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We can certainly agree that your degree - if you have one - is irrelevant in this matter. To get a few actual facts - those pesky buggers again - read the studies quoted in The Madness Of Crowds: Gender, Race & Identity, by Douglas Murray <https://www.amazon.ca/Madness-Crowds-Gender-Race-Identity/dp/1635579988/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=TBI4KOT1ZU46&keywords=the+madness+of+crowds&qid=1654483641&s=books&sprefix=the+madness+of+crowds%2Cstripbooks%2C168&sr=1-1> You see, dearie, it has been established beyond any RATIONAL doubt that everyone's sex is biologically determined. (Gender may be partially otherwise to a greater or lesser degree.) And your vicious claim that pointing this fact out is "basically like saying that if you were born with a penis you should commit rape total impunity" reveals your likewise vicious and rancorous misandry. I challenge you to provide factual opposition to my claims based on the science, not whatever pseudo-science your Wimmin's Studies courses have told you.
you should be the most enraged. They're using you as a sack of meat to feel better about themselves. I'm old enough to remember gay activists fighting to say that homosexuality was not a deviation but an orientation present from birth. Imagine how buffled would they be if they knew that today LGBT allies are pushing the "fluid sexuality" narrative (allow me to advise you to read this book on the matter: https://www.amazon.com/Madness-Crowds-Gender-Race-Identity/dp/1635579988/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1641328706&sr=8-1).
And let me guess,
>people’s freedom of identity and expression.
but only if it complies with the narrative, right? Or maybe you're a based libleft, idk.
Haven't watched it yet but I suppose he's promoting his book The Madness of Crowds, which was pretty damn entertaining tbh, especially the Audible version narrated by Murray himself.
I guess the biggest impression I got from the book was that minority groups are being used as battering rams for leftist ideology. A quaint example was when Peter Thiel was declared not gay after showing support for Trump.
Like any religion, wokeness understands the need to convert children. The old Jesuit motto (sometimes attributed to Voltaire) was, after all, “Give me the child for the first seven years and I will give you the man.” And so I was moved but not particularly surprised by George Packer’s tale of a progressive school banishing separate restrooms for boys and girls because this reinforces the gender binary. The school did not inform parents of this, of course:
>Parents only heard about it when children started arriving home desperate to get to the bathroom after holding it in all day. Girls told their parents mortifying stories of having a boy kick open their stall door. Boys described being afraid to use the urinals. Our son reported that his classmates, without any collective decision, had simply gone back to the old system, regardless of the new signage: Boys were using the former boys’ rooms, girls the former girls’ rooms. This return to the familiar was what politicians call a “commonsense solution.” It was also kind of heartbreaking.
As an analogy for the price of progressivism, it’s close to perfect. Authorities impose an ideology onto reality; reality slowly fights back. The question is simply how much damage is done by this kind of utopianism before it crumbles under its own weight. Simple solutions — like a separate, individual gender-neutral bathroom for the tiny minority with gender dysphoria or anyone else — are out of bounds. They are, after all, reinforcing the idea that girls and boys are different. And we cannot allow biology, evolution, reproductive strategy, hormones, chromosomes, and the customs of every single human culture since the beginning of time to interfere with “social justice.”
It’s also vital to expose children to the fact of their race as the core constituent of their identity. Here is an essay written by a woke teacher about the difficulty of teaching “White boys”:
>I spend a lot of my days worried about White boys. I worry about White boys who barely try and expect to be rewarded, who barely care and can’t stand being called on it, who imagine they can go through school without learning much without it impacting in any way the capacity for their future success, just because it never has before.
This sounds to me as if he is describing, well, boys of any race. And when boys are labeled as “White” (note the capital “W”) and this requires specific rules not applied to nonwhite boys, they often — surprise! — don’t like it:
>This week, a student spoke up in class to say that every time a particular writer talked about White people and their role in racism, he would start to feel really guilty, and it made him not want to listen … I try to keep an arm around the boys who most need it, but it’s hard, because I’m also not willing to give an inch on making my room safe for my students of color. It’s not their job to keep hurting while White boys figure it out.
Children, in other words, are being taught to think constantly about race, and to feel guilty if they are the wrong one. And, of course, if they resist, that merely proves the point. A boy who doesn’t think he is personally responsible for racism is merely reflecting “white fragility” which is a function of “white supremacy.” QED. No one seems to have thought through the implications of telling white boys that their core identity is their “whiteness,” or worried that indoctrinating kids into white identity might lead quite a few to, yes, become “white identitarians” of the far right.
One of the key aspects about social-justice theory is that it’s completely unfalsifiable (as well as unreadable); it’s a closed circle that refers only to itself and its own categories. (For a searing take down of this huge academic con, check out Douglas Murray’s superb new book, <em>The Madness of Crowds</em>.) The forces involved — “white supremacy,” “patriarchy,” “heterosexism” — are all invisible to the naked eye, like the Holy Spirit. Their philosophical origins — an attempt by structuralist French philosophers to rescue what was left of Marxism in the 1960s and 1970s — are generally obscured in any practical context. Like religion, you cannot prove any of its doctrines empirically, but children are being forced into believing them anyway. This is hard, of course, as this teacher explains: “I’m trying. I am. But you know how the saying goes: You can lead a White male to anti-racism, but you can’t make him think.”
The racism, sexism, and condescension in those sentences! (The teacher, by the way, is not some outlier. In 2014, he was named Minnesota’s Teacher of the Year!) Having taken one form of religion out of the public schools, the social-justice left is now replacing it with the doctrines of intersectionality.
No, es sumamente dificil hacer un argumento completo en un comentario de reddit, pero te dejo un par de libro para que los leas.
OP, The “gay” question is less than settled scientificly. I would suggest the excellent book by Douglass Murray: The Madness of crowds.
https://www.amazon.com/Madness-Crowds-Gender-Race-Identity/dp/1635579988
We can always listen to whomever talking about whatever proclivity you want however kids need to protected from grooming.
You can see with shows like this how Floridian parents can be upset:
That certainly it can make one pause about the same message in school.
Douglas Murray has a great book on that
I get it though, thinking is hard and it's often easier to let others do it for you https://www.amazon.com/Madness-Crowds-Gender-Race-Identity/dp/1635579988?ref_=d6k_applink_bb_marketplace
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Jonathan Van Maren interviews Douglas Murray. What’s it called when you do the same interview over and over and expect a different result? <em>The Madness of Crowds.</em>
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