In dominant elite discourse, no evidence is needed to brand someone a "white supremacist." The belief that it will produce political or personal gain suffices.
Why is it that this extreme and demented approach of viewing everything through the lens of racial oppression has become so dominant when it’s not even popular among the people it purports to represent? These zealots are conditioning everyone to think in these terms. It’s dangerous because even though the corporate media only mention race when the victim fits its narrative, people can’t help but notice the unspoken race of perpetrators in recent situations like retail looting and the parade attack.
If we don’t return to viewing people as individuals and not avatars, this won’t end well.
The answer is very simple and very old: Divide and conquer. To quote from my first article:
“Cultivate and wield our cognitive biases—especially ingroup bias, conformity bias, and authority bias—against us in a comprehensive divide-and-conquer policy that keeps us too busy squabbling amongst each other to recognize and unite against those corralling us into a Matrix-like collective delusion that enables the powerful to extract our resources for their own gain.” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/a-primer-for-the-propagandized)
Spot on. As neoliberalism enters even deeper crisis, expect more of such emotional divide issues pushed down to the masses to chew on. At some point it becomes the defining characteristics of the "tribes" which insanity they believe - credo quia absurdum.
None of this is being done because these people actually believe it. They willfully resort to deception and manipulation and distortion of reality. The goal appears to be destruction for destruction’s sake. Destroy the country at its base, ie. Enlightenment principles
What's your larger point? Wokeism is hardly a female driven moral panic; ask Chris Rufo. Fauciolatry is hardly a female driven moral panic; ask the homosexual community about the AIDS crisis and male and female alike about his absolute lack of science in decision making; ask Dr. Scott Atlas. Mashing Satanist preschools with Wokeism deserves backhanded response.
Isn't it the same for former alcoholics/addicts? And doesn't it happen in the other direction too?
That is, it has nothing to do with religion per se. When people flash a "I'm a former this" most of the time it means "I'm a current that". And that "current" badge is not necessarily for the better.
With a certain type of people it's all about who is doing what to whom.
There are no other principles involved. Everything is OK, as long as it is us doing it to you. If anyone else does then it's murder, racism, terrorism, antisemitism, white supremacy, neo-nazi, colonialist, bad-think, literally Hitler, double-plus thought-crime, and probably not very nice, too.
It isn't "looting"; it's a purchase that is paid for with tacit permission for the shopkeeper to experience a slight reduction in the self-perception of "oppressors' guilt".
Shopkeeper? These are corporate stores with paycheck slaves minding the door. Real shopkeepers have been driven out of business in most cities by the Democratic party governance for 30 years. Ever try to manage urban employment diktat without a corporate HR department?
California residents need to scare the authorities into doing their jobs. Bumper stickers with 3-7-77 might do the trick.
The numbers are connected to vigilantes in the Montana gold fields. The legend is that the vigilantes would write the numbers on a slip of paper, then slip it under an outlaw's door as a warning to leave town. One interpretation is that they were promising a grave, 3 feet wide, 7 feet long and 77 inches deep.
In the fall of 1863, road agents killed over 100 people in the gold fields around Bannack and Virginia City, Montana. In January, 1864, vigilantes hanged 25 bandits, including the "law and order" sheriff of Bannack, Henry Plummer. It seems Plummer was the leader of the gang, whose watchword was the phrase, "I am innocent."
The bumper stickers would be a threat, linked to interesting history that would gain them notoriety.
The vigilantes were described as the good guys when I took Montana State history in 8th grade in Missoula. Your views may vary. However, something had to be done, and the law was obviously crooked in 1864, just as it is today.
This ain't a problem in Montana. Gun control there means you can hit what you're aiming at. A flash mob at Walmart would get shot at, and incur casualties.
Because it is useful for the establishment in two ways: it is a distraction from real problems on one hand, and on the other great way to prevent any unity of underclass to emerge.
It's a two-fer: 1. Because if the blacks don't feel like the dems need to protect them, the blacks may not start thinking about how in every place they live that has dem leadership, their plight has worsened...for generations and stop voting for them. 2. It provides an excuse for 1.
The push is on because the dems may be starting to realize that all these "immigrants" simply want to be family people who work hard and have an appropriate level of contempt for democrat policy which is anathema to those people.
Why? It serves several purposes. One is an expression of self hating whites that find an outlet for their psychological self evaluation and guilt. Another is an expression of some black people's hatred of whites. But the most important is one mechanism of a political power grab by socialist leftists and the globalist powers that be as one of their ploys to take over this country (and as I see it the world)
Possibly because, among other reasons, it has the effect of demoralizing its intended targets. A demoralized target is easily defeated and controlled. It is an attack on one’s self esteem. I would point anyone interested to the philosophy of Objectivism for a more comprehensive explanation.
Another possible cause is that those making the false allegations are trying to implement and agenda that is not justified by either law nor the common good.
Have you viewed the documentary “Uncle Tom”? If not take a look at being black in America, with a collection of interviews with some of America’s most provocative black thinkers.
The trans ideology pushed by Democrats, especially in US public schools is especially dangerous.
Recently in Loudon County, VA, a parent was pissed off and stood up at a board meeting, confronting board members about their trans ideology and utilizing of girls bathrooms by swlf professed trans male to female. This guy's daughter was RAPED by one such male student proclaiming to be trans. The school quietly removed him to another school where he DID IT AGAIN, WITHOUT TELLING THE PARENTS.
This man was screaming at school board members and they had him removed by the cops. This is how parents wound up being called domestic terrorists as the NEA sent a letter to the DOJ...
There is so much more I could say about this and what it is doing to kiss..bur The big pharma lobby loves the trans ideology as the hormones are expensive and surgeons making a fortune off sex change surgery
Hmm, OK - so before anyone is allowed in a woman's bathroom, they should have to prove they don't have a dick ... should a person have to prove they have one to be allowed into a men's room? A whole new role for a hall monitor ...
I agree "birthing people" and "menstruating people" represent an erasure of women, but "womxn" is an erasure of men -- can't have that particle "men" at the end of a word anymore, even though original "man" in English meant generic human being, like "anthropos" in Greek, and in old English among men, there were "wapmen" (male) and "wifmen" (female).
In the 21st century, men have erased themselves. Is it the fact that life has become so easy and that we are so spoiled that it seems offensive and frightening for men to behave like men? Statues of John Wayne have been taken down. How long will it be before those barren pedestals bear statues of Ru Paul?
The "pussification" of American society was decried by Robert E. Lee nearly two centuries ago. It is now almost complete.
Some opine emancipation of women made a big contribution towards that. Women became easier to get - after all, they should behave like men - and so men no longer had to exert any effort worth of mentioning. Manhood suffered.
One other reason might be fake boobs became available much earlier than penis enlargement. Pure intimidation factor, contributed to shrinkage, spiraling down subsequently. An ugly sight.
There is the long tradition of drag queens in the Gay universe. I don't see this as in any way disparaging or threating to biological women. It's really more of a celebration.
Which is nothing like this mad rush to deconstruct gender all together that we are witnessing. Even that though is more of a Marxist tactic to undermine Western civilization, to be replaced by a world full of genderless drones who "Own nothing and are happy".
I had no idea (until just now) that the biological male at the center of the Wi Spa incident was a registered sex offender with a history of indecent exposure, and has now been charged with indecent exposure at Wi Spa. The original incident and subsequent protests were covered pretty heavily, but this new information seems to have slipped by with hardly a mention. Whenever I have arguments with friends about whether or not trans women are actually women (an argument that wouldn’t even have happened five years ago), one common tactic is for the “trans ally” side to say, “What difference does it make? What’s the harm?” and when the response is men invading women’s spaces, men taking women’s athletic scholarships, the erasure of women, etc., the answer is that almost no one is trying to do that. But, people are clever, and if you set up a system that can be exploited, some people will exploit it. And, here we now are.
Trans women are mental patients no different than those who stand on street corners believing that they are Jesus Christ or Napoleon. They don't need to be treated poorly, but they don't need their delusions validated by the general public, either.
"drag queens come read stories to kindergartners and first graders" - that's likely because they got sick of reading that stuff to ones of their own. Can't stand comparing makeups and other fake parts.
Well, you just used "she" to refer to him so why wouldn't he, being he/him/his/hee/haw/zer/zir/zircon/zzzzzzzzzz (can't find any "laster" letter in the alphabet)?
Interesting how they exclusively address him as "she" on his wikipedia entry. And on his page pronouns are avoided altogether. It's always "Eddie".
What not having a family and kids does to a person.
Ah, but see, that would have not come up as being intelligent, having applied oneself, exerted an effort, given it thought, etc. In fact, it would have been utterly un-American.
Also, people around the world might not have taken it seriously enough.
This reminded me of a (I think) funny story. I had just arrived in Sydney, Australia in 1987 and my friend and I booked a low rent hotel. I was wearing a Harvard sweatshirt my brother gave me when he attended for his LL.M. A transvestite female gave me "the look" up and down and then threw her head back--as though I was the one so full of myself. So evidently Harvard sweatshirt wearing women are much more ostentatious than transvestites.
Just out of curiosity, what "reassignment" surgeries constitute a successful transition - and how many hormone Rxs, if used, are necessary ...
So if gender is not a social construct - and it is a physical one, what makes a "real woman"? Can (s)he be surgically constructed?
Frankly, I am more in tune with the transvestites - they don't claim to be women, they just like to dress like them - and what of women who like to dress like men?
How many surgeries and hormones does it take to "reassign" a "man" or "woman"?
LOL! Obviously you are using that same ole tactic of "shoot the messenger"when you wish to avoid a subject - instead of dealing with the issue raised, you malign the one raising it ... I have seen that soooo often ...
What do you think a man is?
t will be interesting to see if Glenn answers your question ....
I'll never forget the Last Time I ever listened to Terry Gross' FRESH AIR program on NPR. It was about four years ago and she was interviewing a transgender. It said that women smell like fish. It laughed. She laughed. I tuned out.
Thank you so much, Glenn, for being a small group of well-known, outspoken people who still care about the truth, no matter where that takes you. That is what real journalists do and there are too few of them around now. When I said Rittenhouse should sue for defamation on Twitter a whole bunch of people tried to use that to get me fired. They clutched their pearls and feigned outrage because of course, Rittenhouse is a White Supremacist! Everyone knows that. Every person in this country has a right to presumption of innocence, due process, and a trial. Convicting in the court of opinion is WRONG especially when the facts are rarely complete. We're all getting just a version of the facts and much of the time they turn out to be clickbait or flat-out lies.
Living up North in non-Trump territory even the fact that Rittenhouse was toting a gun, and wrongly accused of carrying it across state lines makes him sound very Trumpish, ergo guilty. My sister-in-law and brother loath Trump. From the beginning they believed Rittenhouse was guilty and they managed to come to this decision by using all the false information available before the trial. After the trial his innocent verdict meant nothing. The democrats instilled such severe division in this country when Trump won and their Hilary lost, and cultivated an elitism which disgusts me, as well as making them feel honorable in their highly prejudicial position.
An old friend (of 55+ years) stopped talking to me for 1 1/2 years because I supported Donald Trump. After a mutual friend died, he pulled in his horns and we re-connected at the funeral. That was 3 1/2 years ago.
Although we both committed to never speaking about politics when we communicate, he has not returned my calls since the Rittenhouse verdict. I suspect the Joy Reid's and Joy Behar's of the DNC propaganda squad have gotten to him again.
The same thing happened to me in 2016, and I didn't vote for Trump, but refused to vote for Clinton even though I was a registered democrat. Not an unusual thing for me to do. Hatred and abuse greeted me with a friend, my brother, and a cousin who died of cancer in 2018. He and I never spoke again since I dared institute my democratic right not to vote. He was a professor of law, but at one time a captain in the military. My dislike for Clinton was all about her love for war which he just couldn't accept, and continued to tell me my actions were putting a tyrant in the White House. Another cousin on Facebook was a registered republican most of her life, but was so repulsed by Trump and his "low life" base so her Facebook page became a hate Trump site. She managed to excuse the behavior of every republican president, but not Trump. Her fan base were all the same, well off, educated and mean. When I defended Trump while many thought he was suggesting that people drink bleach to deal with the corona virus, and my interpretation was that he was thinking of something comparable to Clorox, but a medicinal anti-viral treatment that could act in the same way to kill the Corona virus internally, one of her highly educated, rich friends told me to kill myself by drinking Clorox. I told her that I saw her statement as a threat against my life and would report her to Facebook if she made another. It worked and made her disappear. I was also called a racist in defending a policemen for stopping a young black woman for going too slow in a 60 mile an hour strip of highway. One of her friends who had many pictures on her site of her all white gated community called me a racist and gave me a list of books and videos to watch that would help me overcome. Interesting that these people always voted republican until Trump, whose base became defined by Clinton as a bunch of "deplorables." I always thought she referenced them that way to institute a divide in this country which they used to their political advantage, and that divide continues to be used by the democrats in the same prejudicial way.
Thanks for your reply, but it was more about people whom I have had relationships with for so long, really extended myself for, including a younger brother, to treat me in an abusive and dismissive manner. I have degrees, but those degrees don't mean they allow me to feel better then others because they have had less opportunities. All of these people have one thing in common besides an education, they're mentality has always been elitist. They act like they're not going to die, and although they pretend to care about the less fortunate among us, they are, and I always knew it, liars in that regard.
I meant "intelligence" in the widest sense possible. When you say "their mentality has always been elitist" that immediately puts them in the non-intelligent category. Being smug about anything tags one as being stupid right there.
And when times get tough everything comes out. All of a sudden you don't recognize your neighbor or your relation. In a situation like war, for example, that'll easily cost you your life, in a wink.
Wow, I had such hope. Maybe you can suggest he actually watch the entire trial as thinking heads can then do that for themselves. Regaining his independence might be quite refreshing for him.
My best friend since I was about 11 years old (we’re both 53) and who only watches MSNBC (literally that’s all he watches) refuses to talk to me anymore. This was a guy who 20 years ago I collected from a homeless shelter in Vallejo, CA addicted to meth and brought into my home with my new wife and 4 stepdaughters and helped him kick his addiction and get back into college to finish his degree. He’s now an accountant who brags to my family members how he’s ghosted me on social media.
Friendships, like marriage, flow with the Tao. My pal was my right-winger when I played defense on a hockey team 50 years ago. We shared a house, briefly, and dropped acid together probably 100 times. Oh well. Does ANYTHING really matter?
The double-meaning eluded me, bot! hahaha Actually, LaVeen's Golden Blades dominated the Fisher Body Hockey League from 1972 - 1975. Then, Tim Bradley had to hit some guy over the head with his hockey stick, got sued, had to sell his motorcycle, and LaVeen's Department Store got sued and dropped the sponsorship. Good times.
My sister-in-law claimed she watched the trial, but since I did, I knew she got her information second hand. By the way, their sole source of news is MSNBC, and Rachel Maddow is their darling. They live in Connecticut and although she has made similar statements before, her prejudice was now on full display. She said she dislikes her neighbors, and has nothing to do with them, all republicans she said, and Trump supporters, and maybe even gun totting which motivates her to want to move. She recognizes no degree of prejudice on her part, none. Those people are really all alike and no good. She is not the only one I know who adheres to this perception, and what they all have in common is not just that they are affiliated with the democratic party, but all are well off, highly educated and even before Trump you would define them as elitists. I know quite a few people like this, and all adhere to the same perception of Trump's base. One defined them as an uneducated lot, followers and totally amoral.
Projection is a defining characteristic of the woke leftists, both as an indoctrinated psychopathology in the brainwashed herds and a deliberate tactic by the architects of this sociopathic ideology
"Accuse your opponents of doing what you yourself are doing"
Rules for Radicals
Saul Alinskey
Woke Ideology is an existential threat to Western Civilization
I absolutely agree and cannot stand this so called woke culture where they operate in extremes. I don't see it as an approach that will bring about change since it alienates so many. I always thought of myself as more liberal then any of those who proclaim complete loyalty to the democrats and this woke culture. I was always active politically while those who condemn me for my position sat on their asses for many a decade and did nothing. Hypocrites.
Seems to me highly unlikely her neighbors would be Trump supporters. Maybe she likes to imagine herself distinct from them when she’s exactly like them in every way.
They have lived there for about 7 years, and before Trump she referenced her neighbor's politics as republican, but didn't make such an issue of it, but didn't like it either. They have a beautiful home in Conn as do their neighbors. You can't use logic alone to understand the Trump years, and what continues to play out. Here is the last paragraph of a letter a friend picked up from the internet and sent me via email even though I did not vote for Trump and was a registered democrat. However I didn't vote for Clinton due to her very hawkish nature. I'm very anti-war.
" It wasn't your politics I found repulsive. No, it was your willingness to support someone who spouts racism, sexism and cruelty almost every time he opens his mouth. You side with a bully when it should have mattered most and that is something I will never be able to forget. So in response to your post-election expression of hope, no, you and I won't be coming together to move forward. Obviously, the president-elect disgusts me, but it is the fact the he doesn't disgust you that will stick with me long after the election." I ended that relationship even though I knew her since we were 12 because other condemnations of me preceded this one. This is someone who would define people as winners or losers while we were growing up and continued to do so as an adult. Trump became a good scapegoat for many people, as did his base. I'm surprised they didn't send Trump and his base off into the wilderness, or maybe they did.
"It wasn't your politics I found repulsive." - followed by explaining how exactly the politics of being reasonable and staying away when called for is what she found repulsive.
I can't figure out the basis for the trust in our government. A government that puts the mentally ill in prisons/cages, borrowed Trillions to spend on a 20 year boondogle in the Middle East, is run by politicians who spend the majority of their time begging for money, eleminated all good paying jobs by outsourcing to China, claims their voters are racist and blames everyone but themselves for their failures. I can seldom discuss these issues with anyone I know since none of them read or are informed enough to engage in a meaningful discussion. Refusal to comare viewpoints seems to have become endemic The reluctance to discuss solutions for our problems has become the biggest obsticle we must overcome.
The few who govern the many, who are the easily placated complacent. I rather think we've hippies, turned yuppies, turned corporate lobbyist, podium politician's or mass maniac media spokespersons. All well compensated echo chambers. They should have inhaled; recollect president Bill C. Whatever happen to that Winter Soldier Vietnam vet attraction? John Kerry?
Why is it that this extreme and demented approach of viewing everything through the lens of racial oppression has become so dominant when it’s not even popular among the people it purports to represent? These zealots are conditioning everyone to think in these terms. It’s dangerous because even though the corporate media only mention race when the victim fits its narrative, people can’t help but notice the unspoken race of perpetrators in recent situations like retail looting and the parade attack.
If we don’t return to viewing people as individuals and not avatars, this won’t end well.
The answer is very simple and very old: Divide and conquer. To quote from my first article:
“Cultivate and wield our cognitive biases—especially ingroup bias, conformity bias, and authority bias—against us in a comprehensive divide-and-conquer policy that keeps us too busy squabbling amongst each other to recognize and unite against those corralling us into a Matrix-like collective delusion that enables the powerful to extract our resources for their own gain.” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/a-primer-for-the-propagandized)
And this scales up and down allowing for effective control at respective levels.
Lol at username
Indeed! Great username, BTW 😂
I'm all for full transparency and so it is my real self. Many in this forum will vouch.
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Spot on. As neoliberalism enters even deeper crisis, expect more of such emotional divide issues pushed down to the masses to chew on. At some point it becomes the defining characteristics of the "tribes" which insanity they believe - credo quia absurdum.
“credo quia absurdum”—love it!
Thanks - great writing
So glad you appreciated it! It’s been rather gratifying to see so many people tweeting it at tyrants around the world :-)
Oh whoops, I was thinking you were referring to “Letter to a Tyrant” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-tyrant) — sorry if that was confusing :-)
Exactly
None of this is being done because these people actually believe it. They willfully resort to deception and manipulation and distortion of reality. The goal appears to be destruction for destruction’s sake. Destroy the country at its base, ie. Enlightenment principles
"Destroy the country at its base" - destroy _everything_ not just your country, the exceptional one.
Precisely
Women are behind all moral panics from witch hunts to temperance to Satanist preschools to wokeism to Fauciolatry.
Cuz men have no morals?
Can anyone be this stupid?
What's your larger point? Wokeism is hardly a female driven moral panic; ask Chris Rufo. Fauciolatry is hardly a female driven moral panic; ask the homosexual community about the AIDS crisis and male and female alike about his absolute lack of science in decision making; ask Dr. Scott Atlas. Mashing Satanist preschools with Wokeism deserves backhanded response.
You’re right.
All those women running the Catholic Church these past centuries sure did a number on things.
Now, or when the Church wielded real power?
Fools, without exception.
Isn't it the same for former alcoholics/addicts? And doesn't it happen in the other direction too?
That is, it has nothing to do with religion per se. When people flash a "I'm a former this" most of the time it means "I'm a current that". And that "current" badge is not necessarily for the better.
Have you ever met a Vegan who didn't want to "talk about it?"
Have you ever noticed how perfectly acceptable it is to publicly dump on vegans? BTW, Glenn Greenwald is vegan.
How would one know?
With a certain type of people it's all about who is doing what to whom.
There are no other principles involved. Everything is OK, as long as it is us doing it to you. If anyone else does then it's murder, racism, terrorism, antisemitism, white supremacy, neo-nazi, colonialist, bad-think, literally Hitler, double-plus thought-crime, and probably not very nice, too.
Did you say “looting?!” Uff!
I meant "undocumented shopping"
What, producing a credit card to purchase stuff? Shopping suppression!
It isn't "looting"; it's a purchase that is paid for with tacit permission for the shopkeeper to experience a slight reduction in the self-perception of "oppressors' guilt".
Shopkeeper? These are corporate stores with paycheck slaves minding the door. Real shopkeepers have been driven out of business in most cities by the Democratic party governance for 30 years. Ever try to manage urban employment diktat without a corporate HR department?
Most HR departments add to the overhead, complexity and inefficiency when dealing with ineffective employees. True bureaucrats and progressive types.
California residents need to scare the authorities into doing their jobs. Bumper stickers with 3-7-77 might do the trick.
The numbers are connected to vigilantes in the Montana gold fields. The legend is that the vigilantes would write the numbers on a slip of paper, then slip it under an outlaw's door as a warning to leave town. One interpretation is that they were promising a grave, 3 feet wide, 7 feet long and 77 inches deep.
In the fall of 1863, road agents killed over 100 people in the gold fields around Bannack and Virginia City, Montana. In January, 1864, vigilantes hanged 25 bandits, including the "law and order" sheriff of Bannack, Henry Plummer. It seems Plummer was the leader of the gang, whose watchword was the phrase, "I am innocent."
The bumper stickers would be a threat, linked to interesting history that would gain them notoriety.
The vigilantes were described as the good guys when I took Montana State history in 8th grade in Missoula. Your views may vary. However, something had to be done, and the law was obviously crooked in 1864, just as it is today.
This ain't a problem in Montana. Gun control there means you can hit what you're aiming at. A flash mob at Walmart would get shot at, and incur casualties.
Exactly!
They don't sell $1500 per ounce sheep urine anti-wrinkle cream at CVS.
Because it is useful for the establishment in two ways: it is a distraction from real problems on one hand, and on the other great way to prevent any unity of underclass to emerge.
It's a two-fer: 1. Because if the blacks don't feel like the dems need to protect them, the blacks may not start thinking about how in every place they live that has dem leadership, their plight has worsened...for generations and stop voting for them. 2. It provides an excuse for 1.
The push is on because the dems may be starting to realize that all these "immigrants" simply want to be family people who work hard and have an appropriate level of contempt for democrat policy which is anathema to those people.
Why? It serves several purposes. One is an expression of self hating whites that find an outlet for their psychological self evaluation and guilt. Another is an expression of some black people's hatred of whites. But the most important is one mechanism of a political power grab by socialist leftists and the globalist powers that be as one of their ploys to take over this country (and as I see it the world)
I don't think the zealot's you speak of are succeeding outside their bubble.
Possibly because, among other reasons, it has the effect of demoralizing its intended targets. A demoralized target is easily defeated and controlled. It is an attack on one’s self esteem. I would point anyone interested to the philosophy of Objectivism for a more comprehensive explanation.
Another possible cause is that those making the false allegations are trying to implement and agenda that is not justified by either law nor the common good.
If you are obsessed with race then you won't realize how much money they have. Race obsession is a distraction from the class war.
because democrats and the power-mongery are trying to turn the word "racist" into the new n*gg*r
...as in a word of instantaneous punishment, oppression and harm
Thank you for your thoughts.
Have you viewed the documentary “Uncle Tom”? If not take a look at being black in America, with a collection of interviews with some of America’s most provocative black thinkers.
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You're correct.
The trans ideology pushed by Democrats, especially in US public schools is especially dangerous.
Recently in Loudon County, VA, a parent was pissed off and stood up at a board meeting, confronting board members about their trans ideology and utilizing of girls bathrooms by swlf professed trans male to female. This guy's daughter was RAPED by one such male student proclaiming to be trans. The school quietly removed him to another school where he DID IT AGAIN, WITHOUT TELLING THE PARENTS.
This man was screaming at school board members and they had him removed by the cops. This is how parents wound up being called domestic terrorists as the NEA sent a letter to the DOJ...
There is so much more I could say about this and what it is doing to kiss..bur The big pharma lobby loves the trans ideology as the hormones are expensive and surgeons making a fortune off sex change surgery
THIS. IS. WHAT. DEMS. SUPPORT
At the expense of WOMEN
Hmm, OK - so before anyone is allowed in a woman's bathroom, they should have to prove they don't have a dick ... should a person have to prove they have one to be allowed into a men's room? A whole new role for a hall monitor ...
Gee, I dunno, why don't you ask them.
Seems to me the question is how does one prevent rape cases, period ...
Wow - seems akin to Catholic priests “relocation”
Actually, I think "dick" is German.
"Schwanz" is probably closer.
The preferred terms when I spoke German full-time were Schwanz and Schlange.
that would be dich
PENIS, n. : an elastic compartment in which men store their sense and dignity
I agree "birthing people" and "menstruating people" represent an erasure of women, but "womxn" is an erasure of men -- can't have that particle "men" at the end of a word anymore, even though original "man" in English meant generic human being, like "anthropos" in Greek, and in old English among men, there were "wapmen" (male) and "wifmen" (female).
In the 21st century, men have erased themselves. Is it the fact that life has become so easy and that we are so spoiled that it seems offensive and frightening for men to behave like men? Statues of John Wayne have been taken down. How long will it be before those barren pedestals bear statues of Ru Paul?
The "pussification" of American society was decried by Robert E. Lee nearly two centuries ago. It is now almost complete.
Some opine emancipation of women made a big contribution towards that. Women became easier to get - after all, they should behave like men - and so men no longer had to exert any effort worth of mentioning. Manhood suffered.
One other reason might be fake boobs became available much earlier than penis enlargement. Pure intimidation factor, contributed to shrinkage, spiraling down subsequently. An ugly sight.
don't start messin' with the duke
Interesting perspective. Maybe standing up for women/girls is too inclusive for these radicals who aim to divide?
I hope you follow Titania McGrath on Twitter whose mocking of these things is hilarious! (And I’m an effing (old-school: class-based & anti-war) leftist!) E.g. https://twitter.com/TitaniaMcGrath/status/1440964281089019904?s=20
There is the long tradition of drag queens in the Gay universe. I don't see this as in any way disparaging or threating to biological women. It's really more of a celebration.
Which is nothing like this mad rush to deconstruct gender all together that we are witnessing. Even that though is more of a Marxist tactic to undermine Western civilization, to be replaced by a world full of genderless drones who "Own nothing and are happy".
With shaven heads and grey jumpsuits for clothes, I'm guessing. Coming soon to a dystopia near you
Didn't have to wait long for the M word to surface.
I had no idea (until just now) that the biological male at the center of the Wi Spa incident was a registered sex offender with a history of indecent exposure, and has now been charged with indecent exposure at Wi Spa. The original incident and subsequent protests were covered pretty heavily, but this new information seems to have slipped by with hardly a mention. Whenever I have arguments with friends about whether or not trans women are actually women (an argument that wouldn’t even have happened five years ago), one common tactic is for the “trans ally” side to say, “What difference does it make? What’s the harm?” and when the response is men invading women’s spaces, men taking women’s athletic scholarships, the erasure of women, etc., the answer is that almost no one is trying to do that. But, people are clever, and if you set up a system that can be exploited, some people will exploit it. And, here we now are.
Trans women are mental patients no different than those who stand on street corners believing that they are Jesus Christ or Napoleon. They don't need to be treated poorly, but they don't need their delusions validated by the general public, either.
Not that I'm aware of, no. None of the people in those links are in any way drag queens or in any way associated with Gay culture.
"I cannot support the cross-dressers" - how about this particular transvestite?
Starts with San-Francisco related vignette: https://youtu.be/5XKE70Kxl6Y
Ever heard of Drag Queen reading hour?
It's happened in my insane lib state where local drag queens come read stories to kindergartners and first graders.
God I want out of this state.
"drag queens come read stories to kindergartners and first graders" - that's likely because they got sick of reading that stuff to ones of their own. Can't stand comparing makeups and other fake parts.
Also, it's their way to procreate.
YES - the wonderful crossdresser Eddie Izzard !!
I am sure he wouldn't use women bathroom -- he/she ran 15 marathons in 15 days - among many accomplishments....
Well, you just used "she" to refer to him so why wouldn't he, being he/him/his/hee/haw/zer/zir/zircon/zzzzzzzzzz (can't find any "laster" letter in the alphabet)?
Interesting how they exclusively address him as "she" on his wikipedia entry. And on his page pronouns are avoided altogether. It's always "Eddie".
What not having a family and kids does to a person.
OK - you are correct. I think I should have called him he...
There is already a singular "gender neutral" pronoun. I use it.
Ah, but see, that would have not come up as being intelligent, having applied oneself, exerted an effort, given it thought, etc. In fact, it would have been utterly un-American.
Also, people around the world might not have taken it seriously enough.
I must admit I don't feel safe around women with fake boobs either.
LOL! You must feel unsafe a lot! Do you check 'em first to see?
No. At that point I mentally start going through "and what about their vaginas" type of scenarios.
Dracula was my favorite Transylvanian.
This reminded me of a (I think) funny story. I had just arrived in Sydney, Australia in 1987 and my friend and I booked a low rent hotel. I was wearing a Harvard sweatshirt my brother gave me when he attended for his LL.M. A transvestite female gave me "the look" up and down and then threw her head back--as though I was the one so full of myself. So evidently Harvard sweatshirt wearing women are much more ostentatious than transvestites.
Maybe "low rent hotel" played some part too.
That's the point.
Just out of curiosity, what "reassignment" surgeries constitute a successful transition - and how many hormone Rxs, if used, are necessary ...
So if gender is not a social construct - and it is a physical one, what makes a "real woman"? Can (s)he be surgically constructed?
Frankly, I am more in tune with the transvestites - they don't claim to be women, they just like to dress like them - and what of women who like to dress like men?
How many surgeries and hormones does it take to "reassign" a "man" or "woman"?
I know quite well "what makes a woman" - the question is, do you? You didn't answer any of my questions - why is that?
LOL! Obviously you are using that same ole tactic of "shoot the messenger"when you wish to avoid a subject - instead of dealing with the issue raised, you malign the one raising it ... I have seen that soooo often ...
What do you think a man is?
t will be interesting to see if Glenn answers your question ....
So tell me what it is that makes you a woman ...
I'll never forget the Last Time I ever listened to Terry Gross' FRESH AIR program on NPR. It was about four years ago and she was interviewing a transgender. It said that women smell like fish. It laughed. She laughed. I tuned out.
Thank you so much, Glenn, for being a small group of well-known, outspoken people who still care about the truth, no matter where that takes you. That is what real journalists do and there are too few of them around now. When I said Rittenhouse should sue for defamation on Twitter a whole bunch of people tried to use that to get me fired. They clutched their pearls and feigned outrage because of course, Rittenhouse is a White Supremacist! Everyone knows that. Every person in this country has a right to presumption of innocence, due process, and a trial. Convicting in the court of opinion is WRONG especially when the facts are rarely complete. We're all getting just a version of the facts and much of the time they turn out to be clickbait or flat-out lies.
Living up North in non-Trump territory even the fact that Rittenhouse was toting a gun, and wrongly accused of carrying it across state lines makes him sound very Trumpish, ergo guilty. My sister-in-law and brother loath Trump. From the beginning they believed Rittenhouse was guilty and they managed to come to this decision by using all the false information available before the trial. After the trial his innocent verdict meant nothing. The democrats instilled such severe division in this country when Trump won and their Hilary lost, and cultivated an elitism which disgusts me, as well as making them feel honorable in their highly prejudicial position.
An old friend (of 55+ years) stopped talking to me for 1 1/2 years because I supported Donald Trump. After a mutual friend died, he pulled in his horns and we re-connected at the funeral. That was 3 1/2 years ago.
Although we both committed to never speaking about politics when we communicate, he has not returned my calls since the Rittenhouse verdict. I suspect the Joy Reid's and Joy Behar's of the DNC propaganda squad have gotten to him again.
The power of the media is frightening.
The same thing happened to me in 2016, and I didn't vote for Trump, but refused to vote for Clinton even though I was a registered democrat. Not an unusual thing for me to do. Hatred and abuse greeted me with a friend, my brother, and a cousin who died of cancer in 2018. He and I never spoke again since I dared institute my democratic right not to vote. He was a professor of law, but at one time a captain in the military. My dislike for Clinton was all about her love for war which he just couldn't accept, and continued to tell me my actions were putting a tyrant in the White House. Another cousin on Facebook was a registered republican most of her life, but was so repulsed by Trump and his "low life" base so her Facebook page became a hate Trump site. She managed to excuse the behavior of every republican president, but not Trump. Her fan base were all the same, well off, educated and mean. When I defended Trump while many thought he was suggesting that people drink bleach to deal with the corona virus, and my interpretation was that he was thinking of something comparable to Clorox, but a medicinal anti-viral treatment that could act in the same way to kill the Corona virus internally, one of her highly educated, rich friends told me to kill myself by drinking Clorox. I told her that I saw her statement as a threat against my life and would report her to Facebook if she made another. It worked and made her disappear. I was also called a racist in defending a policemen for stopping a young black woman for going too slow in a 60 mile an hour strip of highway. One of her friends who had many pictures on her site of her all white gated community called me a racist and gave me a list of books and videos to watch that would help me overcome. Interesting that these people always voted republican until Trump, whose base became defined by Clinton as a bunch of "deplorables." I always thought she referenced them that way to institute a divide in this country which they used to their political advantage, and that divide continues to be used by the democrats in the same prejudicial way.
It's easier to bear once it's realized that education and/or expertise in a particular field does not equal intelligence.
Thanks for your reply, but it was more about people whom I have had relationships with for so long, really extended myself for, including a younger brother, to treat me in an abusive and dismissive manner. I have degrees, but those degrees don't mean they allow me to feel better then others because they have had less opportunities. All of these people have one thing in common besides an education, they're mentality has always been elitist. They act like they're not going to die, and although they pretend to care about the less fortunate among us, they are, and I always knew it, liars in that regard.
I meant "intelligence" in the widest sense possible. When you say "their mentality has always been elitist" that immediately puts them in the non-intelligent category. Being smug about anything tags one as being stupid right there.
And when times get tough everything comes out. All of a sudden you don't recognize your neighbor or your relation. In a situation like war, for example, that'll easily cost you your life, in a wink.
Wow, I had such hope. Maybe you can suggest he actually watch the entire trial as thinking heads can then do that for themselves. Regaining his independence might be quite refreshing for him.
My best friend since I was about 11 years old (we’re both 53) and who only watches MSNBC (literally that’s all he watches) refuses to talk to me anymore. This was a guy who 20 years ago I collected from a homeless shelter in Vallejo, CA addicted to meth and brought into my home with my new wife and 4 stepdaughters and helped him kick his addiction and get back into college to finish his degree. He’s now an accountant who brags to my family members how he’s ghosted me on social media.
No good deed goes unpunished. Let's hope MSNBC implodes and he comes out of the smoke.
Only to find some other "MSNBC".
Or is it the quality of the "friendship"?
Friendships, like marriage, flow with the Tao. My pal was my right-winger when I played defense on a hockey team 50 years ago. We shared a house, briefly, and dropped acid together probably 100 times. Oh well. Does ANYTHING really matter?
We are waves in the ocean.
"My pal was my right-winger" - apparently in the wrong position. Wonder how your team was doing back then.
The double-meaning eluded me, bot! hahaha Actually, LaVeen's Golden Blades dominated the Fisher Body Hockey League from 1972 - 1975. Then, Tim Bradley had to hit some guy over the head with his hockey stick, got sued, had to sell his motorcycle, and LaVeen's Department Store got sued and dropped the sponsorship. Good times.
Unless “they” watch the trial, they are smothered inside the suffocating propaganda of the well groomed mass media & their shiny perfect white teeth.
My sister-in-law claimed she watched the trial, but since I did, I knew she got her information second hand. By the way, their sole source of news is MSNBC, and Rachel Maddow is their darling. They live in Connecticut and although she has made similar statements before, her prejudice was now on full display. She said she dislikes her neighbors, and has nothing to do with them, all republicans she said, and Trump supporters, and maybe even gun totting which motivates her to want to move. She recognizes no degree of prejudice on her part, none. Those people are really all alike and no good. She is not the only one I know who adheres to this perception, and what they all have in common is not just that they are affiliated with the democratic party, but all are well off, highly educated and even before Trump you would define them as elitists. I know quite a few people like this, and all adhere to the same perception of Trump's base. One defined them as an uneducated lot, followers and totally amoral.
Projection is a defining characteristic of the woke leftists, both as an indoctrinated psychopathology in the brainwashed herds and a deliberate tactic by the architects of this sociopathic ideology
"Accuse your opponents of doing what you yourself are doing"
Rules for Radicals
Saul Alinskey
Woke Ideology is an existential threat to Western Civilization
It was designed to cause its collapse from within
Jim
I absolutely agree and cannot stand this so called woke culture where they operate in extremes. I don't see it as an approach that will bring about change since it alienates so many. I always thought of myself as more liberal then any of those who proclaim complete loyalty to the democrats and this woke culture. I was always active politically while those who condemn me for my position sat on their asses for many a decade and did nothing. Hypocrites.
The campaign to demoralize heritage America was wildly successful.
Seems to me highly unlikely her neighbors would be Trump supporters. Maybe she likes to imagine herself distinct from them when she’s exactly like them in every way.
They have lived there for about 7 years, and before Trump she referenced her neighbor's politics as republican, but didn't make such an issue of it, but didn't like it either. They have a beautiful home in Conn as do their neighbors. You can't use logic alone to understand the Trump years, and what continues to play out. Here is the last paragraph of a letter a friend picked up from the internet and sent me via email even though I did not vote for Trump and was a registered democrat. However I didn't vote for Clinton due to her very hawkish nature. I'm very anti-war.
" It wasn't your politics I found repulsive. No, it was your willingness to support someone who spouts racism, sexism and cruelty almost every time he opens his mouth. You side with a bully when it should have mattered most and that is something I will never be able to forget. So in response to your post-election expression of hope, no, you and I won't be coming together to move forward. Obviously, the president-elect disgusts me, but it is the fact the he doesn't disgust you that will stick with me long after the election." I ended that relationship even though I knew her since we were 12 because other condemnations of me preceded this one. This is someone who would define people as winners or losers while we were growing up and continued to do so as an adult. Trump became a good scapegoat for many people, as did his base. I'm surprised they didn't send Trump and his base off into the wilderness, or maybe they did.
"It wasn't your politics I found repulsive." - followed by explaining how exactly the politics of being reasonable and staying away when called for is what she found repulsive.
I can't figure out the basis for the trust in our government. A government that puts the mentally ill in prisons/cages, borrowed Trillions to spend on a 20 year boondogle in the Middle East, is run by politicians who spend the majority of their time begging for money, eleminated all good paying jobs by outsourcing to China, claims their voters are racist and blames everyone but themselves for their failures. I can seldom discuss these issues with anyone I know since none of them read or are informed enough to engage in a meaningful discussion. Refusal to comare viewpoints seems to have become endemic The reluctance to discuss solutions for our problems has become the biggest obsticle we must overcome.
The few who govern the many, who are the easily placated complacent. I rather think we've hippies, turned yuppies, turned corporate lobbyist, podium politician's or mass maniac media spokespersons. All well compensated echo chambers. They should have inhaled; recollect president Bill C. Whatever happen to that Winter Soldier Vietnam vet attraction? John Kerry?
You may be able to sue those people, actually.
I hear Nick Sandmann has already been in touch with Kyle about pointers :-)