Our next song is called ‘Train Harder’ and is about blokes in women’s sports.
In ‘Second Thoughts on James Burnham’, Orwell assesses Burnham’s predictions. He came to largely agree with the theory set forth in Burnham’s The Managerial Revolution, even going so far as to incorporate aspects of it into 1984. But he took aim at some of the dodgy forecasts Burnham had made during the second world war, such as, for instance, that Germany was bound to win the war. At the time of the prediction Germany seemed unassailable.
“It will be seen that at each point Burnham is predicting a continuation of the thing that is happening. Now, the tendency to do this is not simply a bad habit, like inaccuracy or exaggeration, which one can correct by taking thought. It is a major mental disease, and its roots lie partly in cowardice and partly in the worship of power, which is not fully separable from cowardice.”
In the same way, corporate executives are surveying the political landscape around them, noticing that certain sects have a great degree of cultural force at their back, and are thus absorbing and assimilating these ideologies, banking on their continued success. In the case of transgenderism, this will probably be a major error.
It's encouraging in a way, as it shows they are afraid of people hearing the songs. Any chance you could highlight the LGB Alliance fundraiser on Crowd Justice?
I am so sorry this has happened to you.
Is there an alternative to DistroKid that you can use?
It is like an avalanche. One musician goes down and they start looking for who else they can topple:
https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/the-real-revenge-of-the-nerds/
Excellent article but it is a crying shame you had cause to write it!