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Modern Victimology
In media coverage of the Nashville shooting, and now in a Madonna trans-advocacy event, we are seeing something resembling sympathy for the killer. | @NoahCRothman https://t.co/2lXEh9oYwC
— National Review (@NRO) April 4, 2023
The extreme lack of curiosity about the political ideology of the Nashville shooter, and what role that ideology may have played in motivating the massacre, is very conspicuous, but not at all surprising.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 30, 2023
Highlighting the shooter's ideology is often the primary media framework: https://t.co/ydZGU2CfYg
Washington Post: It's terrible that someone would exploit a tragedy for political gain.
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) March 30, 2023
Also the Washington Post: Let's exploit this tragedy for political gain. pic.twitter.com/hXJsruUrrf
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And this:
Remember, they're vulnerable and marginalized and are just fighting for the right to exist…no power or privilege here… https://t.co/FNK03vupBC
— Chad Felix Greene (@chadfelixg) April 7, 2023
Imagine if the roles were reversed and a group of white, conservatives ambushed someone within the LGBTQ community, physically assaulted them, and held them for ransom for 3 hrs…
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) April 8, 2023
There would be arrests and repercussions for the perpetrators and administration who allowed this.
This is utterly inexcusable. I'm tired of how the debate over political violence always devolves into who's worse. Condemn it all. None of it is justified. https://t.co/OfWESRTvft
— David French (@DavidAFrench) April 7, 2023
And now this!
"A suspected trans-identified mass shooter has been arrested in Colorado after authorities discovered plans to carry out multiple attacks, including on three schools and an undisclosed number of churches." https://t.co/IweC8kurP9
— CultureWatch (@IndeGayForum) April 7, 2023
Where is the other Tranifesto?https://t.co/XzbLRZgbeu
— Jim Hanson (@JimHansonDC) April 7, 2023
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Nashville
Two Views
More TQ+ Community members complaining about the misgendering and even saying it was logical for them to start turning violent…
— Brian 🇺🇸🏳️🌈 (@Psy_Brian) March 27, 2023
They WANT violence. They’ve been doing it daily for some time & always blame the victims.
Just proving this is a total lack of mental healthcare. pic.twitter.com/OUN859FA4y
I refuse to blame an entire community or ideological movement for the heinous actions of an individual. It’s demagogic, divisive, and unfair. And it’s precisely what far too many on the Left do, instantly, whenever an atrocity occurs, irrespective of the facts. Toxic.
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) March 28, 2023
Added: I respect Guy Benson’s advice to be cautious about widespread blame, but I also don’t think we should ignore that the shooting happened amid calls by activists for action to stop “genocide” against trans people, including the recently enacted Tennessee law banning puberty blockers and transition surgery for minors.
More: Twitter is now blocking tweets showing trans activists’ calls for violence, including gun violence. While understandable, this move obscures how extreme some of these activists are.
We watched trans activists promise a “Day of Vengeance” to stop “violence” and “genocide” against the trans community.
— Chad Felix Greene (@chadfelixg) March 28, 2023
This shooter targeted a church and Christian school on Trans Awareness Week, immediately after legislation passed that activists call ‘genocidal.’
This kind of rhetoric is so common it’s not longer shocking (but should be):
If they would have succeeded in pulling @ThePosieParker to the ground do you really think they would have stopped? #LetWomenSpeakAuckland pic.twitter.com/c5YRuo6X0l
— Ani O’Brien (@aniobrien) March 26, 2023
I don’t like having to share posts like these but we can’t pretend that these messages aren’t being spread by extremists.
Added: Shaking my head over this captured tweet from Arizona Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs’ press secretary, posted just hours after the shooting (original removed by Twitter, understandably). Added: Press Secretary Josselyn Berry resigned on Wednesday, two days after the shooting. Why wasn’t she fired, or at least suspended, immediately after her vile post went up?
And via Log Cabin Republicans:
Still more.
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Challenging Sex and Gender Obfuscation
Newspeak watch: "gender expansive youth". It means gay boys and girls being prepped for trans identity. https://t.co/4fycQOQNoq
— Andrew Sullivan (@sullydish) March 27, 2023
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Thoughts on ‘Woke’
Added: After sharing the linked stories below, I’ve come across discussions arguing there’s no such thing as “woke” and it’s all right-wing fear-mongering. That’s disingenuous in the extreme, so here’s my off-the-cuff definition:
“Woke” is a constellation of academic social justice theories put into practice, including the equity agenda of assigning outcomes based on identity group membership (DEI, or diversity, equity, inclusion); prioritizing climate change strategies in the management of business and retirement investments (ESG, or environment, social and governance issues); critical race theory (CRT) that characterizes U.S. and Western history as primarily driven by white racism; critical gender theory (CGT) that includes advocating medical transitioning for gender-nonconforming minors; and similar progressive nostrums embraced and promulgated by elite professionals and media.
Please don’t do this. Critical Social Justice (wokeness) must be able to be critiqued as an approach to addressing injustices/prejudices/imbalances in society in the same way that socialism and liberalism can. This is essential for several reasons. (cont) https://t.co/68f31OoxKD
— Helen Pluckrose (@HPluckrose) March 17, 2023
1) No political worldview or ethical framework for improving social equality is ever going to get everything right and most of them are going to get very many things wrong. Self-correction is impossible if all dissent is read as hatred of minorities.
— Helen Pluckrose (@HPluckrose) March 17, 2023
The evidence is now overwhelming that recent panics around climate, race, and sex — the mass desire to conform to a strict moral (Woke) code — stem from a) the acute need of liberal secular people for purpose, b) rising loneliness, and c) mass anxiety created by social media. pic.twitter.com/RnPEkVYHhH
— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) March 27, 2023
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What Now, Gay Men & Lesbians?
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Conservatives, Progressives, and Transgenderism
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Fresh Takes on ‘Drag Queen Story Hours’
Not “groomers” and shouldn’t be outlawed. But let’s not pretend activists don’t have an agenda for promoting DQSH.
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The New Mission
Organizations that were once at the forefront of the movement for gay and lesbian rights and social inclusion have morphed into something very different, following the achievement of legal equality for gays and lesbians, and for transgender people. In keeping with fashionable progressive-left trends, they’re now onboard with the war on the gender binary.
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The Misogyny Behind ‘Curing’ Femaleness
“Lifesaving gender affirmating care” https://t.co/5fChmgcm8H
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) March 1, 2023