Book Influencer Sacked by Waterstones After Saying She Would “Enjoy Tearing Up” Books by Gender-Realist Author
A book influencer has been sacked by Waterstones after saying she would enjoy “tearing up” books by a gender-realist author. The Telegraph has more.
Tilly Fitzgerald had built up a 90,000-strong online following for her book reviews and recommendations shared under the name Tilly Loves Books.
She was sacked by Waterstones after stating in an online post that she would enjoy “tearing up” and binning books by a gender-critical author.
The author, Christina Dalcher, had shown support for a group of women in publishing, known as the Seen network, who had raised concerns about the spread of gender ideology.
She reposted an article discussing the group, and took issue with those criticising Seen.
The book influencer wrote in response: “Oh I’ll enjoy tearing up your books and popping them in the bin today. Thanks for the heads up.”
Several hours later, after her comments had been flagged to Waterstones, Tilly posted a tearful video message in which she explained that she was “heartbroken” after being sacked by the bookshop chain.
Telling the Independent she was “absolutely devastated” to lose her job, she added:
My initial comments weren’t trying to get anyone cancelled or taken off shop shelves – I was speaking of my choice to throw my own books of theirs away as I didn’t want to personally support them.
I acknowledge that my comments were a violation of the social media policy, and I did apologise for any trouble caused, however, I think the punishment was disproportionate and a warning would have been more appropriate.
Worth reading in full.
Of course, cancel culture is wrong whoever is the victim. But it’s hard not to feel a twinge of satisfaction when a perpetrator gets a taste of her own medicine.
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Has she joined the FSU?
That’s what I wondered. Can an employer sack someone for a single (presumably legal) post on social media?
The Reform UK Party sacked several candidates, even for social media posts from 15 years ago.
Are candidates employees? They probably don’t have the same rights
You are correct, but it was just an example of the same principle.
I believe Reform were wrong to do that.
I agree
Apologising has led us to where we are now
Reform were bang on, the other parties do not do that and they should be ashamed of themselves. Labour are especially poor when it comes to the open and public abuse of their own female MP’s most notably Rosie Duffield.
I was disappointed to hear Reform are bringing in Party Whips, something a candidate said they wouldn’t be doing.
Maybe I was too hasty in lauding Nigel’s appointment of Lee Anderson as Chief Whip, especially now that the Millionaire Muslim Pakistani donor has been handed the Chairmanship post.
Does that mean that no Reform Party MP will be allowed to criticise Islam in any way, ever? And Lee will end up being a kind of Sharia Law Enforcer?
Why?
It should be the electorate that decided what was appropriate in what is allegedly a country with free speech. Reform could have said they as a party did not agree with the candidates comments or beliefs, but let the voters decide.
No party is prepared to stand up for Free Speech, but every single one would claim we as a nation have Free Speech.
And it seems at least instance was a C4 fit up, even if it was not deliberate.
Yes, almost all contracts have a clause where you can be sacked summarily if you bring the company into disrepute. Waterstones sells books, it is directly against their interest to have a representative decide to revision Kristallnacht.
Well Tilly, hopefully ‘lessons will be learned.’
Well, she got her way, she did tear up. Tilly Loves Tears.
It is dispiriting because on the one hand it is the most blatant form of totalitarianism whereby in accordance with Orwell 1984 you will be made to say that two and two is five. And ultimately they achieve vistory when you not only say it but truly believe it as well. On the other hand iti s so obviously contrary to nature, experience, rationality – it suggests to me the panic of a dying force. But this attack isn’t just culutural it is chemical and elrctromagnetic as well which makes resistance a much more tricky business.
This reminds me of Stockholm Syndrome and Cult Deprogramming. Somebody who is abducted, albeit usually physically rather than mentally, by some cult or serial terrorists can wind up not only refraining from escape attempts but also participating in the activity of their captors, and ultimately believing sincerely in their cause and in some heavily distorted or even fanciful interpretation of “reality”. De-programming such cases may attract accusations of abuse, might be risky to the cult member and the “de-programmer”. “Energetic confrontation with reality at an appropriate juncture” is often effective, but very risky as the wavering cult member might conceivably become suicidal when they realise what reality is, or be found dead in the outdoors under strange circumstances.
So much damage has been done to the point where you feel hesitant to pull someone out of the programming in the same way that putting someone through alcohol withdrawal could result in their death. People talk in platitudes about awakening or pulling people out of their servitude. You have to be humble when you are dealing with this level of damage.
One would have to possess a heart of stone not to laugh.
Whose heart of stone does one possess? How can we make sure they don’t get it back?
FFS. That’s a job?
OK, smartypants – it’s a fair cop! 😉
And I agree about the ‘job’.
🙂
You don’t worry about your dick or pussy when you don’t have enough to eat or if you haven’t slept because of constant bombardment. Surely you can see that this is just something that they are feeding you while they are gettimg the pieces into place. If you want to understand the situation then listen to the bankers. They say ‘inflate or die.’. The system now can only inflate through massive escalation. Maybe you don’t see it but I can say with certainty that this is coming. When it does don’t start moaning about how they kept you distracted with identity politics nonsense.
Your comment got me thinking about this track: Pussy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbX30rvBEQM
The only surprise is that Waterstones had the balls to ‘let her go’.
You are making no serious preparations for war and yet as a nation you are goading it more than any other nation. What does that say about you in terms of your willingness to protect your citizens? This is a simple question and a pertinent and urgent one. Evertything else when set aside this is a joke. If you lack the perspective to see what is happening then you have already sealed your own death warrant.
Russell Brand interviews Dr Dave Martin. He explains how it was a Plandemic.
https://rumble.com/v5661mq-theyre-censoring-vaccine-harm-data-dr-dave-martin-exposes-big-pharma-manipu.html
The bioweapon and its effects are at least forty years old with a path of continuous finance and development. Just look at how many people have nasty coughs right now in July as well as other symptoms such as aching limbs and brain fog. This is the summation and it is only going to get worse. You might have noticed shorter and shorter intervals between bouts of good health. There is no solution. I have heard it argued that this malaise will be with us for as long as we exist and will only get worse. I am more optimistic but I think the next few centuries will be times of plague and suffering.
“but I think the next few centuries will be times of plague and suffering”. I’m less optimistic than you unfortunately, I really don’t think we have that long…
Well, Dr. Henry Makow, on the List of Heroic Jews for telling the truth to the people, has provided the following quote from a fascinating book that explains everything, including this gender ideology nonsense. “The historical mission of our world revolution is to rearrange a new culture of humanity to replace the previous social system. This conversion and re-organization of global society requires two essential steps: firstly, the destruction of the old established order, secondly, design and imposition of the new order.” “The first stage requires elimination of all frontier borders, nationhood and culture, public policy ethical barriers and social definitions, only then can the destroyed old system elements be replaced by the imposed system elements of our new order. The first task of our world revolution is Destruction.” “All social strata and social formations created by traditional society must be annihilated, individual men and women must be uprooted from their ancestral environment, torn out of their native milieus, no tradition of any type shall be permitted to remain as sacrosanct, traditional social norms must only be viewed as a disease to be eradicated, the ruling dictum of the new order is; nothing is good so everything must be criticized… Read more »
I quote from Ottmar Edenhofer, IPCC chairman from 2008 to 2015. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environment policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore. We redistribute the world’s wealth by climate policy.
Claiming that the UN want to create a socialist world government is not a conspiracy theory, It’s a clearly stated policy
Good quote! The Marxist Redistribution of Wealth, clearly stated, as you said.
Herzl called it ‘the dreadful power of the purse’ . I think its power is wavering as the Christian impulse is rising. This energy is pregnant and ready to explode. I guarantee that by the end of July dissent will have grown massively. The goyim are slow to move but are also inscrutable and unpredctable and sometimes surprising. It is the spiritual war of a closed system against an open one.
You are absolutely right. It is Spiritual Warfare.
It is the spiritual war between good and evil…
Yes, and we here in the physical world have been given Free Will to choose between Good and Evil, during our short time on the Earth.
Free Speech cannot apply when you work for a company and have to abide by rules they put in place. So this is not a “Free Speech” issue. ——-if I work for a company manufacturing televisions and I go around saying that the televisons are rubbish then perhaps I will not stay in employment for long.
Yes, unpopular as it sounds, I agree with you.
Sounds like libel that so many confuse with free speech issues. I actually think hate is free speech….Hate speech.
Go Woke Go Broke
WTF is a “Book Influencer”?? Oh yes, someone who try’s to dictate what we should or shouldn’t read now blubbering like a toddler for not getting her own way.
Probably best to read everything. Even if it is just so you can disagree with it. Because you can hardly disagree with stuff you have not read can you? That is what cancel culture morons do.
Life can be so tough. Especially just when you think you’ve been, oh, so clever, it turns around and bites you, hard, on the backside.
Never mind, this silly misguided grirl has just taken one more step up the learning curve.