вЂWho really knows what goes on at Woke HQ, also known as Silicon Valley?вЂ™, Lisa says. Ultimately, we can only speculate as to the real motives behind TwitterвЂ™s decision to execute Jarvis. The day after FoxвЂ™s apparently controversial appearance on Question Time, Jarvis tweeted: вЂLaurence Fox is literally worse than a 50 ft Hitler made out of Donald TrumpвЂ™s dried semen being dragged along the street by black orphan children with gender dysphoria who are denied hormone blockers and have no access to Hannah GadsbyвЂ™s latest Netflix special.вЂ™ Fox replied in such a way as to signal that he was obviously in on the joke: вЂWhat do you know about anything? You arenвЂ™t even a real woman.вЂ™ Pink News then ran an article criticising Fox for вЂmisgenderingвЂ™ a fictional character. Often JarvisвЂ™s tweets were quoted approvingly by those who missed the satire and, even though the writers at Pink News were aware that the character was fake, they took JarvisвЂ™s side when he / she argued with the actor Laurence Fox. Many of TwitterвЂ™s algorithms pick up on accounts that are frequently reported by users, and there is little doubt that Jarvis had been in the firing line of activists ever since her transition. The Jarvis account highlighted a lot of this and thus, I suspect, became susceptible to mass reporting.вЂ™

вЂWeвЂ™ve gone from women fighting for their rights to women fighting for the right to be women. вЂA war on women is being wagedвЂ™, Lisa tells me. His assumption that being a woman amounted to acquiring traditionally вЂfeminineвЂ™ tastes gets to the heart of why so many feminists are concerned about gender self-identification, insofar as it reinscribes conservative and rigid notions of male and female. The extent of JarvisвЂ™s transition appeared to be to apply lipstick every now and then and to wear a garland of flowers around his man bun. The trans-rights stuff has really taken off as a contender in the Victimbucks Olympics, so this encouraged him / her to become a woman.вЂ™

вЂOriginally he was intended to take the piss out of ridiculous woke hipsters, the same ilk of sanctimonious cretins who run Twitter, but itвЂ™s difficult to gain respect from your woke peers if you donвЂ™t harbour some kind of woe-is-me victimhood complex. вЂJarvis gradually blossomed into a stunning and brave trans womanвЂ™, she explains. Lisa believes that her character was relatively safe in his early incarnation, but that once he transitioned to female she had jabbed the woke nest once too often. The justification for his banning is unclear, but given that TwitterвЂ™s terms of service are deliberately nebulous, this means that the platform is never in the position of having to defend or explain its reasons. Jarvis was extremely popular, amassing 130,000 followers in his short lifespan. ItвЂ™s the shallow, ego-fuelled, clickbait generation version of social justice.вЂ™ ItвЂ™s not actual вЂsocial justiceвЂ™ IвЂ™m aiming this at, by the way. We are now six years on from when Godfrey Elfwick was born, and while that account died a death (although still writing for the Spectator USA), the social-justice craze has not abated. I took over the account when he became bored of it, up until the account got yeeted by the Twitter Wrongthink Division. He did it because he found it amusing when people mistook the character for a real person, and in the process he held a mirror up to the bizarre trend of social-justice warriors who had begun to populate social-media platforms. вЂBack in the day вЂ“ around 2014 вЂ“ the Godfrey Elfwick account was created by a friend of mine to troll people. I ask Lisa about the background to Jarvis Dupont. вЂњThis is for slaveryвЂќ, I said, and quietly left.вЂ™ вЂI walked over to the nearest black family I could see and handed them my half-eaten muffin. When I inherit this land, I will make damn sure I employ only people of colour to maintain it.вЂ™ In another thread of tweets he told an anecdote about being suddenly overcome with white guilt in a Pret a Manger. вЂTaking a walk around my familyвЂ™s estate todayвЂ™, he tweeted, вЂI am harshly reminded how privileged white people are. An early tweet from Jarvis displayed an image of the opulent Dupont estate that he would one day inherit. Jarvis Dupont started life in 2018 as an upper-class university student who was crippled with white guilt.

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