Understanding ‘Useful Idiocy’

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And more of Alexander’s examples:

Ideology is how useful idiots know what to think about things they don’t understand. Perhaps “From the river to the sea” sounds poetic to the “Free Palestine” activist, but ask them which river and which sea and you’ll likely get a blank stare. It’s the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea, of course, but the point is that chanting the slogan effectively calls for the elimination of Israel and its people. It’s a bit genocidal when you think about it, which they don’t.
“Trans women are women” works in the same way. It’s not a claim about biological reality but an unfalsifiable redefinition of the word woman. It also functions as a sort of loyalty oath. Ask for a definition of woman, and it quickly falls apart. That’s because slogans are engineered to short-circuit thought and leave reason at the door.

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What We’re Up Against

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“Jack of Shadows,” the handle of a gay man who worked in sexual health and HIV prevention in a midsize Northeastern U.S. city, shares his story via LGB Courage Coalition:

My STI testing booth at the Pride festival was overrun by obviously autistic women on testosterone, so-called “trans children,” their very proud parents, all manner of Queers for Palestine, and, of course, Furries. This parade of mentally confused kids, oblivious parents, and—Furries—was just too strange to ignore. I often say that gender ideology is a mile wide but paper thin. Once you see it for what it is, you can’t unsee it. And I had seen too much. …

My advisor, a child-maternal health expert with a PhD in epidemiology, was censored by journal editors when she submitted papers using “controversial” words such as “mother” or “woman.” If she refused to use preferred terms such as “birthing person,” “uterus haver,” or my least favorite, “chest feeder,” her reputation and employment would be endangered. In secret, we vented our disgust at these dehumanizing, dystopian terms that the public health sector had so rapidly embraced. …

As [a required training] ended, I politely pointed out that “trans men” have different concerns than men do. Women who believe they are gay men are still women with all of the same sexual and reproductive concerns women have (pregnancy, cervical health). Furthermore, sex matters when it comes to infectious disease. … When I carefully, painstakingly pointed this out—like walking on eggshells—the pushback was swift and severe. …

I entered this field because, as a Gen X gay man who lived through the AIDS crisis, I wanted to help others in a way the generation before me had not. … Yet the moment I questioned the dogma, even privately, I was pushed out of the field I had dedicated almost a decade of my life to.


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Tragic:

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‘Youth Gender Medicine’ Is Driven by Ideology (and Profits)

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And:



Appalling, but true. Mia Hughes recounts: “[N]o one expresses any concern about allowing young people to sacrifice their fertility and their sexual function before their old enough to understand what that means, because ‘first, do no harm’ has no place in their ideological quest.”



People of conscience are organizing and fighting back against the new gender ideology:

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The Beginning of the End of Enforced Gender Ideology Insanity?

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The Wall Street Journal does with other legacy media won’t, by publishing an in-depth report on the growing numbers of gay men and lesbians speaking out against gender-identity ideology, including the transing of gender-nonconforming, same-sex attracted and proto-gay kids.

It’s a hopeful sign, to be sure. And yet, depressingly, LGBTQ+ advocacy groups and media remain bastions of “queer theory” gender insanity. Even online forums such as Facebook groups, including those purporting to be for gay men, are full of heretic hunters who loudly denounce in the most vile terms anyone who dares express an opinion that deviates from the approved LGBTQ+ transgender orthodoxy.



And this:



Meanwhile, could the “queer” left possibly become more demented? Apparently, yes:

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Was TQ+ Surge a Fad or Contagion?

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A 4 percent rate of trans self-identification for American college students is still ridiculously high.




Stop the celebration?


Prof. Kaufmann discusses his report:



Related and worth repeating:

His high school “gay-straight alliance,” instead of focusing on homophobia and acceptance of being gay, promoted transitioning for students who were gender nonconforming. In college, he became further immersed in the gender-transition ideology pushed by faculty and supported by administrators.



Lauren Leggierico, co-executive director of the LGB Courage Coalition, tells Mariah Burton Nelson: >>Gay functions nowadays are mostly trans. You go to a lesbian party – and it’s not even called a lesbian party. It’s called a queer women’s party. There’s no one under thirty that looks like me: gender nonconforming. They are all medicalized. They’re all “trans men.”<< https://strongerwomen.substack.com/p/when-girls-who-would-have-been-lesbians

– Stephen Henry Miller

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Democrats Engage in Yet Another Smear Campaign Against an Openly Gay GOP Rival

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Post-Election Update:

Openly gay Republican John Reid ran a strong race and fought the good fight in his bid for lieutenant governor, but the immense concentration of federal government employees in northern Virginia makes it tough going for statewide GOP candidates in the best of circumstances, and, sadly, Winsome Earle-Sears was a weak candidate for the governorship against well-financed and slick “fake moderate” Abigail Spanberger.

Reid was defeated for lieutenant governor by Ghazala Hashmi, a far-left leaning nonentity who repeatedly refused to debate Reid and only agreed to softball interviews with liberal media.

Spanberger, who voted the straight Democratic party line as a Congressmember, marching in strict lockstep with Nancy Pelosi and then Hakeem Jefferies, is now indebted to party progressives. The teachers’ unions will gain more protection against having to actually, you know, teach, while student achievement again declines. She’ll bring higher taxes to fund more unnecessary and wasteful spending that goes to favored constituencies, which then funnel funds back to the party. And more gerrymandering to ensure that only progressives Democrats can be elected to the state legislature in Richmond and to Congress.

So, more decline while the self-satisfied northern Virginia elites and government rent-seekers celebrate their victory. All so sad.

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